Frank Bruni: That is a bit of unimpeachable soothsaying, Gail.
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What is the mysterious tune that Jacob's soothsaying daughter keeps humming?
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In Thailand it is often hard to separate state Buddhism from soothsaying.
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It is tempting to file them as somewhere between soothsaying and speculation.
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Can you do some more of your soothsaying and tell me what will happen?
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To say it's because of Hillary or Trump is stretching it as far as soothsaying goes.
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Frank: Whoa, was that political analysis, Capitol Hill soothsaying or an episode of "House of Cards"?
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Which leads to the most pressing question of all: Why does Jacob have a soothsaying daughter?
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Honestly, there was so much loudmouthed soothsaying that it was hard to tell who was saying what.
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And despite the title, which refers to the book that made Luce's name, there are no soothsaying vaginas. Alas.
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Kwon Hee-gwan, who offers readings from soothsaying tents near Tapgol Park in Seoul, is a firm believer in this.
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This most recent bout of volatility may say more about the firm's soothsaying abilities than the strength of its underlying business.
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When one of your soothsaying accounts is right, you either set the correct one to public, or delete the wrong results.
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Its stock price is high enough to absorb any litigation-inducing tweets from Musk, bad news from regulators, or negative Wall Street soothsaying.
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Maybe Butler had a side line in soothsaying, because the book imagines a society debilitated by authoritarian leadership, income inequality and environmental collapse.
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Not to say they're some sort of soothsaying wizards, but the boy band Busted did sing about living underwater in the year 3000, of course.
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I considered myself to be a hopeful skeptic, but a neophyte in the worlds of clairvoyance, soothsaying and any medium promising news of the future.
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Summoning nefarious powers of sorcery and soothsaying, the Republican National Committee has declared Mike Pence the winner of Tuesday's vice presidential debate — hours before it happened.
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It has since gone through several other, updated editions, and other authors of esoterica have offered their own, rather different interpretations of the alphabet's soothsaying capacity.
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What if I told you that venture capitalists aren't soothsaying wise men who are uniquely qualified to predict the future of male and female CEOs alike?
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It's that time of the year where soothsaying is the favorite practice of many analysts who try to predict year end price targets of this or that.
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Chinese people, including the country's leaders, have a long tradition of putting their faith in soothsaying and geomancy, looking for answers in times of doubt, need and chaos.
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Its quarterly reports have become something of a collective soothsaying moment for stock markets and the tech industry, and so Thursday's report garnered its usual share of outsized attention.
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People in China, especially its leaders, have a long tradition of turning to soothsaying and geomancy to find answers to their problems in times of doubt, need and chaos.
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"A must," she says in French, "for both the cooking and the eating," and the first of many simple, soothsaying lessons she's understood throughout her seven decades in the kitchen.
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In "Spillover," epidemiologist Donald Burke at the University of Pittsburgh talks to Quammen: The practical alternative to soothsaying, as Burke put it, is 'improving the scientific basis to improve readiness.
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The Republican candidate's election represents a massive failure of the soothsaying machine, which predicted that the better funded, deeply connected, infinitely more experienced Hillary Clinton would become the first woman US president.
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Our new employer was the Psychic Readers Network, a hotline known for its ads starring Miss Cleo, a motormouthed shaman with a lavishly fake Jamaican accent and a streetwise, no-nonsense approach to soothsaying.
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" In the fifth issue of Rumiyah, an ISIS publication, a leader for ISIS in Sinai said he wanted his group to "wage war" against Sufis and others because of their "sorcery, soothsaying, and grave-worship.
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From The Siren and the Sword (Magic University Book 1) by Cecilia Tan"Soothsaying Practices of the Western World" left Kyle dizzy and wondering how he could even hope to grasp all the practices they'd covered.
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From The Siren and the Sword (Magic University Book 1) by Cecilia Tan "Soothsaying Practices of the Western World" left Kyle dizzy and wondering how he could even hope to grasp all the practices they'd covered.
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The author, Jon Bonné, whose 2013 book, "The New California Wine," outlined the evolution of California wine in the early part of this century, here takes on a less daunting task: Soothsaying fearful, inhibited wine consumers.
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On the two occasions when the team on offense bucked Romo's soothsaying, "the results were poor — one play ended with an incomplete pass, and the other with a turnover," noted Zach Helfand in The New Yorker.
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As for soothsaying, were Trump a normal president, or person, you would expect him to seize this opportunity to return to his 2016 populism and triangulate against his own party by, say, finally doing that infrastructure bill.
