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Every night on millions of TV screens, the breezy wizards conjure hieratically with nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chamber was immense, shadowy and draughty, the floor of stone, the walls of Hermon's rock, relieved by massive arcades supported on pilasters, and friezes of such images as were hieratically approved.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

The Caïd courteously responded, and twenty or thirty pilgrims were ordered to harness themselves to the motor and haul it back to the trail, while the rest of the procession moved hieratically onward.

From In Morocco by Wharton, Edith