And like the characters in her best-selling Harry Potter series, British writer Rowling possesses magical powers.
Expectations are so high that even hard-boiled Wall Street types are now ascribing magical powers to Steve Jobs.
Last year, Emma's third-grade class performed on stage a well-known Chinese classic featuring a monkey with magical powers.
People who've fled the Mai Mai say they're ruthless rebels with magical powers.
She was a powerful lady who had magical powers with that umbrella.
However, hotels around the Rtanj mountain in Serbia, a site rumoured to have magical powers, were booked out for the big date.
The irony is that a fascination with verbiage risks luring Republicans into the same delusion that once snared Mr Obama, namely a belief in the magical powers of presidential speech.
Blitzed by the chaos, you may not notice just how much the movie cheats: Hud, for instance, appears to be editing as he goes, and his camera possesses magical powers of endurance.
Tight stealth mechanics and excellent melee combat, combined with an array of magical powers, make Corvo a formidable assassin, though some of the powers feel more useful than others which some balancing could help even out.
Another of their important functions, according to Celtic tales and mythologies, was they were able to exhibit a range of magical powers, such as divination and prophesy, healing, levitation, shapechanging and they could even control the weather.
Does Rupert Murdoch have magical powers?
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We need to remember this structure because innovation is being discussed today as if the speaker just discovered something rare, something with the same magical powers that the oil of a snake was supposed to have over aching joints.
So far, these efforts have perpetuated or even exacerbated the problem, because almost all of them simply reinforce our beliefs about the magical disinhibiting powers of alcohol.
If you ever watched a magician perform when you were a child (or even as an adult), you know just how magical their powers can seem to be.
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Taking that world and trying to shoehorn it into a world where flying aliens shoot heat beams out of their eyes, magical princesses have powers and gifts given to them by mythologial gods, with monsters invading Earth from outer space, is just not going to work.
Partly things go wrong because of magical plot devices that allow The Governor to have super powers of detection and zombie fighting.
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