Two shrewd commentators of the late 1940s had already divined that at least some Rorschach wizards achieved their success by resorting to tricks. |
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He fashioned a crude lean-to out of twigs and pitch, ensnared wild game in a hand-made wooden trap, and divined the coveted secret of fire. |
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But, as Maurice Newman correctly divined, if you don't like the situation, don't stay around. |
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Once this meaning or purpose has been divined, then the past, present, and future can be seen as conforming to some kind of structure or shape. |
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Seeing the king, Samudra divined that the time had come for Ashoka's conversion. |
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They commemorate the currency of cowrie shells and beads, while suggesting the practice of a geomancy divined in the patterning of objects. |
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The meanings of the hexagrams were divined many years ago by Chinese philosopher-priests in tune with the Tao. |
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Yet he correctly divined that, having lost three elections in a row on the right-wing platforms favoured by its members, it needed to change. |
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The path all of this takes is easily divined, although the ending is not. |
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Dr Sanger divined the exact structure of insulin and proved that, on the contrary, the ordering of amino acids was crucial. |
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And on the other hand, price elasticity in the future cannot be divined by such models. |
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The actions we should take to be good can also be divined from our traditions. |
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Despite that, Modernism's influence can still be divined in several works by local architects such as Bennàzar and Aleñà. |
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The underpinnings of Shanghai's confidence in its future can be divined by dredging its archives. |
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One can suspect that one of the reasons for these withdrawals is, without doubt, the weakness that can be divined in our spiritual life. |
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I hadn't correctly divined your attitude towards your tenants. |
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Here he depicts a man, fancydressed as Pierrot, who holds the languid gaze of a woman whose excitement can be divined by the slight blushing of her cheeks. |
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In this rite they are given a name which is determined by the Nisut through aural divination, and take vows to serve the gods divined in their Rite of Parent Divination before other gods. |
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Mr Draghi's ideas, as far as they can be divined, are to promote structural reforms to make labour markets more flexible and encourage entrepreneurship. |
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However, when the sea brought him close to the shore, she distinguished the shape of the chest, and gazing more intently, she first made out the arms strained over the chest, and then discerned the face and divined the truth. |
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All of which is to say that the long-term consequence of last week's big decision cannot be even roughly divined from an attentive reading of the text. |
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Some also correctly divined the hand of the reviled European Union in this the accession of Poland and other eastern European countries to the common market having helped drive a decade-long surge in immigration to Britain. |
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He was talking about what could be divined from the final burst of data. |
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Only these allow the Truth to be divined. But only to be divined, because the high inspirations and visionary pictures of the poets were made far too earthly through the intellect co-operating in the transmission. |
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It devoted its time to the study of vril, and taught that the secret of vril could be divined by contemplating the structure of an apple sliced in half. |
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Eyelids and curving lashes masked the gleam of jet-black pupils, and beneath them one divined a languorous gaze, aglint on occasion with the fire of oriental passion. |
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