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"prophetic" Definitions
  1. correctly stating or showing what will happen in the future
  2. like or connected with a prophet or prophets

572 Sentences With "prophetic"

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So, it looks like as -- Greg, when you -- prophetic.
Otherwise, that iconic ghost icon may prove all too prophetic.
That's my favorite halftime show because it was almost prophetic.
Faust 3 works in the same kind of prophetic capacity.
Today, the final moment of the video seems oddly prophetic.
Those numbers aren't reliably prophetic, but they can't be ignored.
SARA I think that is the most strangely prophetic song.
But in later prophetic books the divine voice grows quieter.
The prophetic model Wood's argument is that ISIS propaganda contains foundational narratives to re-establish the caliphate based on what is known as "the prophetic model" — emulating the prophet Muhammad and his immediate followers.
Today, just over 66 years after its release, it feels prophetic.
I'd say that particular introspection turned out to be quite prophetic.
The townspeople relied on her for plant remedies and prophetic wisdom.
No one could have known that they would become uncomfortably prophetic.
It is despairingly prophetic and deeply American in its paralyzed state.
Rarely has the decision to abstain from italics been so prophetic.
"Stop shooting us" transforms from a plea into a prophetic warning.
His amazing vision of the world facing climate change is prophetic.
To present-day Wall Street, it feels familiar and possibly prophetic.
Several years before his death, Heinz Pagels had a prophetic dream.
But he was right, and prophetic, and his confidence was infectious.
Others anticipate the news, providing a prophetic vision of our future.
In the summer of Charlottesville, it's prophetic, heartbreaking and pure genius.
He is one of the great prophetic voices of our era.
They will be remembered not just as heroic, but as prophetic.
But in an important, even prophetic way, that is what they are.
All these partisan rebels had something in common besides their prophetic influence.
The concerned mom leading the banning effort didn't see its prophetic relevance.
The scarier part, unfortunately, is how much the game looks increasingly prophetic.
Batman's way too long Inception-style prophetic dream sequence left me wanting.
It's catchy, it's the right kind of arrogant confidence, and it's prophetic.
Few movies are so confident in their confusion or so weirdly prophetic.
But his prophetic intuitions made him something of a hero to Perl.
Eventually, he cannot handle the prophetic visions and blinds himself to it.
But never were more prophetic words uttered in the world of sports.
In her hands, Leonard Cohen's ominous, sarcastic "Everybody Knows" sounded bitterly prophetic.
TL;DR: Dany took this prophetic message to mean that she was infertile.
The eclipse even has our no-nonsense nerds sounding like vague, prophetic philosophers.
But even with P SCAN and the prophetic library, the task is huge.
The lyrics kind of sound prophetic, based on everything you've been going through.
But this 1999 award ceremony speech is both weirder and more broadly prophetic.
" But in a prophetic comment, Clinton warns Putin "could get squishy on democracy.
But now, I tend to think of it the whole book as prophetic.
It qualifies among the eeriest documents in American political history, merry yet prophetic.
Many on social media, including Oswalt, have noted how eerily prophetic it was.
Then, such an idea was radical; now, of course, it feels eerily prophetic.
Here there are lessons we can take from Du Bois's extraordinary, prophetic history.
In this respect, God's Machine Gun was tragically prophetic of our modern world.
Pomerantsev's book about Russia suddenly seemed prophetic about the rest of the world.
It feels like a prophetic vision of a future that never quite arrived.
Pomerantsev's book about Russia suddenly seemed prophetic about the rest of the world.
And we invite them back to the black prophetic tradition after Obama leaves.
Doughboy's statement felt prophetic in the early '90s, and still does decades later.
George Orwell's 22017 turns 70 this June, yet it feels more prophetic than ever.
You know, there are some people that have that deep baritone, a prophetic voice.
" In 2011, Brophy posted the aforementioned prophetic essay on the blog "See Jane Publish.
Maybe that prophetic Twitter user was right after all about the apocalypse being nigh.
NADA Art Fair was no exception—it had its own prophetic piece as well.
Now, the message of hedonism and carpe noctem seem either prophetic or tragically ironic.
Ahead, we've rounded up our favorite and most prophetic products for each star sign.
When she sings, "So fuck a fantasy, this your motherfucking moment," it feels prophetic.
Wright said that he's been accused of being prophetic -- or at least prescient, before.
Some of its dystopian predictions about the rollback of reproductive rights now seem prophetic.
One Boston journalist proved it on Saturday morning, with his own impressively prophetic tweet.
" Singer comments: "Marx got it wrong, and Bakunin's 'nightmares about authority' were grimly prophetic.
The team hopes to develop prophetic limbs for other animals such as turtles and crocodiles.
We also know he has the ability of greensight, which means he has prophetic dreams.
As foreign correspondent for the Independent, his somber analysis has proved prophetic over the years.
So what led to the rise of the black preacher and shaped King's prophetic voice?
Randolph brought into her prophetic vision her tasks as preacher, missionary, organizer, suffragist and pastor.
More than four decades and several wars later, I would describe these fears as prophetic.
Reflecting on "The Boys of Summer", we can't help but see it as sadly prophetic.
This is now seen as prophetic, but at the time, Dr. Broecker was an outlier.
Mr. Valdez was not planning to be prophetic when he began the painting last November.
His words, befitting a man who had transformed our comprehension of the universe, were prophetic.
Here's a partial history of the prophetic year that somehow never passes into the past.
It's a weird, prophetic song that I willed the life I have today into existence.
The Paris terrorist attacks of January 2015 made Kepel's emphasis look not alarmist but prophetic.
Now, looking back on the progress we've made this decade, the song feels downright prophetic.
Those churches have worked to create a clear separation between the prophetic and the pastoral.
Programming note: For more about Cramer's prophetic rant, watch "Mad Money" tonight at 6 p.m.
"The play was not prophetic," Andersson tells us, chiding us for our conventional narrative expectations.
He admitted, though, that the prophetic vision didn't account for the Switch's key innovation: portability.
"This let the walker tap into the prophetic power of the season," the article said.
But from the vantage point of its January 2018 premiere, it feels prescient, almost prophetic.
"That they are both in power at the same time … heightens the prophetic expectation," she said.
The group goes by the name Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama, or "followers of the prophetic tradition".
"I wish the words had not been so prophetic," Lee said in an interview on Wednesday.
" He then added a statement that would prove prophetic: "I'll be on ESPN for a month.
What is "1984" if not a brilliant, prophetic and profoundly alarming example of fantasy/sci-fi?
She quotes Old Testament prophets from memory; several people described her to me as prophetic herself.
And her books aren't just getting the prestige TV treatment: They're being treated as prophetic texts.
The same would appear to be true of Ludlam's dated but strangely prophetic early theater work.
And so Dworkin, so profoundly out of fashion just a few years ago, suddenly seems prophetic.
William Butler Yeats's prophetic phrase, "A terrible beauty is born," doesn't do justice to Zeller's drawings.
Genet's oratorical strategy, a full-scale assault on the toxic apathy of white liberals, remains prophetic.
We heard him take the class on a tangent about the prophetic wisdom of the rapper Biggie.
But there's admiration and maybe even nostalgia mixed in, even if it feels like a prophetic omen.
"Economic injustice is a major theme -- if not the major theme -- of the prophetic tradition," said Brueggemann.
The SNL parody, silly as it was, was a little prophetic for Taylor's pack of celebrity friends.
His words may seem prophetic in hindsight, but his triumphs at Chelsea happened by calculation and design.
That seemed prophetic at the time: Eventually, in this season, we would see a showdown of sorts.
Carlson said Schiff went into a trance as he delivered a "prophetic version" of what was said.
This distinctive terminology describing how internet users would get information was in equal parts prophetic and motivated.
Feet away, the rocks hang from the ceiling casting a prophetic, cracked shadow mirroring the horse's silhouette.
"What Bruce Springsteen is to New Jersey as a prophetic voice, Cohen is to Montreal," he said.
An aggressive edge in this dance music proves prophetic: Soon we see Charles enduring a brutal hazing.
One takeaway is that those remarks were classic campaign-trail drivel, neither deeply felt nor remotely prophetic.
A preacher in the prophetic tradition, King knew he could never proclaim hope without lifting people up.
From the toppest floors you get a vision of that in the significant sunsets and prophetic dawns.
My Quaker faith calls me to speak truth for a prophetic vision of justice, grounded in love.
Essentially, Bran is a modern-day, human greenseer — someone who can both warg and have prophetic visions.