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While Baduizm isn't so weighty (no art quite matches Dash's intensity), Badu—the sage in a head wrap who spoke in Five Percenter language and referred to herself as a god—could have well been a soothsaying descendant of the Peazant women.
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Then, with an airplane soaring off it segues into "Earth (Gaia)" which merges Ming the Merciless' Flash Gordon quotes with doom-laden bible soothsaying and rich ambient sounds—and so begins a near-two hour progressive journey that doesn't do a disservice to the title.
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His new book, Dawn of the New Everything, is part coming-of-age chronicle (he lived with his father in a DIY geodesic dome), part swinging Silicon Valley memoir (rich anecdotes from his time at VPL), and it's stuffed with enough fantastical soothsaying to fill a Holodeck.
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But given that there is so much that we do not know in this Finals rematch, even and maybe especially after Game 1, it seems foolish for anyone else—and for Shaughnessy, Jackson, and their soothsaying peers—not to just enjoy the process of figuring it out.
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Even his supposedly best stuff would be torn apart if presented to the poetry practicum she taught every Tuesday, not only on account of its wordy, clichéd, hyperactive figuration but, more fundamentally, because of the soothsaying persona that the singer so readily deployed, a trope that worked fine in a pop song but on paper came off as a shtick.
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McGregor and his fans have been calling the fighter "Mystic Mac" for years, in honor of his ability to, like fellow sports mega-stars Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali before him, call his shots, but this kind of prescience, this level of prophesizing and augury, is enough to make even a born skeptic doubt his doubts about the arts of divination, soothsaying, and palmistry.
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The Fortune- Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying. Visible Ink Press. p. 246.
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Halakha (Jewish religious law) forbids divination and other forms of soothsaying, and the Talmud lists many persistent yet condemned divining practices.W. Gunther Plaut, David E. Stein. The Torah: A Modern Commentary. Union for Reform Judaism, 2004.
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Prolix is expelled from the camp, swears to give up soothsaying, and is driven away by a thunderstorm. The Gaulish village is soon at peace, with the exception of Cacofonix, who still daydreams of himself as a famous singer.
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Waluburg (fl. AD 2nd Century) was a Semnonian seeress in the service of the governor of Roman Egypt (praefectus Aegypti). Her name was found on an ostracon on the Egyptian island of Elephantine. Her duties most likely included interpreting omens and soothsaying.
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Several references to Gaulish in late antiquity may indicate that it continued to be spoken. In the second century AD there was explicit recognition of its usage in some legal manners,Digest 31.1.11; Lambert, La langue gauloise, p. 10. soothsaying and pharmacology.
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The Greek army took soothsaying very seriously and would not advance until the seers would reveal favorable omens. They make their appearance in Herodotus and Xenophon when their actions seemed unusually noteworthy.Flower, Michael A.. The seer in ancient Greece . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Print.
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Richard Boston (29 December 1938 – 22 December 2006) was an English journalist and author, a rigorous dissenter and a belligerent pacifist. An anarchist, toper, raconteur, marathon runner and practical joker, he described his pastimes as "soothsaying, shelling peas and embroidery"BBC Radio 4, Last Word. (12 January 2007). (recovered 18 January 2007).
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Not all sources agree that tephramancy and tephromancy are synonyms. Some sources claim that tephramancy uses only the ash of tree bark, while tephromancy may use the ashes of any sacrifice.Buckland, The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying, 2004, p. 479.Pickover, Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction, 2001, p. 183.
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Rimsky-Korsakov wrote of these sessions, "Balakirev, who did not believe in God, became a believer in the Devil. The Devil brought it about that subsequently he came to believe in God too ... [T]he soothsaying ... cast a terror upon him".Rimsky-Korsakov, My Musical Life, 108. Following his breakdown, Balakirev sought solace in the strictest sect of Russian Orthodoxy,Maes, 45.
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Spodomancy is an ancient and globally widespread divination practice. The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus (525 BC–456 BC) noted that ashes falling from a fireplace could be divined for portents.Buckland, The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying, 2004, p. 231. A word, phrase, name, or question would be written in the ashes with a finger or stick.
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Calchas died of shame at Colophon in Asia Minor shortly after the Trojan War (as told in the Cyclic Nostoi and Melampodia): the prophet Mopsus beat him in a contest of soothsaying, although StraboStrabo. Geography, 6.3.9. placed an oracle of Calchas on Monte Gargano in Magna Graecia. It is also said that Calchas died of laughter when he thought another seer had incorrectly predicted his death.
