Horace's sudden leaps to another plane were prophetic of catastrophe theory. |
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Here are the prophetic calculations of this manuscript, with lacunae inserted within square brackets. |
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As well as his annual almanac, he produced a series of astrological and prophetic pamphlets. |
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The book's second half focuses on the ethics of prophetic and apocalyptic literature. |
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And so they became a marginal but prophetic group willing to testify with their lives to the atrocity of war and coercion. |
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In the case of the augurs or haruspices of Rome, the animal was sacrificed to permit contemplation of the entrails for prophetic purposes. |
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His reviews, often scathingly honest, were usually prophetic of how well the public would receive a film, dance recital, or exhibition. |
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About half of Bulgarians believe in telepathy, the evil eye and black magic, and that dreams can be prophetic. |
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It is as if Yeats, in the manner of the prophetic romantic artist, perceives the historical importance of that year as it happens. |
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Patupaiarehe, prophetic visions and miracle healings are woven into the story. |
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And all is told with an almost prophetic Biblical tone, with infinite foreboding and dark overtones. |
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And so it is that this triptych of narratives involves prophetic individuals seeking a mystical connection with the world through creation. |
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About half of the population believe in telepathy, the evil eye and black magic, and that dreams can be prophetic. |
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The words of later Hebrew mystics capture accurately prophetic consciousness. |
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There can be no question that the church assumed itself capable of authoritative prophetic utterances. |
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The Bar Mitzvah boy is also expected to read the week's selection from the prophetic readings, called the Haftorah. |
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Sharp is to be congratulated for nuancing a very important and complex prophetic book. |
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Several Cassandras try in vain to make their prophetic voices heard, but everyone is deaf. |
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But I think more important than the oracle at Delphi is Socrates' conviction that there is an inner prophetic voice speaking to him. |
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An oracle is a shrine or temple sanctuary consecrated to the worship and consultation of a prophetic god. |
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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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Though the poems were in a European habit, Bialik imbues them with Biblical strophes, as well as prophetic metaphor, syntax, and meter. |
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The Book of Revelation, itself an heir to a long prophetic and chiliastic tradition, concludes with a vision of the New Jerusalem. |
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The prophetic or clairvoyant dream is perhaps the strongest reason for believing that dreaming is a gateway to another world. |
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And the number is growing, thanks to prophetic Pentecostal movements and the like. |
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Though Magdalen is still alive, the novel's prophetic gloom seems to have been realized in the irremediable loss of her character. |
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Since we lack prophetic foresight, we cannot predict the outcomes of our decisions. |
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We don't necessarily need prophetic foresight, just the ability to calculate what might result from our actions. |
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One cannot truly proclaim a prophetic word until a priestly word has first been spoken! |
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These events function as pessimistic and prophetic metaphors, not optimistic of the future. |
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His words looked to have a prophetic ring as the Scots came of age in an enthralling and ebbing battle of two sporting codes. |
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Yet in the context of 1935, the closing words also seem strangely prophetic. |
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On his next run, after a circuit or so of Exeter, my words were confirmed as cruelly prophetic. |
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Dreamers might also experience prophetic dreams that they would convey to others to forestall danger. |
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If they're right they can pull their dusty prediction out of the archives and look prophetic. |
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How about the Norse practice of dancing until going into a trance to be able to gain prophetic insights? |
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Sometimes I try to think about having prophetic dreams, but it never happens. |
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His visionary voice is potentially stifled by sorrow and grief, and he attempts to contain that dangerous erosion of his prophetic vision. |
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And who are the most successfully prophetic when it comes to predicting the future? |
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He was a prophetic poet with an individual and social message for the age in which he lived. |
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Dangerous times call for bold acts of empathy, prophetic visions of justice and mercy. |
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But alongside his prophetic insights were many idiosyncratic and sometimes silly arguments. |
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The prophetic discourse characterized the people as the agent of social change. |
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I could never keep straight the prophetic meanings found in the Books of Daniel and Revelation. |
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He clear vision, prophetic spirit and idiosyncratic musical style stand out in the Australian musical world. |
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Ultimately, anagogically, linear time ceases to hold sway and the prophetic soul perceives past, present and future as one. |
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Central to the prophetic tradition is its critique of religious rituals, beliefs and those who enforce them. |
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The prophetic books, especially, look forward to a return to this sort of paradise after the day of Judgement. |
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At the core of the prophetic text we find a word which seems contradictory, at least at first sight. |
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The majority occur in the prophetic genre where often these words have a symbolic meaning of blessing or judgment. |
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The Book of Revelation gives a prophetic description of the end of the world. |
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Alan Vaughan was a psychic who claimed, among other wonders, to have prophetic dreams. |
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The prophetic critique of primal Canaanite religion had the effect of desacralizing nature and divinizing morality. |
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He defied the wishes of his family concerning his career in a manner eerily prophetic of his son. |
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Crying out that he was about to damage cathedral property with four drawing pins, he affixed a prophetic proclamation to the main doors. |
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The prophetic is a literary mode long associated with Romanticism. |
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But their role in the new order was necessarily prophetic and minatory. |
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This nineteenth century green man holds out the prophetic possibility of restoration with nature, and in doing so reinforces our own sense of exile from it. |
