With the words, she took the paper and tobacco from his unresisting hands; and with a facility that, in Desborough's eyes, seemed magical, rolled and presented him a cigarette.

Their first day together had seemed magical.

This process seemed magical but was based on shared, amplified manipulation of brain waves unknown to or nonexistent in most species.

Molokai had never seemed so magical.

When she had been a child, those holidays had seemed magical, a time when everyday concerns were put in perspective by the rhythm of village life.

Kabul - raw, ruined, yet stirring back to life - had never seemed more magical.

Always at Christmas in her childhood, each new tree had seemed magical, a haven for lights; the presents might have been offerings.

It must have seemed magical to them.

In a decade, Michael D. Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg transformed the slumbering Walt Disney Company into an $8.5 billion entertainment giant whose success has seemed magical.

This plot, so ripe with perfect timing and coincidences, sometimes seems magical itself.