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Recent Examples of exorcism
This was the exorcism of another of last season’s ghosts.
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Beren Cross, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
These men act out their crimes in reenactments, leading to what’s almost an exorcism for both the killer and the survivors.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
In order to pull off the Jewish exorcism of the century, Matt and Christina enlist the help of Rabbi Louise (Connie Shi) and friends (played by Jonathan Fishman and Dalia Rooni).
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
This is all praise, and on the strength of those two performances, The Penguin (premiering early tonight on HBO and Max, then on Sundays for the remainder of the eight-episode season) pulls off an exorcism that initially seemed impossible.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
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Beren Cross, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
These men act out their crimes in reenactments, leading to what’s almost an exorcism for both the killer and the survivors.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
In order to pull off the Jewish exorcism of the century, Matt and Christina enlist the help of Rabbi Louise (Connie Shi) and friends (played by Jonathan Fishman and Dalia Rooni).
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
This is all praise, and on the strength of those two performances, The Penguin (premiering early tonight on HBO and Max, then on Sundays for the remainder of the eight-episode season) pulls off an exorcism that initially seemed impossible.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exorcism
Noun
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In a home for pregnant young women in 1970 Florida, a book on witchcraft upends lives.—
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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But the real witchcraft in the novel is the language; even in translation, Marías’s sinuous, elliptical prose unfolds like a troubled dream.—
M.L. Rio,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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Lawrence-Mathers not only shows the bonds between religion and sorcery but examines the sheer beauty of the manuscripts involved, from illumination to illustration.—
Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2025
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Currently untitled, the film is set in the present-day South, watching as a young woman’s reality is turned inside out when a school project unveils a powerful history of magic and sorcery in her family.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
18 Dec. 2024
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After her death, Morgan even resorted to necromancy, reviving the People’s Princess (now embodied by Elizabeth Debicki) as an apparition who soothes a disconsolate Charles (Dominic West) and makes peace with a grieving but resentful Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton).—
Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2023
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Part of my aversion arises from my own hidebound premodern Calvinist outlook, in which death is no laughing matter and necromancy is forbidden by God (see Deuteronomy 18:9-13).—
Barton Swaim,
WSJ,
26 Oct. 2023
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Spider divination In Cameroon, Mambila spider divination (nggam du)) poses difficult questions to spiders or land crabs that live in holes in the ground.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Following her magnificent turn as a Sicilian divination witch in Agatha All Along, Patti LuPone is returning to the small screen for another flashy role.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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The lights on the Arc de Triomphe were a bit of digital wizardry that didn’t actually happen.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
25 Nov. 2024
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For starters, there’s nothing apart from a curly cable winding up to the rear of the seat to indicate any kind of electric wizardry.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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All three are presented in the episode-two challenge, where they are suspended in cages above the ground out in the woods, like they’ve been accused of witchery or something.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2025
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There’s also a glimpse of Billy, Lilia and Jen channeling iconic Disney heroes and villains, plus requisite flashbacks to Agatha and Rio’s days of Salem witchery.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
14 Oct. 2024
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Mulligan invites Thompson — after her Misty used magic to compel the dragon to dance as a distraction — to roll for the dragon’s power to resist it.—
Eric Francisco,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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And, of course, there’s more of what made Apocalypse so famous that fans were willing to travel from across Miami-Dade and line up for hours in the hot sun: brisket, ribs and other barbecue magic.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
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