| Whether the birds represented oracular nightingales, or wrynecks used as love-charms and rain-inducers, is disputable. |
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| Chapter 8 is developed in prose that is remarkable for its oracular cadence, one that temporarily arrests the flow of the narrative. |
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| A further oracular pronouncement has effectively restored Oedipus's free will. |
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| During a divination, they construct usable knowledge from oracular messages. |
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| Thus the same articulation pertains in the Panhellenic Games as in the order of the oracular consultation. |
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| Laius set off to ask the oracular Pythoness at Delphi how to deal with this monster. |
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| Instead of unambiguous statements, the Union contents itself with oracular analyses. |
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| This turns out to be brief and oracular, and tells us nothing about Delbrel. |
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| While the poetry is cryptic, allusive and ambiguous, the prose is lucid, oracular, loftily self-assured. |
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| Their work had an oracular or prophetic immediacy for a civilian population generally starved of real news about the war. |
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| What she has to say about the Victorians, or Bloomsbury, Yates, the Pre-Raphaelites, or more modern writers has at times an oracular quality. |
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| When a student writes down my words verbatim, the words take on a kind of oracular quality in the student's mind. |
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| Greenspan cultivated an oracular air, his utterances vague and technocratic yet hinting at shamanistic powers. |
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| Finally the internet is living up to its truly oracular potential. |
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| Crucially, however, even within the confines of the biological sciences, the science of genetics does not, and cannot, speak with a single, oracular voice. |
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| Malraux's own prose could be oracular, gnomic and mannered, but it never, ever, sounded like a series of captions to a photo spread in Paris Match. |
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| In oracular mode Peter Jenkins predicts that, inside of ten years, recreational tree climbing will eclipse both rock climbing and caving in mass participation. |
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| Most reminiscent of the '60s, however, is a kitschy utopianism that underwrites all manner of oracular dicta, odd complaints, and questionable advice to the lovelorn. |
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| The philosophers in the first century wrote of gases producing euphoria and of a spring emanating from fissures, or chasms, in the bedrock inside the oracular chamber. |
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| He pours hot-pink paint in her jewelry box, gets cuffed around by the pool man, and must eventually take counsel from an oracular cowboy. |
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| How pithy, how profoundly oracular, how majestically Delphian! |
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| He both convenes community and shatters its calcifications, creating the space for oracular truths to emerge while posing equally provocative dilemmas. |
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| Every oracular site was the spokesman of a different God who expressed him or herself through the priestesses of Pythia. |
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| They make the Court an oracular interpreter of the 225-year-old Constitution that serves as the most basic American law. |
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| The diviner employs the arts dramatically, heightening all the senses, to create and highlight this radically different setting for the oracular utterance. |
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| Nothing offended me but that lisping Miss Haughton, whose every speech is inarticulately oracular. |
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| Newt Gingrich, a possible presidential candidate for 2012, has stumped on his behalf and Sarah Palin has endorsed him through her oracular Facebook page. The special election on May 18th will not be straightforward. |
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| And how has he achieved such oracular influence over bosses? |
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| And that is not counting the plummeting euro and the explosion in the price of a barrel of crude oil, factors not anticipated in the past oracular pronouncements by self-styled experts on Europe. |
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| This apocalyptic talisman is derived from the talismans used in Coptic magic, and is certainly one of the most powerful oracular objects of our time. |
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| Criterion vi: The Mwari religion which is still practiced in the area, and which may date back to the Iron Age, is the most powerful oracular traditions in southern Africa. |
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| His comments are aphoristic or oracular, but often infused with wit. |
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| Tree worship was perhaps more obvious in ancient Greece with its oracular oak groves and Rome with its sacred fig tree. |
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| These include oracular directives, augury, oneiromancy and haruspicy. |
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| It was one of those dire oracular pronouncements that Marko made from time to time, which were afterwards spread from mouth to mouth among the Serbs. |
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| Oracular activities, trade, and a network of settlements have extended the Aro reach over the Cross River, Ibibio, and Igbo areas. |
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