Meanings of incantatory in English

He felt a morbid chill at the thought and its nearly incantatory quality.

These same pronoucements keep coming around, until they take on an incantatory air.

They must have the force of parable and the incantatory spell of fable.

He had a matchless ear for the mellifluous, incantatory qualities of the language.

Like its predecessor, the music's incantatory, essentially modal feel recalls John and Alice Coltrane.

Christmas TV has long had this incantatory quality, a rhetorical conjuring-up of collective national life.

It was incantatory, a precious rite of common healing.

With Egyptian strings and Senegalese percussion, his incantatory voice soared into the warm night sky.

The amphetamines tightening her temples, an incantatory throb.

As expected, the mood of the table changed the moment those four magical, incantatory words were spoken.

The poet's Victorian melancholy would influence his mature prose, with its sorrowful, incantatory tones and hard-won grace.

Yagharek did not tell the folk story in any incantatory, shamanic tones, but in the deadpan of a xenthropologist.

The things that have sometimes marred her acting -the warbling over-expressivenessand incantatory cadence -have dropped away.

The end-stopping of the verse and its incantatory repetitions enact a scary inescapability which becomes the impasse of life itself.

It is this sense of brooding nobility-aswell as Fitzgerald's passionate, incantatory voice-thatovershadows the human characters and dominates this story.

In an unhurried, fluent, almost incantatory manner, which seems somehow incongruous with the story she is telling, she relates the details.