Amazingly, this one, posted six years ago, is just as prophetic (and technically accomplished) as the new one.
Ben Gurion's prophetic words ring true today as Beersheba, Israel's southern capital, is morphing into a tech oasis.
In the words of her fellow prophetic blonde Britney Spears, Buffy was the ringleader; she called the shots.
Heralded as the prophetic leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. King has been iconicized through multiple lenses.
Winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee can be pivotal for the champion and, in some cases, almost prophetic.
"We are familiar with Guy Debord's prophetic 1967 work 'The Society of the Spectacle,'" Boucheron declares in passing.
Do you think audiences will look back on the show as a cautionary tale or something that's prophetic?
Powerclaw looks like yet another dumb idea right now, but it could look prophetic in decades to come.
Then there's Keanu Reeves, who plays the prophetic savior who beats death in his quest to save humanity.
These most prophetic interests have a way of choosing a person, rather than that person choosing the interest.
He decided this 15 years ago after having what he describes as prophetic dreams of a past life.
In 2016, the show feels eerily prophetic, a quality that many seem to suggest is its most impressive.
In a moment, with almost prophetic intuition, the reality was revealed to us: we had reached the bottom.
And "Dheepan," Jacques Audiard's tale of survival, is almost prophetic in its portrayal of the European refugee crisis.
But even those greats may not have had quite the prophetic skills of Ms. Dwan, or her range.
As it turned out, Judge's words were not so much sunny-side-up piffle as they were prophetic.
But all I had done as a traveler was record what I saw: Writing the truth is prophetic.
Leonardo's gloomy predictions for the future of the planet appear more prophetic in the age of climate change.
He is rabbinical, prophetic; but he is also, in his bigness and his emotion, like a giant mother.
The prophetic is any discussion, particularly from the pulpit, that invokes politics or larger systems of social injustice.
Most prophetic is the difference between the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds and three-month Treasury bills.
I believe that it is the parcel of a Socratic and prophetic way of being in the world.
Others are to amplify Ms. Monk's prophetic depictions of a fragile environment now increasingly threatened by climate change.
I wouldn't take any polling to be prophetic, and Sanders has proven himself a uniquely effective health care messenger.
The fourth season, based on this new information, promises to be just as creepy, and probably just as prophetic.
Now, it's just a prophetic enactment of 2017 politics — the show is just all too familiar, even in imagery.
The Fosters' Ximena (Lisseth Chavez) is exactly one of these children, leaving an uncomfortably prophetic taste in viewers' mouths.
But, in the world we've ended up with, there's still great weight and significance to Sagan's now-prophetic writing.
The fact that niche players have forged ahead with new programs doesn't necessarily make Landgraf's appraisal any less prophetic.
Indeed, the best of African-American preaching is three-dimensional–it is priestly, it is sage, it is prophetic.
They brought a distinctive form of prophetic preaching that united spiritual transformation with social reform and confronted black dehumanization.
In retrospect, Epic's blog seems prophetic: "Fortnite: Battle Royale" is outrageously popular, eclipsing the original game its built upon.
While he ultimately failed, Byoto's "vision of an internationalized Thai monkhood would in many ways prove prophetic," Ford writes.
In "The Underground Railroad," he talks about racial progress, and its limits, in a more direct, even prophetic way.
His concession words back then could turn out to be prophetic: "People haven't seen the last of Jeff Weaver."
Willis called him a visionary, and indeed he's been at times prophetic, but what he does is not literary.
For many evangelicals, only a fully Jewish Jerusalem will satisfy the prophetic preconditions necessary for the desired end times.
" In a line that could now become prophetic, Gorsuch declared "Maybe the time has come to face the behemoth.
Quotation from the man himself (which would prove fairly prophetic): "To me, change is for the good," O'Neal said.
Her prophetic warnings about the importance of fighting for freedom over "playing house" only resonate for June in retrospect.
Fans, and clubs, see Guardiola as a managerial paradigm: consumed by prophetic zeal, purveyor of a distinct, unequivocal style.
Then again, there may be no particular moment of prophetic reckoning for the latter-day apostles of Schmittian politics.
In a prophetic scene, Bimala invites Miss Gilby to visit the kitchen while a festive dinner is being prepared.
"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
It was seemingly prophetic; around the same time the episode was released, a "Yelp for people" emerged from Silicon Valley.
But it's almost served as an erasure of the prophetic work that people were doing, you know, before the 1980s.
After 5 seasons and dozens of eerily prophetic storylines, CBS is bringing Person of Interest to an end, Mashable confirms.
Dream diaries are some of the oldest examples of literature, and dreams in the Bible are often treated as prophetic.
Miller: I think people will look back on this show and see it both as a cautionary tale and prophetic.
This prophetic silent horror from Germany told the story of a wicked doctor who uses a sleepwalker to commit murders.
Earlier this week, Siva Vaidhyanathan, the author of Antisocial Media, gave an interview that seems deeply prophetic just days later.
In this, Texas (where even Trump won more than a third of the Hispanic vote), not California, may be prophetic.
Mr. Page doesn't affect a prophetic grandiosity — he is just an ordinary guy blundering along with the rest of us.
More than that, as the prophetic "weird sisters" of "Macbeth" make clear, she has the power to drive the plot.
Fiver (Nicholas Hoult), a runt troubled by prophetic visions, persuades his brother Hazel (James McAvoy) that their warren is doomed.
So we dwell on our choices, particularly on the major prophetic decisions that we feel our whole lives revolve around.
Was my parents' choice of my name prophetic or did it in some small way nudge me toward my future?
Gibson is a man renowned for his prophetic creativity, but he can't imagine his way out of our civilizational predicament.
Because Jesus addressed the very problems that haunt us today and established a prophetic wisdom perfectly fit for our times.
But much about Stanley Kubrick's "20123: A Space Odyssey," which was released 50 years ago this week, has proved prophetic.
When yearbooks were issued, Kobe's buddy asked him to sign the autograph page ... and what Mamba wrote was pretty prophetic.
Racial oppression is changing, bringing with it new victims, new forms of victimization and a lack of unifying, prophetic voices.
The expansion of government as a police state and the failure of it to downsize elsewhere is proving them prophetic.
In a prophetic turn, he did an internship in the New York offices of Aeffe, the company that owns Moschino.
Harris' candidacy is prophetic of what the future of this country looks like — particularly when my generation runs for office.
To see President Trump, or any president for that matter, as some sort of prophetic figure is bizarre at best.
On Saturday night, Belichick praised his offensive coordinator, Josh McDaniels, for being nearly prophetic as he called plays against Kansas City.
And so he should: These prophetic stories are still powerfully relevant to a majority of people who live in the region.
The most straightforward prophetic moment in episode 5 finally saw the reoccurring vision of dragon wings over King's Landing come true.
Though prophetic in many ways, Barlow's dreams of a borderless free and equal internet seem more impossible with each passing year.
Suddenly a prophetic gust of wind comes out of nowhere, knocks the hat off my head and directly into the water.
But despite his prophetic remarks, the world had no way of knowing that this fertilizer would literally come from thin air.
His boast months ago that he could shoot someone on 5 th Avenue and not lose any voters was perhaps prophetic.
"The societal and legal context within which the pastoral and prophetic ministry of the church takes place has shifted," it notes.
We like to switch up the style between books focused on a given company, a prophetic leader or a particular philosophy.
The answer she provided was prophetic: Fox News can turn a nobody into a star—but only of a certain size.
It seems as though the more times a word is typed, the deeper and more complex the creepy, prophetic message becomes.
Those who were right will trumpet their prophetic insight and ascend as soothsayers; those who were wrong will simply keep quiet.
"This fire is a prophetic message, it is a call for repentance," said Josiane, a retired shop assistant and devout Christian.
Even the Leaf was simply a means to a greater end: the alliance&aposs prophetic dominance in a world going electric.
In that post-election news conference in 2016, Zakharova, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said something that sounds eerily prophetic in hindsight.
But to separate his word of inspiration from his prophetic instruction is to risk reducing him from prophet to motivational speaker.
Such a device could arrive in 2021, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who is known for his prophetic Apple predictions.
When churches move from being independent vehicles for political causes and become arms of political parties, they lose their prophetic voice.
We saw that happen in advance of Season 3, and I'm already seeing a few online that may prove to be prophetic.
This ghost had prophetic dreams and asked for the song as payment from the Brotherhood Without Banners for telling them her dreams.