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Denis Sinor, however, holds the worship of a sword among the Huns to be aprocryphal. Maenchen-Helfen also argues that, while the Huns themselves do not appear to have regarded Attila as divine, some of his subject people clearly did. A belief in prophecy and divination is also attested among the Huns. Maenchen-Helfen argues that the performers of these acts of soothsaying and divination were likely shamans.
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Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, beliefs of this sort-in sorcery, magic, and superstition-were widespread. The Termessians were probably very interested in fortune telling. Inscriptions of this kind are usually four to five lines long and include numbers to be thrown with the dice, the name of the god wanted for soothsaying, and the nature of the prediction given in the counsels of that god.
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D'Aveni's 7S framework is Richard D'Aveni's approach to directing a firm in a high velocity or Hypercompetitive markets. it is designed to enable firms sustain the momentum of their competitiveness through a series of initiatives that are poised to give temporary advantages rather than just structuring the firm to achieve internal or external fit aimed at maintaining equilibrium that are designed to sustain unsustainable competitive advantages. Based on factors such as: # Stakeholder satisfaction. # Strategic soothsaying.
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Heritier, 460. Her reading was not entirely highbrow, however. A superstitious woman, she believed implicitly in astrology and soothsaying, and her reading matter included The Book of Sibyls and the almanacs of Nostradamus.Knecht, 221, 244–45 Catherine patronised poets such as Pierre de Ronsard, Rémy Belleau, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and Jean Dorat, who wrote verses, scripts, and associated literature for her court festivals, and for public events such as royal entries and royal weddings.
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How Should We use The Great Controversy?" rejects "literalistic reading" which ignores context (Bible or EGW). Principles extracted and reaffirmed in the reader's context.See Fred Veltman, "Text and Community in Dynamic Relationship". Adventist Today 1:3 (September 1993), p16, 19One lecturer claims "The symbolic, apocalyptic prophecies have always been a playground for egomaniacs, charlatans, and the sincerely misguided who play upon human fascination for a knowledge of the future, for soothsaying and fortunetelling.
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321 The Pentateuch contains no references to astrology, and in the Prophets and Writings, only obscure references to Babylonian astrologers exist.Alexander Altmann, ‘Astrology’, in Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1973, Vol. 3), p. 788. Two commandments in the Torah have been understood by some later authorities as a basis to forbid astrology: These commandments are understood by some rabbinic authorities as forbidding astrology, while others limit these mitzvot to other forms of soothsaying, and thus view astrology as permissible.
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Letters in arrows and associated flux values correspond to descriptions displayed in (B), which lists sources and sinks of oceanic DOC.Wagner, S., Schubotz, F., Kaiser, K., Hallmann, C., Waska, H., Rossel, P.E., Hansman, R., Elvert, M., Middelburg, J.J., Engel, A. and Blattmann, T.M. (2020) "Soothsaying DOM: A current perspective on the future of oceanic dissolved organic carbon". Frontiers in Marine Science, 7:341. . 50px Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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In the Epic of Sundiata (also spelled Son-Jara or Sundjata) Naré Maghann Konaté (also called Maghan Kon Fatta or Maghan the Handsome) was a Mandinka king who one day received a soothsaying hunter at his court. The hunter predicted that if Konaté married an ugly woman, she would give him a son who would one day be a mighty king. Naré Maghann Konaté was already married to Sassouma Bereté and had a son by her, Dankaran Toumani Keïta. However, when two Traoré hunters from the Do kingdom presented him an ugly, hunchbacked woman named Sogolon, he remembered the prophecy and married her.
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Here lived Orpheus, the Ciconian, it is said — a wizard who at first collected money from his music, together with his soothsaying and his celebration of the orgies connected with the mystic initiatory rites, but soon afterwards thought himself worthy of still greater things and procured for himself a throng of followers and power. Some, of course, received him willingly, but others, since they suspected a plot and violence, combined against him and killed him. And near here, also, is Leibethra." "Some, of course, received him willingly, but others, since they suspected a plot and violence, combined against him and killed him.
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Paul and his companions, Silas and Timothy, had plans to journey to the southwest portion of Asia Minor to preach the gospel but during the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him to go to Macedonia to help them. After seeing the vision, Paul and his companions left for Macedonia to preach the gospel to them. The Church kept growing, adding believers, and strengthening in faith daily. In Philippi, Paul cast a spirit of divination out of a servant girl, whose masters were then unhappy about the loss of income her soothsaying provided.
