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Usage examples of dreamcatcher.

While watching Dreamcatcher, however, I noticed a mentally challenged kid sitting nearby and realized that the only time his interest was fully engaged was when Duddits was on-screen.

There were some dreamcatchers and curse-nets, which she sometimes saw hanging up outside cottages at home.

In truth, most witches could get through their whole life without having to do serious, undeniable magic (making shambles and curse-nets and dreamcatchers didn’t really count, being rather more like arts-and-crafts, and most of the rest of it was practical medicine, common sense and the ability to look stern in a pointy hat).

Among his most recent are From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Dreamcatcher, On Writing, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and Bag of Bones.

I parked across the street from the house, in front of an empty lot full of parched jimson weed and brambles as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher.

However you might judge him as a writer, he shows us the hearts of real estate agents, car dealers, gas station owners, janitors, accountants, and many other salt-of-the-culture types (perhaps more significantly, he shows us how they perceive themselves), and the concern we feel for these folks permits us to overlook the illogics, the unwieldy plot devices, the repetitions, the supernatural flotsam and jetsam of desultorily imagined spooks and demons and creatures that crop up in his lesser novels, of which Dreamcatcher is surely one.