Richard Corliss

It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. But it is true about most summer movies. Pouring their wizardry into special effects and well-choreographed fights, warm-weather action films rarely challenge the viewer with grand notions or beautifully baffling imagery.

American Writer

Tina Brown

Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

American Editor

Rob Manuel

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

Businessman

Tobias Lutke

I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I wanted to know the secrets behind the wizardry, and that started my journey toward computer programming. This was the early 1990s, when computers weren't built for the mass market.

Canadian Businessman

Mahathir Mohamad

Jewish stinginess and financial wizardry gained them commercial control of Europe and provoked anti-Semitism, which waxed and waned in Europe throughout the ages.

Malaysian Politician

Paulie Malignaggi

You can teach defensive wizardry, but you need the talent to go with it. You have to be born with that natural defensive radar.

American Athlete

Gwendoline Christie

The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.

British Actress

Daniel Lyons

There's no special technological wizardry involved in what Groupon does.

Linked to fantasy and folklore where wizards perform spells and magic.

Fantastical Origin

Carries a magical, almost impossible quality, as wizards aren't real.

Mythical Connotation

Often used to describe technology or skills that seem magical.

Advanced Technology

Reflects a high level of skill or ingenious solution.

Impressive Expertise

Used metaphorically to describe non-magical excellence or creativity.

Metaphorical Use

Can be hyperbolic, suggesting someone's skill is almost unbelievable.

Hyperbolic Tone

 But the corollary of that is that, if we all are brothers and sisters and share the same genetic material, all human populations share the same raw human genius, the same intellectual acuity. And so whether that genius is placed into -- technological wizardry

Wade Davis: The...

 would have regarded as wizardry but it was he who put us on his rough endless Road

Wizardry