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Magic has to do with making things happen in ways that are not physical, and might be called supernatural. The fairy god mother used magic to turn mice into horses. The Order of the Golden Dawn claimed to practice Christian magic. A kind of entertainment that uses tricks to make it look like impossible things have happened. He pulled rabbit out of a hat at the magic show, then he cut someone in half and put them back together alive. (He didn't do these things, but made it look like he did; the speaker knows that.) Anything wonderful, beautiful, or very special. Love is the greatest magic of all. Imagination is part of the magic of childhood.

magic

any art that invokes supernatural powers (= charming, magical, witching, wizard, wizardly) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers charming incantations magic signs that protect against adverse influence a magical spell 'tis now the very witching time of night — Shakespeare wizard wands wizardly powers (= magic trick) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

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Simple sentences

I wish I could use magic.
Friendship is magic.
You don't have to fear magic.
The prince was turned by magic into a frog.
I am an eager student of magic.
The drug acts like magic.
My cousin is good at doing magic tricks.
I was aware of the trick in this magic.
Magic plays an important part in primitive society.
He amused the children by showing them some magic.
He knows many amusing magic tricks.
Not every lamp is magic.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
This ring is a magic item that gives great power to its user.
He impressed me with his magic tricks.
The girl vanished like magic.
The wizard waved his magic wand and disappeared into thin air.
Tom knows a few magic tricks.
The curves of her lips possess something magic.
There's something magic about the nightfall.

Movie subtitles

Who would have thought I'd have this magic touch?
Well what type of. voodoo magic is that?!
No, like, they-they dance together at a ball. Or they kiss in a tower. They sail on a magic carpet through the sky.
Okay, so just-just imagine I'm, like, floating, like, on a pillow of magic.
Whoa, you are so good at magic.
Julia asks Arbaces to give her a magic potion to restore Glaucus's love to her.
He was drawn to it as if by a magic power.
Witches were believed to curse people with diseases with the help of sorcerer's powder and magic potions.
Many women have probably really used such magic tricks and believed in their destructive effects.
The magic cap will change you into what you wish.
Let's see. I was out with some other students on a walking trip. and pretty soon we came to a dragon sitting in an automobile. who told us there was a magic pool in the forest.
There's magic here.
Just a bit of magic dust. and there it is again.
But just seeing you is magic, immortal Caesar.
All sensuous magic, scent of flowers, heavy and inebriating.
What you have just shown me, it is incredible that the brain of a single man should have thought up this realm of magic!
For the thief, the ring has lost its magic power.
The Magic Empire of the Twentieth Century!
It's more like black magic.
In the history of your own profession, psychiatry, a century ago, hypnosis was looked upon as black magic.
Do you, as an intelligent scientist, dare to dismiss as superstition the principles underlying Tibetan magic, voodooism, thought transference?
I don't believe in your spells and your magic!
Night of a full moon, your magic potion, makes hearts sick of love.
Listen, you hop aboard my magic carpet.
He did? Yes, he said straight magic is too old-fashioned.
Black magic, taboo, anything forbidden.
Is it true that you have a magic ring that can make you invisible?
That magic stuff you do really cracks me up.
They sail on a magic carpet through the sky.
That stuff is magic.
Those magic letters signify so much to all of us.
Ever since I was a small boy that name has been filled with magic for me.
This mysterious magic trick doesn't seem to work.
See, the magic trick did work!

News and current affairs

The longer they cling to a belief in magic formulas, the longer the euro crisis will be with us.
CAMBRIDGE - There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone's woes. But the spectacularly muddle-headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising.
If America's competitive position is so weak, what magic is holding up the dollar?
No one should expect that a single crisis can burn away all of a country's economic weeds, nor that the New Economy is a magic bullet for risk-free growth.
The fundamental problem that much of the world faces today is that investors are overreacting to debt-to-GDP ratios, fearful of some magic threshold, and demanding fiscal-austerity programs too soon.
Still, as in so many other countries, high tech was no magic bullet.
The urban middle classes, impatient with the slow processes of democracy, latch on to holy men and their magic potions.
Most citizens in the world's two largest democracies understand that democracy does not offer magic solutions.
There is no magic bullet for today's crisis.
These are modest proposals, because, when it comes to pro-growth reform in Europe, there is no magic bullet. There can be no centralization, and coordination always risks becoming murky.
Because the NAIRU is a purely theoretical construct, the Fed's economists can simply change their estimates of this magic number.
True, genocide has become a magic word, and people think that its mere evocation triggers the strong outrage of the world community and perforce sets in motion UN intervention.
What is the source of this attraction, this magic?
We economists were by and large capital boosters, and our magic formula for economic development was saving, investment, thrift, and wealth accumulation.
The Eiffel Tower imbued the evening with its magic.
There is nothing magic about this combination of high-yield seeds, fertilizer, and small-scale irrigation.
The magic of markets made possible an individualization of borrowing and consumption.
CAMBRIDGE - There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone's woes.
Even in China there is no magic potion that can revive a loan to a defunct exporter.
Those who do not believe in magic know better than to hope that it will somehow disappear in Durban.
No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.
These are modest proposals, because, when it comes to pro-growth reform in Europe, there is no magic bullet.
I did not have a magic algorithm relating economic factors to voting intentions - though I do think that there is some correlation between net disposable income and how people normally vote.
Indeed, the parallels between cancerous cells and invasive species suggest that the principles for successful cancer therapy might be found not in the magic bullets of microbiology but in the evolutionary dynamics of applied ecology.
Of course, no magic bullet will do away with the forces that divide India.
By bringing these subjects into focus, great film directors have gained a larger and more representative world of stories from which to work their magic.
Now, working for the taxpayer, these same investment bankers will suddenly come up with the magic pricing formula that has eluded them until now.
At this point, I as a pundit am supposed to come up with my magic plan, my clever scheme for fixing things and putting the world to rights.
The magic trifecta of sustainable debt and deficit ratios, a real depreciation, and restoration of growth looks unlikely to be achievable even with official financial support.

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