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talisman
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護身符
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–noun
1. a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet (避邪物) or charm.
2. any amulet or charm.
3. anything whose presence exercises a remarkable or powerful influence on human feelings or actions.
"10 Things I Hate About You'' is inspired, in a sortuva kinduva way, by Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew,'' in the same sense that "Starship Troopers'' was inspired by "Titus Andronicus.''
It doesn't remake Shakespeare so much as [evoke] him as a talisman, by setting its story at Padua High School, naming its characters Stratford and Verona, making one of the heroines a shrew, etc. There is even a scene where the shrew is assigned to rewrite a Shakespeare sonnet.
liturgical
thaumaturgical
sorcerer
If John’s illness resembles the [curse] put on Sleeping Beauty by an evil [sorcerer],
incantation
The attractions of impromptu ritual are [a] constant in Me and You, in the incantatory [recitations] Christine records for her videos
repetitious wordiness to conceal a lack of content, obfuscation
Her prose too often resorts to [incantation].
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