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Apparently it was among works from Acharnae written in heroic hexameters and attached to the famous name of Hesiod, for Pausanias adds "Those who hold this view also say that Hesiod was taught soothsaying by the Acharnians." Though it has been lost, fragments in heroic hexameters that survive in quotations are considered to belong to it. The common thread in the fragments, which may reflect in some degree the Acharnian image of Chiron and his teaching, is that it is expository rather than narrative, and suggests that, rather than recounting the inspiring events of archaic times as men like NestorIn both Iliad and Odyssey. or GlaucusIn Iliad vi.155–203.
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He would then become chief of Savelugu instead of Karaga.Staniland (1974), Mahama 1987 and Sulemana A. Anamzoya (2004) The system of rotation offered by the deceased chief was not respected and the kingmakers, relying on soothsaying and/or by frenzied dancing to the personal whims of Tugu Lana Yiri (Tuguna Yiri) bid his request and made Kukaridjei (the chief of Savelugu) the Ya Na. Tamakloe (1931:43) sympathises with the elders of Dagbon when he said that “the elders reluctantly did what was asked of them.” Infuriated, Allassani sought help from the German colonial administration in Sansan Mangu (in modern Togo) who came, dethroned the Andani usurpers and made Allasani king. Thus, Darimani was king for only seven weeks in the Gbewaa Palace (i.e.
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He found believers from Pontus to Rome through pretended arts of soothsaying and magic and was revered and consulted as a prophet by many notable individuals of his age.Neander, Johann August W, General history of the Christian religion and Church (1850), p. 41. During the plague of 166 a verse from the oracle was used as an amulet and was inscribed over the doors of houses as a protection and an oracle was sent, at Marcus Aurelius' request, by Alexander to the Roman army on the Danube during the war with the Marcomanni, declaring that victory would follow on the throwing of two lions alive into the river. The result was a great disaster and Alexander had recourse to the old quibble of the Delphic oracle to Croesus for an explanation.
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The socialist revolution would occur first in the most advanced capitalist nations and once collective ownership had been established then all sources of class conflict would disappear. Instead of Marx's predictions, communist revolutions took place in undeveloped regions in Latin America and Asia instead of industrialized countries like the United States or the United Kingdom. Popper has argued that both the concept of Marx's historical method as well as its application are unfalsifiable and thus it is a pseudoscience that cannot be proven true or false: > The Marxist theory of history, in spite of the serious efforts of some of > its founders and followers, ultimately adopted this soothsaying practice. In > some of its earlier formulations (for example in Marx's analysis of the > character of the 'coming social revolution') their predictions were > testable, and in fact falsified.
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Timothy Barnes, "Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality" (1998), pages 122-123 The "Funeral Oration upon the Emperor Julian" by Libanius elaborates on the subject of Julian's chastity:"This was the pleasure our emperor reaped from the length of the nights, whilst others were following the business of Venus. But he was so far from inquiring where there was a fair daughter, or wife, that had he not once been tied by Juno with the bond of marriage, he would have ended his days knowing nothing of sexual intercourse but by name. But as it was he regretted his wife, yet did not touch another woman, either before or after her; being by his constitution enabled to be continent, and his constant occupation in the art of soothsaying concurring to require this restraint. ... Being exhorted by his relations to marry, that he might get children for heirs to his power, "It was out of fear of this very thing," replied he, "that I have neglected to do so, lest they, succeeding by hereditary right, should turn out bad and ruin the state, experiencing the same fate with Phaethon.
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The enormity of sin, the charm of virtue, the torture of an evil conscience, the sweetness of a God-fearing life alternate with heaven and hell as the themes of his majestic dithyramb. He returns again and again to the wickedness of woman (one of the fiercest arraignments of the sex), the evils of wine, money, learning, perjury, soothsaying, etc.. This master of an elegant, forceful, and abundant Latinity cannot find words strong enough to convey his prophetic rage at the moral apostasy of his generation. Youthful and simoniacal bishops, oppressive agents of ecclesiastical corporations, the officers of the Curia, papal legates, and the pope himself are treated with no less severity than in Dante or in the sculptures of medieval cathedrals. The early half of the twelfth century saw the appearance of several new factors of secularism unknown to an earlier and more simply religious time: the increase of commerce and industry resultant from the Crusades, the growing independence of medieval cities, the secularization of Benedictine life, the development of pageantry and luxury in a hitherto rude feudal world, the reaction from the terrible conflict of State and Church in the latter half of the 11th century.
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