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Sentence Examples We can only conjure up the ghosts of the past through our fragmented memories. Instead, the words conjure up unpleasant memories of mom's experimental eggplant lasagna and certain rubber-like meat substitutes. Yet he will conjure a few bars in the minor where possible and darken textures by shunting to the subdominant. As one laved one's chest one could conjure up images of bowler hats on the coat rack, well-thumbed Police Gazettes, shoe polish and cigars. The curving paths and ramps conjure up images of a Tuscany landscape as they rise towards the visitors center. We have an innate tendency to avoid pain, and therefore we are apt to conjure up rationalizations that justify our behavior. He loads the film with pitch black comedy, giving it a rich texture that most filmmakers wouldn't be able to conjure up. Yet somehow that book failed to conjure up a sense of Godwin as a fully rounded human being. Slowly the other sorceresses and magicians had reclaimed some of the colors, but they were rare and hard to conjure. The end effect is meant to conjure up the sonority of the saz, an instrument used in traditional Turkish music. They take pleasure in tall ceilings, which conjure images of banquets and feasting, and waiters with aprons wrapped around their bellies. I don't think I can conjure up the kind of detail required out of thin air. The show was able to conjure up serious and meaningful drama, and could absolutely rock the house when it chose to. Later presidents tried to revive it to conjure up domestic support for their beleaguered policies. The sheer multitude of vocal tones that a gifted mimic like Roth is able to conjure up is extraordinary. His wheels are so thick and full beneath his dense torso that they conjure up images of monster truck tires on a Jeep. No longer stuck playing the perennial gentleman, he is now able to conjure up something far more morally ambiguous. Of course Blair can't just conjure up a new Blitz spirit to suit his newfound focus on homeland security. It could also be that the blowsiness of the horns conjure up a steamy Southern atmosphere. She explains that she actually did conjure imps and demons, but was only responsible for a few of the sorcerous murders she was accused of. Show More Sentences When I observed the white houses and bungalows, it would conjure images of people riding in horses. Clara said the last word with as much spite and disgust as she could conjure. Some of his set pieces can conjure a more vivid image in the mind's eye than the surviving works of art themselves. Public works immediately conjure up visions of roads and bridges that exist only on paper. On day three, while debating how best to conjure a satisfying lunch solely from superfoods, I had a quick off-piste cheese-and-pickle sandwich. Slender of thigh and elfin of feature, she proceeds to conjure up a world in which haute couture is seamlessly entwined with high culture. Moreover, large, one-off payments for single books do not immediately conjure up the image of an ongoing, committed publishing relationship. The words conjure up images of a harmless toy, something given as a stocking filler at Christmas. In that, he is the true heir to Yves Saint Laurent, who could conjure up surrealism without looking a fool. The mysterious concatenations variously conjure Cycladic totems and Greek herms as well as works by Picasso and Ernst. Both tracks conjure compelling images of the sun and warmth with their distinctive, distortion-cloaked guitar styles. No sophistry and no syllogisms can conjure away this inevitable consequence of inflation. I'm trying to conjure up the good-fairy presence, trying to get her to pay attention to me. This is another one of these stupid columns that has to conjure up hypotheticals in order to criticize. Her lover and co-conspirator Aaron is played with consummate skill by Guy Burgess, a name to conjure with as regards this role. Undaunted, Channel 4 is persisting with the idea that you can conjure up magical profits from the frilly sleeves of cyberspace. Many of the verses harp on the illicit and conjure a false world where women are mistresses and men, philanderers. To conjure power, a medieval alchemist would enclose himself in a magic circle filled with geometric pictograms symbolizing inner realities. By the time he rocked up, his image wasn't sufficient to conjure the usual assignations of friendship and filiation. Likewise, you have made the mistake of provoking us to use and conjure the spirits that we had held back until now. Show More Sentences Using 200-year-old legislation, he was convicted of pretending to conjure up spirits. Using cracked linen as a surface, she painted motifs that conjure up images of Italian frescoes while simulating the effects of time and weather. She explains about her seven dead children and how she sent her daughter to conjure the spirits of the dead. It's strange, given the amount of time the authors have spent around kids, that they haven't managed to conjure a memorable child character. Remarkably, if they could conjure a win, they would then have managed to take more points off Celtic than the rest of