A believer in the prophetic power of dreams, Gustafson decided to find out more about the mesmerizing reddish rock she had seen.
The opening track sees Mr Cohen proclaim "Hineni, hineni, I'm ready, my lord": it seemed prophetic then, and even more so now.
In a sense, his words proved prophetic: today, open-source software is everywhere, from websites to financial markets to self-driving cars.
I'm not exactly a "prophetic" person where things just crawl into my head like that so I thought I'd listen to it.
"Marco Rubio", Jeb Bush once said, "makes me cry," a remark that would have been prophetic had he not added "for joy".
"Such findings suggest that we are witnessing a prophetic example of life imitating art imitating life," write the authors in the study.
Despite any apparent parallels between Atwood's dystopian universe and the current presidency, she said her book was never intended to be prophetic.
Over the years the man who famously made today's equivalent of over $50,000 as a teenager has uttered some pretty prophetic statements.
In a moment of clear emotional pain, Stark mocks Captain America from 2015's Age of Ultron by repeating his prophetic claim.
Put simply, Floral Shoppe taught us a new way of listening to music, one as absurd and surreal as it is prophetic.
Still, the timetable remained ambitious for a top-to-bottom redesign, and the warnings of Higginbotham, Camara and the consultant proved prophetic.
Then a shaman has a prophetic dream and sends them on a mission to save the tree of souls from imminent destruction.
He is perhaps best known for his prophetic investment notes, which correctly warned about the financial crisis and the dot-com bubble.
Traditionally, 70 years is taken to mean "the length of one generation," and the prophetic writings invoke that length exactly seven times.
Bookended by ads for Trojan condoms and Malibu Ultra Light cigarettes, the lengthy interview in Playboy magazine is a remarkably prophetic document.
"In the City of Killing" compacts in its lines a discourse of national grief and prophetic wrath, a lamentation and a jeremiad.
Given how prophetic Lippmann's critique was, you'd expect American democracy to have collapsed under the weight of its own incoherence by now.
The writers of this series, not always the subtlest bunch, may have retroactively given Abramson greater prophetic powers than she actually had.
As portrayed by Phoenix, he is often disheveled and remote, more the prophetic Man of Sorrows than the exalted King of Kings.
"When he looks at a glass, he is mesmerized by its reflection," he wrote in a prophetic short essay in Cigar Aficionado.
In a retrospectively prophetic twist of fate, Buckingham Palace explained why weeks before the world learned that Harry and Meghan wanted out.
William Gibson's science fiction is so eerily prophetic that sometimes it seems as if he's creating the future, not just imagining it.
The timing was prophetic — little did I know that an a-hole there was plying their trade with very little company intervention.
The melodies Phillips strummed on his lyre-like instrument mellow the prophetic condemnations, like a soapbox preacher standing next to a carousel ride.
The show, which debuted in New York City in December, shares the title of Bowie's prophetic final music video, which debuted last week.
Hey, if we knew the answer to that one, we'd extend our prophetic talents to something much more worthwhile, like predicting lottery numbers.
He's known for his prophetic notes, which have warned about the 2008 financial crisis and the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.
The title proved to be prophetic as fans on Twitter seemed unable to find enough words of praise for the Grammy-winning artist.
So, like a modern day Salome, Kathy Griffin has served up an image that is stark and offensive but also may be prophetic.
A casual comment from his unwelcome guest Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.) about "mutant worms" ravaging the world turns out to be surprisingly prophetic.
In other words, King used a prophetic voice in his preaching–the hopeful voice that begins in prayer and attends to human tragedy.
What follows, instead, is Baldwin's strong, personal point of view on the question at hand, told in a voice that now seems prophetic.
The investigation was named Operation Glauco, for Glaucus, a Greek deity with prophetic powers who came to the rescue of sailors in peril.
It's the kind of gesture that feels wild and romantic — and at the same time, completely prophetic of their horrible relationship to come.
Cornell, one of the most powerful, soulful, eclectic voices of his generation, wrote some eerily prophetic words about David Bowie's death last year.
The once-comforting relationship advice has turned out to be a prophetic and overwhelming reality in the world of app and online dating.
As product after product flashed across the screen at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the language used to describe them was almost prophetic.
In 1555, Michel de Nostredame, or Nostradamus, published "Les Prophéties," a collection of nearly 1,000 prophetic and poetic quatrains (four-line rhyming verses).
The 2014 play "King Charles III," in which a fictional Prince Harry wants to leave the royal family, has proved to be prophetic.
The 2001 Times article concluded by quoting Dr. Gubser again — words that his wife, Dr. Landweber, said turned out to be strangely prophetic.
If Wilder's prophetic in his devastating KO prediction over Ortiz ... he's got a blueprint that'll make him unified heavyweight champion of the world.
I really just love layering my films with prophetic details that I hope encourage more active engagement on the part of the viewer.
And when politicians co-opt the pulpit, they pervert Scripture's prophetic message, delimiting faith's concerns to the narrowness of their partisan political agenda.
But at its January premiere, it felt prescient, almost prophetic — and the months since have only continued to prove how important it is.
Warning about the "military-industrial complex" makes him cool in a darkly prophetic sort of way, and the whole "defeating Hitler" thing was good.
But its combination of hand-drawn and digital animation was revolutionary, and its vision of a populace connected telepathically to the internet was prophetic.
Even when his language is at its most elevated and prophetic, humility and an ardent humanity are threaded through the whole of his output.
Hence, the first internet message was "Lo" as in "Lo and behold" – inadvertently, we had delivered a message that was succinct, powerful, and prophetic.
Wiley: (laughs) I hope, with every piece of me, that it is something that could be prophetic but ends up being a warning sign.
"He just walked through, in a really prophetic way, how the emergence of the microprocessor was going to transform society," Markoff said of Evans.
It's a very prophetic vision of where things are going which is eerie because I wrote it way before the whole Brexit thing happened.
She's been interested in the role of prophecy in Game of Thrones, comparing the High Sparrow and the Red Woman to ancient prophetic traditions.
During our conversation about racing's ins and outs, Reddam was prophetic when he spoke about the trainer he most admired heading into Saturday's race.
"Arguments continued over the use of technologies such as 'cookies' that collect marketing information as people browse the Web," says the prophetic WSJ reporter.
For a long stretch of Western history, few people would have found it odd to ascribe prophetic power to this collection of Latin verse.
With a crippling course load of 21 credit hours, which I was not permitted to reduce, I was certain that his words were prophetic.
The seemingly prophetic figure is the only individual featured in Lewis' book and the film who allowed the filmmakers to use his real name.
We are so habituated to being the prophetic minority that we cannot understand that a majority of the country is swinging against the war.
Some of the key characteristics revealed in the study, namely gender, nationality, and educational background, are less prophetic and more symptomatic of socioeconomic barriers.
Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of demagogues everywhere.
Confidence in the prophetic power of maths was then confirmed over and over again, up to the triumphant discovery of the long-predicted Higgs.
In "A Better Place," Moshfegh edges into the fantastical mode, creating the character of a young girl with a prophetic voice that strains verisimilitude.
But others have stood the test of time, and this is primarily because they've given warnings that are deemed by later generations as prophetic.
His first published work was a bold and prophetic 93 art review championing Delacroix, whom he saw as the perfect artistic representation of the age.
This one was written back in 2014, by one Kyle Walker, in Deadspin, and its scathing, take-no-prisoners real-time analysis was downright prophetic.
Tintoretto is properly identified with epic narratives, such as a supremely powerful "The Deposition of Christ" (circa 1562), which is especially prophetic of the Baroque.
So hold onto your butts, because other leaks and hints (not to mention Dany's prophetic vision, as seen above) indicate we'll see that crumble, too.
In 2005, Soderbergh made Bubble, which was mostly considered a head-scratching choice at the time but a mere 12 years later seems almost prophetic.
"What Bruce Springsteen is to New Jersey as a prophetic voice, Cohen is to Montreal," said the cantor at the synagogue his family helped found.
We've seen him experience prophetic dreams and take control of others' bodies — but only this season have we witnessed his ability to travel through time.
She conveys the innate sense of queerness (as in otherness) typical of prophetic figures, who partook both of the human and of the divine space.
My work on African-American prophetic preaching shows that King's clarion calls for justice were offspring of earlier prophetic preaching that flowered as a consequence of the racism in the U.S. First, let's look at some of the social, cultural and political challenges that gave birth to the black religious leader, specifically those who assumed political roles with the community's blessing and beyond the church proper.
