Sentences with phrase «of soothsayings»

Then astrology would once again become a nervous business, which could bring some fascinating changes to the art of soothsaying.

Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist — but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.

Not exact matches

British actor Peter Cook is touched — with genius, it would seem, for sports soothsaying, and surely with lunatic humor as co-star of the madcap review «Good Evening,» which is the hot favorite on Broadway

Some soothsayings on the Supreme Court's IBC decision, two Patterson fights and Sugar Ray's portrayal of Hamlet

As for soothsaying, Brodeur points out that the whole thrust of a pro's training — hitting ball after ball, year after year, until each shot is a machinelike reflex action — is aimed at the kind of consistency that makes prophets out of oddsmakers.

But I would soothsay that the business of doing archaeology will be very different.

It is a free online dating webpage that permits enrolled individuals to hunt the personals in view of sex, state, city, and even by birthday on the off chance that you are into soothsaying.

The strengths and weaknesses of That Championship Season are remarkably similar to those of Everybody's All - American: uniformly great performances at the service of pieces that would probably work better in different mediums (the stage, the opera house), and indifferent ventriloquial narratives that engage in basic soothsaying less revelatory than «no kidding,» each ending with a happy, varnished (embalmed?)

Or so we hope — for as much as the major critics» groups often delight us by throwing caution (and Oscar - soothsaying cred) to the wind with rebellious left - field picks, they are equally capable of falling dully into line behind pre-anointed favourites.

Fforde creates a cast of Wizards of various talents (sorcery, soothsaying, carpeteering, moving, shifting, birdspeaking, weathermongering) with varying degrees of wizidrical power, a King, a Duke, a Dragonslayer with apprentice, an enchanted lift, a Dragon, an order of nuns, a Childcatcher, a Pollyanna stone, a transient moose and the Quarkbeast (Labrador / velociraptor / kitchen blender).

After much speculation, questioning and soothsaying Sony has finally put all of that to rest by finally giving God of War a release date.

Toward the end of the video, however, the consideration of the body as an object of desire shifts to a soothsaying of bodily experience after death.

When Apple first introduced the 30 - Pin Dock Connector in 2003, they made it to be future proof, with a pin available for every conceivable connection... but after a decade of tech innovation, even Cupertino's sophisticated soothsaying has reached its limits.