the SPL clubs put together. When asked to explain what this means, the students conjure up images of older kids hassling younger ones. This is just a figment of the imagination of weak minds that conjure up images to provide solace when they cannot handle reality, she continued. When his mind chose to conjure up images, it presented every possible situation he could ever hate. However, her pictures are not about the romantic images that these conjure up, but focus on the world they transport the viewer too. Its glossy pages and colourful pictures conjure up the image of a veritable paradise. The mournful undertones of this track conjure a sense of loss, perhaps for ancestors, perhaps for all passing. This very word would seem to conjure up a sense of community, of shared experience. The word will conjure up memories of previous occasions where the player has been aggressive and successfully overcome a challenge. To Britons of the right age, those three words conjure up all sorts of semi-nostalgic memories. In terms of womanhood, the words conjure up something, well, unflatteringly female. Hence I can't be objective about this extraordinary game, which appeared so magically, and allows me to conjure such fine memories. One of his strategies is to test whether a word can conjure up a complex idea. In some ways, the most interesting story is that of the leader, Muntz, not a name to conjure with but an intriguing player all the same. However, this is what made it a name to conjure with, as far as young Japanese are concerned. Other writers on the centre left say that it is no longer a name to conjure with when trying to persuade their readers of anything at all. Show More Sentences Movies are magic because they conjure powerful emotions from light, forms, sound, and play-acting. They conjure up images of dusty old offices, arcane inventions and oddball inventors. Despite their formalistic qualities, the collages conjure up pleasing associations. It is impossible for me to conjure up the words to adequately describe my own experiences. Of course, poor Neville does conjure nasty associations with cowardice and pusillanimity. Shifting away from the dim hopes of my rescue, I conjure up a series of bright memories that bring me a tidal change of emotion. Each week she invites a celebrity guest to conjure up their fantasy dinner party. Note that this is exponentially worse than the Manning Henkel problem, since there are not two but four dissyllables to conjure with. Another way to conjure a time and place is with wood furniture that has patina. Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning. Does the idea of touring conjure up exciting images of places to see and new foods and adventures to experience in foreign lands? Can't for the life of me conjure up a complaint or a whinge, nothing to rant about. The manager was satisfied that his side attempted to conjure something, as has been their wont since the season began. I mean, those things were not too hard for a magical all-powerful guy like you to conjure up. The semi-conscious bride and the manipulative groom pulling up to a Las Vegas wedding chapel drive-in did not conjure up images of a fairy tale romance. If by any chance this paper should be still undestroyed and should fall into your hands, I conjure you, by all you hold sacred, to hurl it into the fire. To anybody who has ever endured a caravan holiday in Ireland, mobile homes will always conjure up images of laminate interiors, chintzy furnishings and Travel Scrabble. It is a time when the very mention of witches, gnomes, hobgoblins and ogres is enough to conjure up a fantasy world populated with a multitude of such creatures. The Rambagh seems to effortlessly have the sense of a refuge and idyll that luxury hotels the world over try so hard to conjure. For visitors following the marked trail that leads around the battlefield, its powerful aura helps conjure up the tableaux that unfolded over a hundred years ago. Show More Sentences Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies. I was a little glum at the thought of walking back up but it's wonderful what the promise of a farmhouse lunch can conjure up in the way of fortitude. All of us can readily conjure up horror scenarios by the isolated person acting badly. But this woman has committed to memory all the essentials of her own physiognomy, and can conjure up, time and again, her own basic likeness without resorting to a mirror. You're a cool girl, so conjure up some confidence and just be yourself. Beach plums, about the size and color of purple grapes, make a tasty, unusual jam and, for many New Englanders, conjure up summers spent on Cape Cod. Some comments really do conjure hybrid cities and mixed realities. He poured his heart out in soaring songs of praise, in searing prayers, in sublime thanksgiving, in words infinitely more exalted than any I could conjure up. Politicians should have more regard for the complexity they conjure up with each new wave of legislation, which creates a breeding ground for fraud and sharp practice. White, cream and wintry pale beige hues in conjunction with sheepskin, polar skin, shaggy furs and plenty of quilts conjure up polar expedition