The voice cast is excellent, particularly Cranston as a gruff stray and Tilda Swinton as a prophetic pug ("She can understand the TV," another dog marvels).
The gobsmacked guests stumbled through interviews with Kimmel, shell-shocked selfies and the prophetic whispers of Ryan Gosling, and we could've done without any of it.
But looking back, this shot of the Samsung's infamous premier phablet lying upside down in a pool of water like a drowned corpse became vaguely prophetic.
The words of House Stark have always sounded ominous, and now that the threat of the White Walkers has been realized they are even more prophetic.
While both novels were hailed as prophetic, The Handmaid's Tale focuses on something neither 1984 nor Brave New World do: women's place in the dystopian future.
Moss' approach to preaching is steeped in what he calls the "blue note gospel," a message shaped by the fiery prophetic tradition of the black church.
Over time, my phobia shifted to become about crying itself — which then made it inevitable that I would cry, in that prophetic way anxiety manifests itself.
His appeals continue incessantly, and Vatican officials say that even if he is losing the political argument, his is a prophetic message that will not stop.
O, the prophetic soul of Mr. Stoppard, whose younger self has resurfaced as both the poet laureate and court jester of our addled age of confusion.
The painted slogan repeats Islamic State's imperial promise to its followers that it will conquer Rome — a line from the prophetic texts that animate their movement.
It reads like the internet before the internet, a kind of prophetic text for the legions of smart, introspective Tumblr girls and women yet to come.
They know all too well that Trump made a statement during the campaign which seems to be unassailable and unfortunately totally true and — most worrisome — prophetic.
A genre-bender and a prophetic force in music since the late 3046s, Peacock is one of the most riveting — though overlooked — vocal performers in jazz.
Into this mix came Mr. Cahn's latest book, "The Paradigm," which could be his most polarizing, tying his prophetic work to the election of Donald Trump.
A singer-songwriter with a statuesque stage presence, Wise has a voice that is both strong and ethereal, which befits Iokanaan's prophetic utterances throughout the play.
They are known as Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah (Arabic for "followers of the prophetic tradition"), though locals also refer to them as al-Shabab ("the youth").
Like a cursed madwoman in classical myth, Yeong-hye seems both eerily prophetic and increasingly unhinged when she begins starving herself, hoping to transform into a tree.
Commecy and his team treat the building's expansive side to the prophetic faces of the French Renaissance, one of which is author, physician, and future-teller, Nostradamus.
In it, Goldman coined the phrase "Follow the money," a line so famously prophetic that many people incorrectly think whistleblower Deep Throat said it in real life.
Drake and Lil Wayne – Birdman, Priceless, 2009 "We gon' be alright if we put Drake on every hook": Has Lil Wayne ever rapped a more prophetic line?
I'm not ascribing prophetic powers to him, but at a few points in Lomax's career he did make some prescient calls, and this is one of them.
Pozdnyshev's prophetic mission — and Tolstoy's — is to let us know that there are no happy families and every unhappy family is unhappy in precisely the same way.
"The timing is prophetic — you can't visit here and not think about what's going on today, and the sense of history and struggle," said a Maryland pastor.
That Watanabe, an intentional outsider, can pinpoint exactly the axis around which the rest of the insular fashion world is turning gives his collections a prophetic quality.
Whereas in every other scriptural tale political engagements are under prophetic instruction, in the Persian court God gives no guidance to the Jews facing a terrible danger.
That assurance by the police commander on July 17, 2014, has, so far, turned out to be as prophetic as Mr. Garner's last words that same afternoon.
Its prophetic evocation of a world in which news is showbiz and showbiz is news seems like a perfect fit for our screen-filled, headline-screaming times.
The prophetic nature of some of the song lyrics are not lost on Cave, nor on his wife, who is superstitious about their sons as it is.
Year: 1998, at the 40th Grammy AwardsWhat beat it: "Time Out of Mind" by Bob DylanRadiohead's groundbreaking "OK Computer" was so perceptive that it was downright prophetic.
They are as connected to the lake as the name implies, and for practical, cultural, historic and even prophetic reasons, they are determined to keep it pristine.
Manzo's words appeared prophetic to Cohen, but Teresa saw them as "sad" — and an indication that Manzo might have been behind her and Joe's trouble with the feds.
In that prophetic work he imagined nativists leading his country into a "garrison-state mentality", even as other, more doveish Americans are tempted by "self-righteous cultural hedonism".
Famed for his prophetic abilities, many are claiming he predicted Hillary Clinton would win the US presidential election, citing a Facebook post which can no longer be found.
" She continued, "Trump's polarizing effect on American politics therefore fits neatly into Robertson's prophetic framework, which paradoxically anticipates chaos as a manifestation of God's control over human history.
Anyway, Twitter user Jon Keegan stumbled upon an oddly prophetic Trivial Pursuit card from that ancient time that quite astutely summed up the year 2017 and our president.
Cohen wrote the underrated Tropic Thunder and the sadly prophetic Idocracy, and made his directorial debut with the Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart vehicle Get Hard last year.
Today, with Donald J. Trump, whose election Mr. Bannon helped engineer, on the threshold of power, the 93 film "In the Face of Evil" has a prophetic ring.
Federal health officials allowed the group, called On Lok — Cantonese for "peaceful, happy abode" — to test what was then a novel and prophetic approach to health care financing.
But Y2K failed to bring us back to the Stone Age and, despite Prince's prophetic exhortations, we pretty much partied the same as we did every other year.
I don't see anything from the prophetic tradition that would support WMD's or less destructive forms of weaponry that cannot discriminate between friend and foe, victimizer and bystander.
"There is now no doubt that what he started was a courageous, prophetic, self-sacrificial act that has captivated a nation and inspired a powerful movement," he added.
Ms. Ruff (recently seen in the Off Broadway hit "Fairview") defines the contours of that life with a completeness that feels both in-the-moment and heartbreakingly prophetic.
That combination of artistry and precision seems prophetic, as both Irving and his younger brother, Arthur (who became a celebrated movie director), would make their names using cameras.
"If the cladding cannot resist the spread of flame across the surface, then it will vertically envelop the building," Mr. Evans warned, in testimony that now seems prophetic.
Mr. Robot felt downright prophetic when it debuted in 2015, with its tales of angry, alienated young men and a political system rigged even in the case of revolution.
The politics of the megaphone – the appeal of shrill rhetoric, oversimplification, prophetic fantasy, and facile name-calling – appealed to constituencies hungry for solutions, however simplistic, strident, or supposedly 'final'.
Between interstitial classroom skits, Hill flows between Christian paeans, prophetic gloom-and-doom proclamations, a critique of the music business, laments to lost potential, and a few love songs.
No matter how many furs I wear or how much wisdom I demonstrate, all of Winterfell, including my newly prophetic brother, seems to see me as some pitiable child.
The prophets tended to emerge from the peripheries at moments of chaos and change, said the theologian, whose book "The Prophetic Imagination" has been a seminary staple since 1978.
In some ways, Nightcrawler feels like one of the most prophetic movies of the decade, as if it could see where we were headed long before we ever arrived.
Spurred on by prophetic dreams, a soldier named Orhan leads soldiers to the empire's capital, where they intend to kill the Emperor and rebuild civilization from the ground up.
" In words that would prove prophetic, Clinton argued that should she run for president in 2016 the content "cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff.
This orphaned concept comedy has evolved into a weirdly prophetic guide to living through and eventually rejecting the unthinkable, which makes it unexpectedly apt for our current cultural moment.
It's a veiled, crouched, scarcely human figure who turns out to be the doom-saying, grief-maddened, prophetic Queen Margaret (played by that fine, Tony-winning actress Marie Mullen).
It's one of the reasons that Richard Rorty's " Achieving Our Country " (1998) has, however improbably, become so significant, quite beyond its prophetic predictions of an approaching working-class nihilism.
But the simple ad still stands up today and was prophetic in showing the way the device would come to be engrained as part of our every day lives.
A generically Fauvist portrait of Diego painted that year pictures a dapper, stiffly alert young man, standing straight in a way that feels faintly prophetic of Giacometti's eventual sculpture.
The gesture proved prophetic: within a decade, surging Pop art and minimalism had rendered de Kooning and his many followers, in the eyes of art-world cognoscenti, pitiably passé.
Bifatima claims that she first had prophetic visions at the age of 11, and they led her, after thousands of miles on foot, to the Sacred Hill in Ungurtas.
