Sentences with word «oracular»

It borrows material from the system of objective conceptions and historical circumstances and uses it to explain in narrative or teaching, in oracular utterance or rule, in controversy or judicial pronouncement, what it has to say of the pure relation between God and man.
He was routinely consulted for oracular pronouncements on everything from time travel and alien life to Middle Eastern politics and nefarious robots.
Bohr, an almost oracular figure in 20th - century physics, argued that when studying the atomic world, physicists must give up the notion of a reality that exists independently of their own measurements.
William Wootters, one of Wheeler's many students and now a professor of physics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, sees Wheeler as an almost oracular figure.
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.»
Then, in a nearly oracular tone, Ramanujan wrote that there should be no corresponding «simple properties» involving larger primes — in other words, there is no sequence of p (n)'s that are all divisible by 13, 17 or 19 and so on.
To test the software they enrolled a prototype into a wide range of series comprising of science data contests, where it was challenged against human groups to figure out oracular patterns in data sets that are unfamiliar.
If so, that makes the blueprint he published under the auspices of the Center for American Progress even more oracular.
«Canadian economist Jeff Rubin has a somewhat oracular reputation.
I will avoid Wasserstein's transparent bias and animus toward Arendt as a stylist; he criticizes matters that range from her «Teutonic style» to her «oracular prose» to her «half acknowledgment» or presumed duplicitous laundering of the efforts of Alfred Kazin.
For a time, The Map assumed oracular status.
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.
1 - 2 A series of oracular indictments (of Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah, and Israel) climaxed in the final oracle against Israel.
Chapters 36 - 39 are narrative rather than oracular material, paralleled in II Kings 18 - 20.
It is in the context of this Hegelian mystique of belatedness, I think, that one can best make sense of the later writings of Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976), and especially of their sonorously oracular impenetrability, by turns so mesmerizing and so infuriating.
The three short oracles in 24:204 are of other and later origin than the four major oracles, which (conventionally seen as E or JE) are certainly not later than the eighth century, betray characteristics of the tenth - century monarchy, and may rest on still older oracular models.
Lanthimos's mode of riffing in a stiff, oracular manner can seem compelling and oddly funny, at least for a half - hour or so, even to skeptics like myself.
But I'm a fan of Godin's ideas, energy and quasi oracular vision, and I've been fascinated with digital storytelling in its diverse and perennially morphing potential for a decade.
They're not puzzles; they're more like oracular foretellings.»
Noting as far back as 1968 that many Abstract Expressionists died before striking it rich, while most Pop artists experienced a more profitable fate, Steinberg delivered himself of the following oracular pronouncement during one memorable lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York:
More than a decade of ontologically oracular and hilariously hyper - cogitated collaborative moviemaking has proven Ryan Trecartin to be a major and enduring force of contemporary culture — the flux capacitor powering our collective travels through various virtual realities.
Beuys, a Luftwaffe pilot during the war, issued oracular utterances and talked mystically about abolishing the distinctions between art and life.
Interestingly, an algorithm has been developed by MIT researchers in order to figure out oracular patterns in not - so - familiar data, which has been performing better than most of the combined human effort teams.
The tools, hefty software platforms that often require weeks of integration and a special department of analysts to interpret their oracular output, were expensive and also produced by big companies such as IBM and SAP.
The oracular and esoteric note is completely lacking in the few prophecies of the future which can be ascribed to him with any probability.
They are only 10 - 12 percent of the global population (says the oracular Wikipedia), but they count for much higher proportions of Nobel winners, for instance.
Praised by critics from The New Yorker to USA Today for her first novel, Arabian Jazz («an oracular tale that unfurls like gossamer»), Diana Abu - Jaber weaves with spellbinding magic a multidimensional love story set in the Arab - American community of Los Angeles.
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.
My acid tongue was legendary, my comments heart - stabbing, my views uncompromising, and my predictions sometimes even oracular.
I try to buy everything Anne Carson publishes; this obsession began a dozen years ago when I saw her read some poems at U.B.C. (She has this oracular way of speaking...) The writing itself is bracing and new in a way that always kicks my ass in the best possible way.
Her silence made her complicit, innocent as beasts, oracular.
Here is my oracular best.
What PostMod created is surprising, oracular, quietly thrilling, and — for my money — a revelatory kind of videogame.
The bulk of his lecture recalled the oracular voice of Stella's most famous statements, the series of lectures titled «Working Space.»
Among the many things of wonder in the Tate Modern's quietly intense Agnes Martin retrospective (to 11th October) are her oracular thoughts («The conscious mind is awareness of the sublime») her eccentric ways of living («I don't get up in the morning until I know exactly what I'm going to do.
The book, which Mr. Judd edited with Caitlin Murray, archivist for the Judd Foundation, shows Judd much more fully than ever before in all his ranges — philosophical, furious, dryly funny and oracular.
Vierstraete mentioned that Belgian collectors often bought such works soon after they were made, and well before they achieved their current fame and market status — further highlighting the oracular power of collectors here, and the strategy among Art Brussels dealers who bring work by emerging artists at reasonable prices, hoping to lure in risk - taking collectors.
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