Thus Dillard echoes Carlyle's sentiments that vaticination, or the act of prophesying, is a futile means of understanding the world. |
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Every grim vaticination made by Malthus turned out to be wrong. |
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The best legal defense is here a strong offense, employing vaticination as rhetorical power. |
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The singularity that sets up a contrast between this deliberate vaticination and photographic reality is endlessly fascinating to the artist and creates a certain equivocal ambiguity. |
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Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye. |
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