Yes, the great-grandmother of all science-fiction cinema demands concentration, but there are few films as prophetic when it comes to the humanitarian challenges posed by artificial intelligence.
Not so for Maier, who told a friend that "if she had not kept her images secret, people would have stolen or misused them" — how prophetic that now seems.
As he waits for news of her, Viktor has a prophetic dream about a room whose inhabitants have left all of a sudden, in the middle of the night.
Ms. Holt and Mr. Joseph both give prickly, believable performances, but they have to spend a lot of time in the early going arguing, explaining and having prophetic visions.
The move proved prophetic as over the next three minutes of play, Cleveland outscored Golden State 10-5, hitting a few comical 3-pointers and regaining their momentum entirely.
Gerard Robinson: The path to the mountaintop isn't always straight Fifty years ago, this week, America lost a prophetic voice to a gun shot in the city of Memphis.
Yet against critics who deemed both men sellouts and self-haters for desiring to remain in some sense French, Wilder argues that their vision was complex and potentially prophetic.
The image of the cathedral morphing into an Alpine ridge, with its cliffs, pinnacles and gorges, dates to 1958; 61 years later, the picture turns out to be prophetic.
Moreover, many of the uses of "shall" in the prophetic writings in the Bible are descriptions of God's divine will and not necessarily prohibitions or obligations of specific behavior.
When seen together, the two exhibitions make a powerful case for viewing Horn as fairy tale prophetic in her invocations, and richly relevant to current electronic and mechanical realities.
In hindsight, the words of Justices Brennan, O'Connor and Kennedy seem prophetic, but whether the reindeer rule gets a third chance at the Supreme Court remains to be seen.
White Backlash is one of those books published before the 2016 elections that started to feel sharply prophetic as Donald Trump won the Republican nomination and then the presidency.
The often proffered adage that "history repeats itself" sent goosebumps down my spine the other night, as I was watching an especially prophetic 59-year-old Andy Griffith movie.
The attacks by the Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama, or "followers of the prophetic tradition", have drawn comparisons to Islamist groups in Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya and the Great Lakes region.
The film is, in fact, at least in its metaphors, quite prophetic: the world is almost destroyed, devastating numerous cities and cultures, yet is saved for its tortured survivors.
Left to their own devices, these pieces might seem like daydreams, but in light of Richards's death during the conflagration of the World Trade Center, they become downright prophetic.
XXXTentacion: Fans sang, grieved and left notes at public memorial The slightly more than 40-second clip finds the performer, who was born Jahseh Onfroy, speaking some eerily prophetic words.
Its final moment offers a note of prophetic dissent: As two percussionists symbolically ring 19 tubular bells, a third plays a rhythmic pattern based on a clave from West Africa.
Parts of the list have proven oddly prophetic, not least Rule 19: " The more you hate it, the stronger it gets", on which public figures have built careers in trolling.
The film also introduced the first moment of what I might call "The Shining Effect," where writers insert a prophetic or ESP character into an already sci-fi heavy plot.
This fictional favorite tells the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, who searches the world for the treasure he saw in a recurring dream he believes to be prophetic.
These prophetic texts speak to us not because of their accurate forecasting, but because of their rhetorical use of righteous anger in order to confront injustice and restore public morality.
How a group of Midwestern white kids who mumbled about "bitches" and unapologetically slept through interviews with the New York Times managed to make an album so prophetic is unclear.
Silver, in the conventional liberal recollection, used to be on the right side of history—a prophetic force guiding political punditry toward a bright new era of rigor and facts.
Yet his prominence as a public intellectual comes from a career-long rebellion against the pieties of liberal democracy, which, now that liberal democracy is in crisis worldwide, seems prophetic.
So when the pulpit no longer engages in prophetic, social justice preaching, then the poet and the playwright take on the mantle of what the church is afraid to do.
There's something Tumblr-esque about the way Hannah Baker spoke of depression on her suicide tapes—her every thought poignant, her poetry profound and prophetic for a 17-year-old.
Dr. King's work to dismantle white supremacy and economic injustice was rooted in his prophetic Christianity, shaped by the black radical tradition, the Social Gospel and the black freedom struggle.
He began "Brave New World" as a parody of H.G. Wells, whose writing he detested, and it remained a book that means to be as playful as it is prophetic.
It's fitting, then, that we're now looking to the clouds to see what the future holds, and maybe it's these prophetic associations that make news of their changes so eerie.
His mix of verse and prose, diary, comedy and accusation, grimy detail and prophetic announcement, seems to many young and not-so-young writers just what he, and we, need.
" Rabbi Goldburg's letter, excerpts from which were printed in Reform Judaism magazine in 2010, said Monroe admired the religion's "ethical and prophetic ideals and its concept of close family life.
The Upright Citizens Brigade was originally the name of a nefarious mega-corporation in a sketch from the group's very early days—a genesis that some might view as prophetic.
Seen today, these photographs of resilience in the face of devastation within the low-lying, river-permeated country seem prophetic of the calamitous effects of climate change and environmental degradation.
And we all expect Bran to have prophetic visions, but don't necessarily want him to win the Game of Game of Thrones just for going on a six-scene vision quest.
Part of this prophetic teaching is that all Jews must move to biblical Israel with Jerusalem as its capital — and then convert to Christianity — in order for the Messiah to come.
We should instead confront our frictions in the best spirit of 1787 – a spirit of intelligence, creativity, compromise, high principle and a prophetic regard for the liberty of those to come.
In the late 1980s, as the arts became fixated on the news, Mr Dodin immersed himself for three and a half years in "The Devils", Dostoyevsky's prophetic novel of nihilistic revolutionaries.
The caricature The broader stroke of historical legend and testimonials of revered intellectuals should serve as the true meaning of the prophetic model, not a caricature purported by throat-slitting zealots.
Here, Barker tells us how a prophetic New York Times review hooked Fey, what it's like watching a movie about your life, and what donkey porn can tell us about democracy.
But to the people here, John Frum's prophetic words were true, because suddenly American troops were arriving from a nearby island where they had set up a World War II base.
Dr. William J. Barber II, a minister and president of the North Carolina N.A.A.C.P., this is a civil rights movement modeled on the prophetic preaching and nonviolent tactics of the Rev.
The resulting film was prophetic in many ways: invaluable as a record of the convention, groundbreaking in its combination of documentary and fiction techniques, and forward-looking in its subject matter.
Visitors to the cave can learn about the story of Jesus making a bird from clay and six other prophetic miracles mentioned in the Quran, using 3D map and hologram displays.
And the play now feels prophetic in its portrait of resentful Americans, bewildered by a "zombie" economy built on "invisible money," trembling on the brink between the middle and lower classes.
Viewers may not make the connection to its prophetic vision of the future, just as we don't see, say, "The Front Page" as depicting the power of newspapers in 1920s America.
"There are a bunch of jokes about how we're going to have to shoo cats away and it's going to start to stink, and those might just be prophetic," Schur said.
Halfway through the clip, a prophetic-sounding voice (Dana White) speaks down to the UFC dominion announcing the return of the organization's centerpiece, at least for the women's side, Ronda Rousey.
Mr. De Niro's remarks may have been the night's most forceful, but the tone was typified by Mr. Springsteen singing the prophetic, gently bitter but ultimately resigned words of "My Hometown."
When they were applauding Trump, the students were not applauding a prophetic visionary but someone with a dangerous Pharaonic mentality, one who is intemperate, self-indulgent, power hungry, unpredictable and narcissistic.
In what you might call a prophetic speech, Nelson told Mormon millennials in 2016 that, in a society littered with "servants of Satan," only God's own prophets can be truly trusted.
By the Middle Ages, seizures had become associated less with prophetic insight and more with demonic activity, though some physicians held to the ancient idea of epilepsy as a natural disease.
More than 100,000 (a figure that included schoolboys and workmen from Brussels) were seized in the autumn of 1916 and deported to Germany in tightly packed and disturbingly prophetic cattle trucks.
More than a decade later, that somewhat prophetic tweet has more than 10,000 "likes" and nearly 5,000 retweets, but Messina tells CNBC the post mostly received "mixed reviews" at the time.
Ultimately, the timing of the decision to secure Friedman's files was somberly prophetic, as Friedman suffered a fatal heart attack in May while returning home from giving a UFO lecture in Ohio.
Those four words may turn out to be prophetic - but they should still set alarm bells ringing for policymakers, economists and financial market professionals, who consistently fail to call the next recession.
