conjure up

I felt a bit guilty about fooling my ma, but whenever a pang hit, I conjured up the vision of my voice dancing along wires in the sky.

Head's recovered unity of subjectivity is no more than his another ideal ego conjured up in the imaginary order.

She baked bread in an outdoor oven and conjured up a feast on an antique range that looked like it had it come from Mrs Beeton's kitchen.

Second, we do not see the introduction of such a charge as a punitive measure. Nor is it a disingenuous device conjured up by us.

Yet, with the vague ideas I conjured up from the rest, I spun out a variously coloured thread on which to string the illustrations.

At the end of the 1990s, the dotcom phenomenon conjured up the possibility of making unlimited amounts of money in a new economy.

For this latest residence, his own dream-come-true, he has conjured up a tranquil sense of sculptural beauty.

But in the end he conjured up a reality of his own, channelling the magic of computing into products that reshaped entire industries.

Her mother could not repress her consciousness of the nuptial Vision conjured up by the girl's consent.

Innovation, however, isn't something that can be conjured up in government offices or corporate boardrooms.

They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds-the product of our own fantasies.

The black-and-white film noir decor, narrative thread, and not least the name, immediately conjured up images of the Twilight Zone.

The old man conjured up a bag of silver coins from his pocket.

Drugs conjured up in a lab = good.

Fresh audiences for opera and classical music will not be conjured up via disciplinary upheavals in elite universities.

So an image of "the brain's blueprint" had to be conjured up from our artist's imagination.

The agency added, with an unusual burst of humour, that "the images they conjured up were not, one could say, appetising" .

The Red Guards could still return one day, conjured up by the ghost of the Great Helmsman.

Conservative ministers and MPs differ over timing (new treaties are not conjured up overnight, ministers have warned backbenchers).

And it conjured up images of the mad scientist at work, playing with human life in a test tube.

Their team has conjured up a couple of decent slogans; the Tories are still groping for theirs.

I had lost my pen, but she conjured up another one for me from somewhere.

That name, conjured up less than a decade ago, has now become the world's most powerful brand.

Many other interesting correlation can be conjured up .

In many cases, however, the true difficulties were not localized , and sometimes false ones were conjured up.

They listened in astonishment while James conjured up pictures of fantastic machines.

Soon he had conjured up an irrepressible rodent who, like his creator, would take whatever abuse the world gave and still smile.

When I told un-initiated people that I was going to Nude Nite, it conjured up salacious thoughts of some kind of party at a nudist resort.

The pair then conjured up a plan to fool his employer into believing he had carried out the hit.

Two spectres conjured up the buried past.

I could not see her smile now; my eyes were full of the fears I had conjured up.

Once again he conjured up the illusion.

But, if US defaulted, it doesn't matter to China because they just conjured up the money in the first place.

The magician conjured up a white rabbit.

This is not something conjured up by a few individuals. It has become a living reality in China.

The singing of the birds outside the window conjured up memories of my childhood in the countryside.

Ruthie has been yanked out from under whatever dark cloud she conjured up.

It was not long ago when "made in Taiwan" conjured up images of cheap products and plastic Godzillas.

Father didn't believe the story his son had conjured up.

Some people think of seeing ghosts as a case of something being conjured up, perhaps by the disordered nervous system of the victim;

Her mind conjured up a blurred vision of fire and falling buildings

so they conjured up a plan to meet late at night

American spies and analysts conjured up phantom Iraqi weapons programs in 2002;