Mirrors, whether made of metal or glass, have retained their talismanic power in Chinese culture.

The other day he pulled out a list of bills pending in committee as if the list had talismanic power.

Perhaps you, with your talismanic powers, will have better luck.

Although Washington places talismanic power in numbers as it tries to judge the good or bad of such changes, statistics have often proved a false god.

The contributors repeat this figure as though it had talismanic power.

They were considered to have talismanic powers, and their making was in large part a religious ritual.

The objects have such talismanic power because so much is built into them.

Plains Indians believed that some objects possessed spiritual or talismanic power.

With Picasso there is always the feeling that the objects he painted were invested with talismanic powers.

For many people who know little or nothing about the sophisticated art world, sculpture has a magical, almost talismanic power.