Fake news and demagoguery have stormed to the forefront of our social media feeds, a phenomenon we might be able to understand better by looking at McLuhan's prophetic observations of mass media.
McConnell told reporters earlier in the week that finding a way to get 50 votes for the tax package is like trying to solve a "Rubik's cube," and his words proved prophetic.
But Tocqueville became an important historical figure because he turned his meticulous diaries and reflections into the two-volume "Democracy in America" (1835, 1840), a prophetic book about the young United States.
In meditating on these questions, I have found that the prophetic voice of Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), a Polish-born Jewish-American rabbi and activist, can help us toward an answer.
It's a prophetic follow up to "19703 Baseball Terms That Will Make You a Better Crossword Solver," the first in a new Wordplay series designed to help solvers with topical weak spots.
He has inspired homages like Raoul Peck's documentary "I Am Not Your Negro" and Ta-Nehisi Coates's memoir "Between the World and Me." Baldwin's prophetic essays on race read like today's news.
Volcker's herograms would have been merited if it was clearly his courageous actions which broke the back of inflation, or if his prophetic voice had rated against the risks of financial excess.
In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we — especially the experts — are blind to them. 
The stars align for Nipsey Calling Nipsey a "prophetic soul," Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said the artist, born Ermias Asghedom, meant to hip-hop what Bob Marley meant to reggae.
Though her illness had yet to be diagnosed, there is a prophetic quality to her insistence on wanting to leave behind her something more enduring than a selection of glossy back pages.
In retrospect, such a retrograde philosophy has proved prophetic: Other companies that chased young customers by introducing a plethora of entry-level offerings realized too late how delicate a legacy can be.
What made Catch-22 slowly become a cultural phenomenon following its 1961 release was that Heller's text felt prophetic, as the US entered into the Cold War and the war in Vietnam.
This track record has led the show's legion of fans to think that "The Simpsons" is, at the very least, a product of television's most intelligent writers, and, at the most, prophetic.
The prophetic brilliance of Coneheads comes in the form of jingoistic Immigration and Naturalization Service agent Gorman Seedling (Michael McKean), a villain who reads more like a contemporary politician than a cartoonish buffoon.
I sent up a prophetic warning shot about this in my 1992 article, "The Corruption of the Humanities in the US," which was published in London and is reprinted in my new book.
Notable for his youth, Ahr blended rap with emo styling — the Times music writer Jon Caramanica called Ahr the "Kurt Cobain" of the SoundCloud rapper scene, a statement that today seems tragically prophetic.
In many ways, the show turned out to be prophetic; today we have printable food, video chats, smartwatches and robots that help with housework — and flying cars may even be on the way.
The film's failure could yet prove prophetic, as another spectacularly stylish entry in the franchise's history looms, threatening to have little impact on an audience finding no relatable substance beneath its attractive surface.
Although Frank Herbert's science fiction masterpiece Dune was released 51 years ago, the novel was almost prophetic in its anticipation of a future overly engaged with and dependent on immersive and intelligent technology.
The novel's title refers to a prophetic notebook, handed down to two of the characters, that predicts a time when the Native Americans of the Southwest and Mexico will reclaim their ancestral lands.
What makes John McGrail's 1982 Life magazine photograph emblematic is its inclusion of Denes, who holds a tall wooden staff (a prop from McGrail) and gazes into the distance with a prophetic squint.
Originally published in 2016, the novel feels prophetic, anticipating the new law in India that grants citizenship to migrants on the basis of religion, transforming it, in effect, into a Hindu nationalist state.
In that moment, a set of Instagram videos from the night before seemed prophetic: Nicki Minaj had had a homecoming all-white party in NYC, which could make for the perfect set up.
The post proved prophetic, as Robinson led the way in a 108-313 victory for the Knicks with 17 points, 14 rebounds, 6 blocks and 25.6 steals in 21984 minutes off the bench.
I am delighted that comedy writer and Twitter jokester Megan Amram is now a two-time Emmy nominee for the short-form program An Emmy for Megan, whose title is now almost prophetic.
"Apparently this was an eerily prophetic choice of engagement photo as our relationship has since gone the way of David and Liza, with one small exception: our split is amicable," DeLaria and Fairless wrote.
I didn't tell him at the time, but I think it's probably their best material yet—what could confirm The 1975 as the prophetic band many heard on A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships.
The feds come to Twin Peaks to solve what seems like a simple crime, but soon finds themselves being drawn into an ever more surreal world of dancing dwarves, prophetic giants, and haunting visions.
Zamyatin's bleak vision was forged in the ferment after the Russian revolution; but, with its prophetic reflections on climate change and surveillance culture, it is as relevant today as it was a century ago.
"Huma is humiliated again in new 'Weiner' doc," the Post's Barbara Hoffman declared in her review, which began, "Maybe it was prophetic that her parents named her Huma—close as it is to "humiliated.
The principle of delay works also with Mitchell's rhymes, which are often the off-the-rack, Tin Pan Alley pairings that Dylan would adopt and, in songs like "Desolation Row," deconstruct into prophetic nonsense.
"That book is one of the things every South African has in common," he said, alluding to Alan Paton's heartbreaking and prophetic 1948 novel, "Cry, the Beloved Country," which is still a touchstone here.
But precisely because of the ways that Atwood's novel plumbed and surfaced the specific anxieties of 1985, her story is necessarily time-bound and context-dependent and in certain ways more outdated than prophetic.
It owes a debt as well to the music of George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, with their prophetic lyrics in "Mothership Connection": Time to move on Light years in time Ahead of our time.
He even invokes himself as a significant character, painting himself as a kind of prophetic scribe who must write down all the worlds of the Dark Tower in order to keep their inhabitants alive.
Not just because it's a social satire that now seems sadly prophetic given the current state of American celebrity culture and politics, mind you — but if you ever needed a timely reason, you've got one.
Anyone who waited for Trump to pivot to be more "presidential" for the general election, the Washington Post's Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher write in a prophetic final line of their prologue, misunderstood the man.
The satirical film's superficially wacko plot involving an assassination attempt on the progressive prime minister of Malaysia to allow the fashion industry to retain cheap child labor in that country now seems kind of prophetic.
"When I woke up, it just felt prophetic," Jobe said, adding the dream felt very intentional from the Lord and it was only confirmed after she discussed it with other worship leaders at the time.
It tells the story of this character who is very prophetic with their dreams, but who also can be interpreted as someone who is very gender non-conforming and possibly a non-binary trans person.
But through the prophetic preaching tradition already well established by his time, King brought people of every tribe, class and creed closer toward forming "God's beloved community"–an anchor of love and hope for humankind.
Isaac Asimov, who died a quarter of a century ago, before the internet took off, invented a prophetic universe ruled by a group of "psychohistorians" who forecast humanity's future, using a set of complicated equations.
So naturally, he would once again recede into his mastermind cave, spend three years writing rhymes on a window like hip-hop's John Nash, and emerge with a project even more perfect and prophetic — right?
Since around 2003 he has turned from political theory and current affairs to a more philosophical, even prophetic, vein, producing numerous short books that take a very long—and glum—view of Western intellectual history.
In "Self-Portrait With Horn" (21971), he's wearing a red-and-black-striped robe, holding up a silver bugle and looking sideways, as if listening for a response to his prophetic signal of approaching apocalypse.
As the dispossessed Queen Margaret, whose prophetic curses haunt the play, Ms. Redgrave is not the usual shrieking harridan but a bone-weary old woman, whose madness is steeped in a quiet, blisteringly bitter fatalism.
Abraham Lincoln was a part of this prophetic culture, as was Martin Luther King Jr. John Brown was part of the apocalyptic one — as is, in its way, the new "cancel culture" of the left.
The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven each tell the story of Sanao Hekate's children: Mokoya, who has prophetic visions, and Akeha, who can innately understand what motivates people into action.
In "The Bird Thing," a wealthy family's live-in maid, who grew up amid poverty and mass killings, is haunted by her mother's prophetic warning: You'll think that you've gotten away, but they'll always come back.
"I think we all wake up every morning these days in this kind of shared global anxiety condition, and this novel is a beautiful distillation, or a prophetic distillation of that," said co-writer Luke Davies.
That might sound like a summary of the latest news about the White House, but it is also the plot of Burn After Reading, the 2008 film that stands as singularly prophetic of the Trump era.
Wasted has often been criticized for its (perhaps accidental) capacity as a how-to guide for the aspiring anorexic, and the fact that Hornbacher and I shared a hometown lent its tone an especially prophetic quality.
