The incantational tumult he could raise in a long improvisation, the steel-trap knowledge of harmony, the writing: that's all very impressive.

He wanted to hum a death spell between his teeth, to flap his arms in an incantational gesture, to spit at the adept and spin widdershins on his left heel thrice.

In the middle space, Wangechi Mutu offers puzzling, possibly incantational works, like an inverted bottle dripping blue liquid onto the floor and a small, hypnotic video projection called "Fate Smuggler."

(To situate it stylistically within Coltrane's work, "One Down, One Up" takes the fast, nearly incantational delivery of his "Chasin' the Trane" improvisation from 1961, a few notches higher.)

In "They Say It's Wonderful," Mr. Rollins ran through a long, unfruitful sequence of trading four-bar breaks with Mr. Jordan before he finally began to solo continuously and approach incantational mode.

To this species of vulgar cacophony he offers the following counterpoint: "Negroes fashioned one side of their vision: perhaps from the incantational percussion of Africa, and what I can only call a heroic recognition of the vibrance at the center of existence.

Granger holds, contrary to several Christian critics of the series - including Brjit Kjos and Richard Abanes - that the books' magic is incantational rather than invocational, and, as such, require and support a Christian worldview rather than undermine it.

By vesting the most modest of realities with the prestige and the charm of fairy tales and poetry, Chimet invites (and compels) us to admit them as situated at an energetic and incantational level by no means inferior to the most delicate fantasies and the least bound reveries of Surrealism."

Granger argues that the books do not promote the occult because none of the magic is based on summoning any sort of demon or spirit; he contrasts occult invocational magic (calling up spirit beings to do your bidding) with literature's common incantational magic (saying a set phrase to use power from an unspecified source).