How To Use apotropaic In A Sentence
- Maybe it's an apotropaic gesture, maybe one writes to ward off death.
- A circumambulation is a ritual which can be performed in different contexts: apotropaic, cathartic, and as rite of aggregation.
- `Called PVS ," Mr Khan murmured, turning his eyes apotropaically to the ceiling. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- These deviant beings, placed in the holiest part of the church, may well serve an apotropaic function; yet again, they embody models in nature to be avoided.
- Was his extravagant creative production an apotropaic ritual that ultimately failed in its aim, or did the procession of his creature, so ferocious, but with a tinge of pathos to it, prove somehow overwhelming for him?
- The term “apotropaic” is a broad term referring to something intended to ward off evil, whereas the word “magic” in this case, simply refers to any ritualized behavior believed by its practitioners to be efficacious, that is, effective. [ Archive 2007-01-01
- The pattern of going to the spas was the attempt of mostly healthy individuals to undertake a prophylactic cure or to make an apotropaic gesture towards disease and be seen spending rather large sums of money doing this.
- An amulet shaped like a turtle, a creature of darkness, took the form of the very entity its wearer wished to avoid and thus acted apotropaically.
- `Called PVS," Mr Khan murmured, turning his eyes apotropaically to the ceiling. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- Her vigorous position, with one knee down and one up, coupled with the wings on her ankles, is illustrative of flight; her huge eyes and lolling tongue are apotropaic.