"Bring It Back" was prophetic, as it offered an argument for not just a reconsideration of Wayne's place in the canon but for a realignment of rap's regional hierarchy—both assessments that ultimately came to pass.
Stauffer's "Giants" showed us how much Douglass's prophetic force poked and prodded Lincoln toward righteousness, but Douglass himself was deeply affected by Lincoln's example of the power of liberal party politics to make real change happen.
In his prophetic 2013 book, the existential psychotherapist Kirk Schneider illuminated the concept of the polarized mind — that mind which is so rigidly fixed and polarized that any competing point of view must be utterly annihilated.
Forty years ago he sat down with Michael Barber for "John le Carré: An Interrogation," in which he proved himself not just a master of spy fiction but a sharp analyst who effortlessly delivers prophetic commentary.
To me, this diarrhea scene proved prophetic: Over the decade, Americans elected Trump, white nationalism returned with a bang, Amazon and Facebook conquered the world, the climate crisis kept accelerating, and Kanye West pivoted to God.
Now, as large middle classes in the West stagnate and billions elsewhere move out of poverty while harboring unrealizable dreams of prosperity, Rousseau's obsession with the psychic consequences of inequality seems even more prophetic and disturbing.
If you happened to walk past the corner of President and Clinton streets in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood, you likely saw many passersby stop to snap a picture of the potentially prophetic signs, The Daily Dot reports.
Melisandre & The Lord of Light Melisandre was a priestess of R'hllor and had prophetic visions that she's shared with many of the characters on the snow, from Jon Snow to Stannis Baratheon, and now even Arya Stark.
"Image Credit: Office of the Governor Doug DuceyIn a oddly prophetic moment during his address in January, Ducey also said "I want startups in the Sharing Economy to know: California may not want you, but Arizona does.
While he may not have known if he had much of a support in the country before Sunday night, there is no doubt that his prophetic post-fight interview has gripped the fan base in the nation.
Similar to how they responded to the complex challenges brought on by the Great Migration of the early 20th century, King brought prophetic interpretation to brutal racism, Jim Crow segregation and poverty in the 1950s and '60s.
As the depleted council began, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware (also an emeritus professor at Oxford University) said he still hoped it could avoid being mired in Orthodoxy's internal woes and "speak in a firm, prophetic voice" to humanity.
Once Jake starts hanging out with his new crew, a charming sideshow — the girl with the gobbling mouth in the back of her head, the boy with prophetic gifts — he proves to be somewhat of a dullard.
It's goose-bump prophetic in its prediction that around this time we would be entering a period of "creedal passion" — Huntington's term for the moralizing distrust of organized power that grips America every 19603 years or so.
As Punknews' unintentionally prophetic gag-post was going up, Canino and the rest of band were secretly finalizing plans to play a couple of New York shows in October, one in Brooklyn and one on Long Island.
Ms. Blackwell's words proved prophetic: Ms. Lekberg went on to receive numerous grants and awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, and to exhibit all over the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Italy and other countries.
On a wall behind it are selections of the Unabomber's manifesto, a 35,000-word neo-Luddite essay on the perils of technological innovation and its systems of control—which, 22 years later seems more prophetic than ever.
It was only five years ago that Mr. Michele had his prophetic men's wear debut at Gucci, offering girlie clothes and fur-lined mules worn by sexually ambiguous beings that were presumably — or at least genitally — men.
But in the official efforts 11 years ago to address the conspiracy theories propagated by Mr. Jones and others known as "9/853 Truthers," it is possible to hear a prophetic tone, strikingly relevant for these times.
Katz must have sensed the prophetic nature of this strategic but brutish gesture, one that somehow foreshadowed the revolutionary's elusiveness in the historical imagination, his resistance to identification, and the difficulty of distinguishing between man and myth.
Seven years on, I wanted to catch up with Ondi to discuss Josh's now clearly prophetic predictions about modern culture's willingness to relieve itself of its privacy, and what she does herself to stay away from its trappings.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of old, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
" Referring to apocalyptic evangelicals, they write: "Theirs is a prophetic formula: fight the threats to American Christian values and prepare for the imminent justice of an Armageddon, a final showdown between Good and Evil, between God and Satan.
Schwarzmann's cafe phenomenon recalls what the architect Rem Koolhaas noticed in his prophetic essay "The Generic City," from the 21992 book S,M,L,XL: "Is the contemporary city like the contemporary airport—'all the same'?" he asks.
A year later, as the threat of terrorism and the humanitarian challenge of migration from Africa, Asia and the Middle East have precipitated something of a European identity crisis, Mr. Audiard's film has acquired an almost prophetic aura.
Christianity has, after all, had benign as well as malign consequences; and the murderousness of Nazism and Bolshevism surely had far more to do with both societies' history of absolutism than with those ideologies' prophetic and millenarian character.
Last year, Alice Stewart emerged as the most prophetic, successfully predicting that Bruno Mars would win the Grammy for Album of the Year and that the Philadelphia Eagles would come out as the victors in the Super Bowl.
"My guess, at least within the US, is that numbers will continue to decline as the church refuses to be prophetic and priestly and pastoral to people in ways that a church is supposed to be," said Ambrose.
Listening today, the reverb-heavy drums and twinkling guitars of "It Might Have Been"—the sole Painter's Joy cut included on Few Traces—ring out with a prophetic sadness, the sound of countless other records fading from history.
Immediately, the miniseries gets this story underway as tiny rabbit Fiver (Nicholas Hoult) has a prophetic vision of rabbits being chopped in half by bulldozers and fields welling with blood, bringing to mind the elevator in The Shining.
To say too much about the differences between the two episodes would be to spoil its shocking ending, but suffice to say it involves a prophetic podcast, Adam Scott, casual racism, PTSD, and a very familiar gremlin puppet.
There is precedent here too: In 2012, misleading exit-poll data helped fool Democrats into thinking they could win the presidency while losing the white vote badly, as Nate Cohn documented in a prophetic June 2016 Upshot analysis.
In fact, in a now-prophetic 1999 interview with The New York Times, Melania — then dating Donald Trump — said she would see Kennedy as a role model should she ever make it to the White House as first lady.
At one point, Pininfarina built an entire bonnet for the FX and sent it to Brunei, just to see how it reacted to the sun and humidity of the stifling South Asian climate (an exercise that would prove prophetic).
"Heller was very prophetic and this has become more apparent as we move more deeply into this age of anxiety and absurdity," said Luke Davies, who co-wrote Hulu's six-episode adaptation starring George Clooney that launches on Friday.
I was sufficiently moved to pen a rock 'n' roll protest song entitled, "Illegal to Dance," which my band wasn't crazy about (I wound up shelving it after 9/11 because its prophetic final verse involved dancing on ruins).
There isn't much else there to unpack, but when talk of borders, war, and Russians come up, you may bristle at both the world you live in and the fact that a movie like this could be labeled prophetic.
Cornel West, the philosophy professor and activist appointed to the committee by the Sanders campaign to serve as its prophetic voice, decried Israel's military occupation as "evil" and challenged the Democratic Party to "tell the truth" about its existence.
"He was one of the country's most hated, misunderstood, radical and prophetic voices of the past century," said Jordan E. Miller, who taught religion at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, wrote articles with Dr. Altizer and considered him a mentor.
"The politics of the megaphone—the appeal of shrill rhetoric, oversimplification, prophetic fantasy, and facile name-calling—appealed to constituencies hungry for solutions," writes Mr Fernández-Armesto, a British historian who teaches at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
He is not the first such figure — Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and David S. Ware have been cast as prophetic messengers in the wake of Coltrane's death in 1967 — but he is the first to come along in some time.
Mr. Browne, playing the piano, sang his prophetic '70s anthem "Before the Deluge" with Ms. Baez, who glumly observed that "as we head into the abyss" this expression of apocalyptic foreboding is even more relevant today than when it was written.
And the solution is always the same -- restrictions on businesses and energy production, even though they feel Soylent Green is not a prophetic story of the American people and Planet of the Apes is not the future of Planet Earth.
And unlike even the most prophetic science fiction, you leave the theater knowing that the Fair Lady is still out in the ocean somewhere, hauling its grain or coal or iPhones to ports of call we'll never seen in our lifetimes.
After a group of Catholics was arrested for protesting at a military facility in Georgia, they brought a religious liberty defense, explaining that their protest was a "prophetic action to raise the consciousness of society about the immorality" of nuclear weapons.
