Talisman

talisman



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護身符



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–noun  

1. a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet (避邪物) or charm.

2. any amulet or charm.

3. anything whose presence exercises a remarkable or powerful influence on human feelings or actions. 





　

"10 Things I Hate About You'' is inspired, in a sortuva kinduva way, by Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew,'' in the same sense that "Starship Troopers'' was inspired by "Titus Andronicus.'' 



It doesn't remake Shakespeare so much as [evoke] him as a talisman, by setting its story at Padua High School, naming its characters Stratford and Verona, making one of the heroines a shrew, etc. There is even a scene where the shrew is assigned to rewrite a Shakespeare sonnet.





liturgical

thaumaturgical

sorcerer

If John’s illness resembles the [curse] put on Sleeping Beauty by an evil [sorcerer], 

incantation

The attractions of impromptu ritual are [a] constant in Me and You, in the incantatory [recitations] Christine records for her videos

repetitious wordiness to conceal a lack of content, obfuscation

Her prose too often resorts to [incantation].  

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