sorcerous
English
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[edit]sorcerous (not comparable)
- Similar to, or involving, sorcery.
- 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club[1], archived from the original on 20 September 2018:
- Part toy box and part cabinet of curiosities for a young misfit finally finding his tribe, the house has competition only from Black, who always excels in roles that let him play an excitable kid in a grown man’s body, and does so here as the bumbling, sorcerous Uncle Jonathan, forever knocking things over […]
- 2019 October 10, Simon Reynolds, “The Rise of Conceptronica”, in Pitchfork[2]:
- That record was about the seductive power of “the aesthetics of wealth”—fashion runways, status brands, velvet-rope glamour—with the sorcerous allure of artifice and illusion seemingly left unchallenged.