gear. He says Scotland in Europe seems still to conjure up something of a distant challenge and this is despite the Scots' long-standing reputation for internationalism. But what a translation of Mercier lacks is the vanity of style that those masters conjure up. The intricate, multiangled vectors of ductwork, scaffolding, lattices, building cranes and raw beams conjure a kind of teeming energy field with light at its core. Add into the mix up-and-coming chasers like Our Vic and Lord Sam, plus the inevitable two or three dark horses, and you have plenty of names with which to conjure. Only playmakers of real class can conjure magic out of thin air. The blue morpho family of butterflies, from the rainforests of Central and South America, catch the light in their wings to conjure dazzling displays. Not that he has anything to be bitter about, but this game did nothing but emphasize the unbelievable amounts of ownage he is able to conjure against his parent team. Taking the mickey out of modern dance, they conjure up moves by all the greats, starting with Isadora Duncan swanning around the Louvre and ending in a symphony of blue. While for some, video games conjure up the image of the socially withdrawn and uncommunicative male, the milieu of video games is intensely social. Nine times out of ten, it will conjure up an image of a brooding, sweaty, long-haired hunk. Show More Sentences Far from an image one would readily conjure up as a waltz, La Valse's sexually provocative choreography was reminiscent of Glen Tetley's lascivious Rite of Spring. Modeling wax is great fun as children use the warmth of their hands to shape pieces of wax into animals, figures or whatever their imaginations conjure. However, they only managed to conjure this up by jiggery-pokery. The painter's orphic sleight of hand was abetted by arcane titles that conjure profligate aristocrats, sexual libertines, adepts of the dark arts and drugged esthetes. Tough as it may be to conjure, even dentists report that their patients are confiding when their mouths are unencumbered. Performing with Weird Al was as much as a dream come true as I think I could conjure. In this case, however, Republicans would have to conjure three such circumstances, a plain instance of obstructionism. I put my hands on the keyboard like on the planchette of a Ouija Board hoping to conjure something. When you say design, some folks conjure up images of la-di-da characters with long silk scarves flurrying about pointing out how atrocious or marvelous everything looks. The artists responsible for the works and for dimming lights, Stanikas, conjure up the ghosts of Lithuanian and Soviet past and of the difficult transition. Their imaginations must be feverish enough to conjure up ever more daring flights of fancy, but then cold enough to try to annihilate their own creations. The Plantagenets wanted him christened Henry after his grandfather, but Constance named him Arthur for the legendary King Arthur, a name to conjure with among the Bretons. Our bad guy is Weather Wizard, who not only looks like Kurt Cobain but can use his palms to conjure angry storms. The device can also conjure up alternative routes to bypass roadworks and traffic jams, and will quickly get motorists back on course if they take a wrong turning. The green, blue and yellow collections, with their combination of fresh floral prints and earthy woven checks conjure up images of rural Tuscan living. When people think of building demolition, they almost invariably conjure up visions of spectacular implosions with large buildings collapsing in seconds. In their writing, wannabe journalists conjure some astonishing images. Yorkston apologises profusely for only playing six songs, but while the set seems a little truncated, he still manages to conjure up some moments of real magic. Collectively they conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic, hankering after its own lost origins. And here I note the inition of my Lords friendship with Mountjoy, which the Queen her self did then conjure. Show More Sentences She seems, in every sense that the phrase can conjure, out of time. Participants are encouraged to join in on the art by lighting up with glow sticks, LEDs and anything else their imagination can conjure up. The effects of the rain conjure up the romantic yearning of the monsoon season, a theme that dominates Indic poetry. The golden honey colour, rich Fendi heritage and exquisite packaging conjure up images of Rome, La Dolce Vita and an A-list lifestyle. In these stories, desai casts her gaze backward to conjure a fading era. Other names to conjure with include Sticky Mouse-ear, Wurzell's Mugwort, and Scarlet Pimpernel. More than half cannot make a Caesar salad and 63 per cent are unable to conjure up a Greek salad. The stars conjure profound images of the place of a single man, no matter how heroic, in the perspective of the entire cosmos. Readers will conjure up many a conjecture over who's who in this literary gallery. Its length and grim message might conjure images of four forlorn goth Wannabes, or four death metal scowlers. Back then, my ideas of daredeviltry did not conjure up the taking of my black body into a roadside luncheonette for a forbidden cup of coffee. The name may conjure up images of a pouting, raven-haired songstress with a penchant for extravagant shopping, but you'd be wrong. Debates about cloning conjure up images of designer babies or a frightening future populated by people who are the exact replica of each other. Sure, fruity Pebbles doesn't necessarily conjure up warm holiday memories. No one gets named Larry anymore. It's had it as a name. Think of someone called Larry and you automatically conjure up a guy drinking beer in a sixties rec room. Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. The aroma of cistuses instantly conjures up the Mediterranean so if you have a great holiday somewhere growing a plant from your destination may conjure up happy memories. To the uninitiated and prejudiced this may conjure up images of kitsch Americana, rhinestone studded crimplene suits and a generally unappealing stereotype. Director Jo Davies and her team conjure up an impeccable sense of comic nostalgia, with Victorian disappearing acts and some seriously frivolous costumery. Mention the words 'spaghetti western' and 'Sergio Leone' together and your internal jukebox is likely to conjure up that famously haunting signature tune. Show More Sentences To get in the mood conjure up images from those 1930s Hollywood sirens who draped themselves slinkily across satincovered couches in romantic boudoirs. Examples from Classical Literature What defines them is the function, not the meaning they might conjure in a communicational context. By what extraordinary process does Comstockery conjure decency into the stomach and indecency into the bowels? I conjure you, by the angel that is in you, during that time come no more to my sight! Seed time and harvest, as old as the procreant earth and as new as the latest sunrise, are his to conjure. It was believed that the initiated could conjure up the river horse by shaking a magic bridle over the pool wherein it dwelt. I conjure you, let me keep my confession of faith to myself! She was struggling with recollection, and endeavoring to conjure it. Mr. fitch's name was one with which to conjure in the Gordon household. I conjure you by that which you profess, hower you come to know it. Romance was not dead, and the Spanish Main was a name to conjure with. Able to conjure the chattily cosmopolitan tone of his closest progenitor, he also shared with O'Hara an innately musical ear. Listen as Sian Phillips and Robert Powell conjure up a host of quirky French characters, created by the writer Colette. Tight and fittingly characterful, Chalifour's playing was exactly what was needed to conjure the mysterious East. I try in vain to conjure up a panoramic view of the neighborhood. From that fateful day, April 25, Anzac has been a name to conjure with. I conjure you by that which you profess, answer me to what I ask you. Each possessed a name with which to conjure in the world of science. But pray, Colonel, how came you to conjure out that I should be in town today? Speak, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, I conjure thee, by this symbol of our Holy Order. But the actors also dart skilfully between various characters at breakneck speed to conjure up a colourful story of a whole Scouse night out. Show More Sentences They often speculated over his past, and tried to conjure up what his northland life had been. We didn't have no voodoo women nor conjure folks at our 20 acres. These photogravures conjure fragmentary worlds that lie between memories and reality. It's a curious double picture, if one could but conjure it up. Ariel is a whirlwind of African body art, the spirts who conjure up illusions are huge African totems and even the tempest takes on the form of a creature as a giant serpent. Perhaps some of my readers conjure up horrible visions of such a place. For, coz, since all thoughts are things, you have but to think a pair of herrings, and then conjure up a pottle of milk wherewith to wash them down. The reflection seemed to conjure into sadness his irritated feelings. Gareth Shoulder, or stage name Just G, has been filmed showing off his card trick talents and his ability to conjure money out of thin air in Liverpool One. Pilate, the famous literary midwife in Toni Morrison s Song of Solomon, functions as conjure woman, healer, mother, sister, necessary pariah, and caretaker of the community. It all seems fine and dandy in principal, but how many start-ups are able to conjure up shares to the tune of several thousand pounds at the very least? This unique cultural program combines dramatic storytelling, traditional music and painting to conjure up a revealing image of Baba Yaga, the wicked witch of Russia. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of conjure? Words that rhyme with conjure What is the past tense of conjure? What is the plural of conjure? What is the adjective for conjure? What is the noun for conjure? Translations for conjure Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words conjurations conjuration conjunto conjunctures conjuncture conjuncts conjured conjured up conjurer conjurers conjures conjure up 7-letter Words Starting With c co con conj conju conjur