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I have tried to show how the philosopher retains his prophetic character. |
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It is worth noting, however, that he was prophetic on several cultural and political developments. |
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Can we interpret their prophetic vision in a Scottish context? |
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Rather than see social events as holding spiritual significance in a prophetic way, they dismissed literal interpretations of apocalyptic prophecies. |
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Dyer uses this kind of gnomic, prophetic, baffling language all the time, and it can be trying and vague. |
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Any writer can end up being prophetic, a predictor of the coming gloom. |
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In fact, he calls all of us to a prophetic life-a life that witnesses to the power of the Spirit through the words we speak, the ways we serve, even the way we bear ourselves. |
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The characters who populate Blake's prophetic books are not people so much as embodiments of the principles that shape the universe he believed he was reshaping with his art. |
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The second time around, she fulfilled her desire to anoint His head as well, this time not as an act of repentance, but as an act of love and prophetic insight. |
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Isaiah marks the beginning of the prophetic books of the Old Testament. |
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Twenty-five years on, who can gainsay their prophetic analysis? |
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I'd start with The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, a book that was prophetic in identifying imperialism with cultural decadence and barbarism. |
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The pedantic type might note that Hippolytus makes no prophetic mention of the cinema or the Internet. |
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Hobbes's idea of a natural religion can fairly be described as deist, and his blend of deism and civil religion was to prove prophetic of much Enlightenment thinking. |
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His piece on the merger was so on the money as to be prophetic. |
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Here is a prophetic Nathan Zuckerman taking in the living room of the great writer E.I. Lonoff. |
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His words prove prophetic, as the kid are left disappointed. |
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Strangely, none of these failed predictions have bankrupted the prophetic project. |
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He left Spain again, and in 1279 in Patras wrote his first prophetic book. |
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A breezy, sensible governor with a prophetic eye on Latin America and the ability to actually get things done? |
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As a vision, it has certain affinities to the prophetic visions of the Tanach and of the Book of Revelation. |
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The third author, who lived in the time of Uzziah, though more mythological than the Elohists, was less formal. His standpoint is prophetic. |
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It has the prophetic vision. Fuit Ilium! The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are fellaheen today. |
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Can there be a more dubious moment in the entire poem than this precariously enjambed impersonation of prophetic forthspeaking? |
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Blake designed his own mythology, which appears largely in his prophetic books. |
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For example, Karl Barth interpreted Christ's prophetic office in terms of political engagement on behalf of the poor. |
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A prophetic word given in Bradford directed the leaders to invite the Welsh leaders to join them for a meeting. |
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It does not know a Mosaic, prophetic, and rabbinic Judaism, nor Orthodox and Liberal Judaism. |
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In 1521 Luther dealt largely with prophecy, in which he broadened the foundations of the Reformation, placing them on prophetic faith. |
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The prophetic and apostolic Scriptures are authentic as written by the prophets and apostles. |
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Zhang again acted as a Confucian prophetic voice in the wilderness who called the people to truth. |
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As such, of course, this i jaz would also be shared by other prophetic proclamations to the ahl al-kitab. |
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The Jewishly inspired prophetic will thus once again roam free in the world. |
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The attempt to reassert a prophetic role with the cross-denominational Hikoi of Hope in 1998 was still underpinned by those enduring tensions. |
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Even when it comes to one's dietary habits, there are numerous prophetic sayings or Hadiths guiding Muslims on this issue. |
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His insult proves a prophetic prescription, for Margaret will find her experience at Varanasi transformationally purgative. |
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Using what prophetic powers did the ACLU Civil Liberty and the Anti-Defamation League know in advance that this Jesus film was a racist atrocity? |
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The Galileans were often looked upon as a coarse people without history, traditions or prophetic succession. |
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On the one hand, there is the key ethical mandate to love the alien in the pentateuchal and prophetic writings. |
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Their venture into a dangerous escort service involves them with winged dragon challengers, jealous lovers, and a prophetic mystery in Drake's involving winner. |
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Almost 50 years after Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, spoke these words, the organization is recommitting itself to his prophetic statement. |
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However, regardless of evil portents, prophetic despair and a great deal too much writing on the wall, I have managed so far to write two fairly cheerful musical comedies. |
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They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. |
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While a prophetic utterance at times might foretell future events, this is not the primary purpose of Pentecostal prophecy and is never to be used for personal guidance. |
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It consists of a series of obscure prophetic utterances attributed to Merlin, which Geoffrey claimed to have translated from an unspecified language. |
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The demonic legacy invests Merlin with a preternatural knowledge of the past and present, which is supplemented by God, who gives the boy a prophetic knowledge of the future. |
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Nay, what is your Montesquieu himself but a clever infant spelling Letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in Eternity, in Heaven? |
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Captives might have their throats cut and be bled into giant cauldrons or have their intestines opened up and the entrails thrown to the ground for prophetic readings. |
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Early in the morning, before the first forelight of dawn had started the birds to prophetic chirpings, the recluse heard light movements in the outer room. |
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Whilst prophetic traditions were widely publicized, memorized and disseminated to all, the education of tasawwuf was restricted and its propagation circumspective. |
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Thus prophetic spake A voice of faith, forecharged with evolution's law. |
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These include rules of communities, biblically-inspired rewrites, calendrical texts, poetic texts, wisdom literature, commentaries on prophetic books, and so on. |
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