It was unpredictable magic, but apparently bore some vague relationship to what he was wishing for.
The magic was unpredictable but sort of worked the way he wanted.
The magic was very precise and worked exactly the way he expected.
The athletes play basketball.
There is a man sitting outdoors
A man reading a book indoors.
Case studies are good ways to answer the question of how something happens.
This is the latest weather.
Nobody is standing