Sentences with phrase «for oracular»

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If so, that makes the blueprint he published under the auspices of the Center for American Progress even more oracular.

No one, I think, doubts that Yogi's most oracular formula, it ain't over till it's over, is a perfectly condensed statement of what for us are the game's highest spiritual and dramatic stakes.

Then, in nearly oracular tone Ramanujan went on: «There appear to be corresponding properties,» he wrote in his 1919 paper, «in which the moduli are powers of 5, 7 or 11... and no simple properties for any moduli involving primes other than these three.»

Smith's memoir of their friendship, Just Kids, is tender and artful, with the oracular style of her punk anthems balanced by her memory for everyday details like the price of Automat sandwiches and the shabby, welcoming fellow bohemians of the Chelsea Hotel.

By your standards you now owe me an apology on two counts: for the use of the word «oracular» in reference to my clear and substantive criticism and for suggesting I called anybody dishonest.