When Jewish feast days draw near, Ms Lindvig incorporates Jewish chants in worship or holds a seder dinner; and she marked Fathers' Day by bringing in a shaman, in other words a seeker of prophetic powers through indigenous religious practice.
It must have been tempting to glance back at Armstrong's youth, in Ohio—to the prophetic day when, according to his father, "we skipped Sunday school and took our first airplane ride," as if a wing and a prayer were interchangeable.
Fifty years ago, as cities burned from people's rage at King's murder, the rest of America had already dismissed and forgotten the damning and prophetic report published only a month earlier by the presidential commission and chaired by Illinois Gov.
Mitch McConnell's version of success, in other words, seems at most like a prophetic exile in the wilderness to the folks who have seized conservative power to wage the culture war as opposed to the workaday Republican business of plutocratic looting.
That moment, like a too-prophetic line that Billy speaks in early 2016 ("With a new president on the horizon, who knows what the laws will look like"), is an indulgence in a play that is otherwise thoughtful and restrained.
I can give you the bio — staff writer at the Atlantic, author of Give People Money (which is proving particularly prophetic and influential right now) — but suffice to say she's one of the clearest and most brilliant economic thinkers I know.
Pretty/Dirty persuasively argues that her involvement in commercial pursuits is overshadowed by her skill at rendering reality in any style she chooses, while reflecting changing cultural concepts of beauty and consumption in ways that are both modern and prophetic.
Published in France just before the attacks of September 11, Platform elevated Houellebecq into a prophetic figure for Western media, a status further cemented when he was taken to court for stating his contempt for Islam in a publicity interview.
But the conclusion reads as somewhat prophetic: In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want.
She died in 2011 after being diagnosed with cancer, but as a young working class woman of Somalian, Scottish and Irish descent in the 70s, she shocked the punk scene with her Day-Glo attire and prophetic lyrics about identity.
As a protagonist played by Michael Shannon (also the star of Shotgun Stories) seems to be receiving prophetic warnings about a coming calamity, Nichols leaves viewers wondering for the entire film whether he's mentally ill, or really tuned into something beyond himself.
At other points, verses from the Bible are included almost verbatim to underscore the play's prophetic nature: "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders … [and] they shall deceive the very elect" (Matthew 24:24).
They include, by time line, a prophetic owl and the plucky daughter of a village elder (a prehistoric Arya Stark), a pack of Shiba Inus and an undead celebrity (a skeleton with sunglasses intact), and a meerkat-like race of futurist ranchers.
Logan, the final part of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine trilogy, is no different, and is in fact almost culturally prophetic in certain scenes, including its depiction of a heavily-guarded border wall straddling the US and Mexico in its near-future interpretation of 2029.
Mr. Jackson took him under his wing, and Al decided he wanted to spend his life like the men who looked after him, fighting for civil rights in the prophetic tradition of Dr. King, who was assassinated when Mr. Sharpton was 13.
Along with these roles, one of his most iconic and memorable performances was in Billy Wilder's 1951 film Ace in the Hole, a film that today seems prophetic in its anticipation of how spectacle and scandal would one day drive media and news.
That, and in particular his reputation as a prophetic writer, came about from the intersection in his novels of sexual anomie and societal breakdown, in the way Houellebecq crosshatched global economic and political forces with the lonely, sexually frustrated lives of his protagonists.
When they disagreed about how to proceed — Rosita and Daryl wanted to keep looking and Glenn and Michonne wanted to be more strategic — Glenn and Michonne split off to have an eerily prophetic chat about how this fight was going to go sour.
There's a prophetic tinge in seeing the work now, as though Bochner's 1969 design anticipated the ubiquity of screens in our lives, and the fact that direct physical perception is not valued in the same way as it was, or at all.
"Ambassador of Beyond" is a sneaker-sandal for the prophetic posthuman, and "Le Modele Rouge" nods to purportedly progressive corporate culture — office supplies are attached to the tongue and heel and little tribal figures are painted on other parts of the shoe.
"We worked together and symbolically built a community in peace and harmony, building walls for protection not separation, and bridges that join people together physically and conceptually which I didn't realize four years ago would be so prophetic today," says the artist.
"It raises questions of how does [Kanye] situate himself to that particular [Black Christian] prophetic tradition that is much more interested in the social good and social welfare as opposed to personal piety," Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University Dr. Xavier Pickett says.
In an unimaginably prophetic move, he included giant mourning candles in the initial renderings; without instruction for their placement, the organizers placed them in sand-filled beer buckets that remind me of beach pails, ashtrays, alcohol: the pleasures and banalities of life by the sea.
In bizarre celebrity gossip news of potential national importance, President Donald Trump and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger went at it again on Twitter today, highlighting once more how Schwarzenegger's cheesy 1987 sci-fi action movie The Running Man turned out to be oddly prophetic.
" She occasionally rediscovers her earlier feeling, from the high points of The Golden Compass, of "quiet conviction"—her heroic, prophetic sense "that all was well and that the world was her true home, as if there were great secret powers that would see her safe.
It's entirely acceptable to extend an invitation to a kami (a divine spirit associated with some element of nature) in order to glean hidden wisdom or prophetic insight; legendary accounts attribute Empress Jingu's campaign to conquer Korea to an oracle she delivered while possessed.
I heard him speak in Hebrew in Jerusalem to a student group in 1960, in the last decade of his life, and can attest that with his quietly reflective delivery, enhanced by a snowy-white "prophetic" beard, he projected an aura of spiritual authority.
It speaks to the quasi-prophetic space Coates occupies in American life that his pessimism grates so deeply on so many, that the central struggle over his work is not its rightness, or its righteousness, but whether it leaves too little space for sunbeams.
True, the fact that Teixeira has been predicting some version of this scenario for more than 15 years, originally in a famous book with John Judis, "The Emerging Democratic Majority," whose thesis Judis has since partially abjured, should make one a bit skeptical of his prophetic power.
" Lusk told the Daily Beast that he believes QAnon is "legitimate" and argued that the conspiracy had a "very articulate screening of past events, a very articulate screening of present conditions, and a somewhat prophetic divination of where the political and geopolitical ball will be bouncing next.
In the meantime, Trump's account is here to stay — for both the threats of nuclear war, and his unwittingly prophetic messages, like this one from several years ago: Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.
" Oftentimes, this impulse leads him to pessimistic views on the present, comparing the despair of past times to that of our own: for instance, he paints Bosch's turbulent scene of hell in "The Garden of Earthly Delights" as prophetic of "the clamour of the disparate, fragmentary present.
But he's also had a potentially prophetic dream that indicates Dougie (who is really Cooper, I know, but is referred to by everyone as Dougie, so I'm going to keep in that spirit) isn't his enemy but, rather, his friend, and he has the situation all wrong.
In a speech meant to highlight his efforts to crack down on gangs and undocumented immigrants, President Trump heaped praise on his homeland security secretary in what would become a prophetic moment after he was named the White House chief of staff a short time later.
He quotes a prophetic Hadith that says, "Whoever wants to see a spot of heaven, let him gaze at al-Quds," but his Jerusalem is "a divine cage," a wasteland of barbed wire and demolished homes, where "corpses and severed limbs" lie strewn atop the rubble.
It indeed made a halfhearted attempt to join in 1963 and 1967, but was blocked each time by the French president, Charles de Gaulle, who at the time was harshly criticized for uttering his now prophetic statement that the British government lacked commitment to European integration.
Among the many financial analysts asked to comment for this article, and for some reason the only commenter among all those cited here who didn't mind being named, was Zanna Domack, a market tracker whose deep awarenesses and prophetic acumen are considered unparalleled in the industry.
You can also make the case that Neuromancer might have been more inspirational than prophetic—its technological vision, the argument goes, is simply so arresting that certain of its readers ended up getting jobs in the tech sector and creating real versions of Gibson's imagined technologies.
"Every decision that I've made that has been thought to be premature or overly aggressive, in a week or two weeks or three weeks has looked prophetic," Suarez told Insider by phone from his Miami home, where he was finishing a more than two week quarantine.
But his words eventually proved prophetic as the Cavaliers unraveled in the game's final minutes, allowing the Warriors to go on an 2114-211 run, erasing what had been a 212-point lead for Cleveland and putting the Cavaliers in a 213-213 hole in the series.
What Leo and Moss proposed as a remedy for these inefficiencies makes for prophetic reading: the creation of a full-service, self-sustaining U.S. Development Finance Corporation that delivers development results, advances U.S. foreign and commercial policy objectives and reduces the federal deficit through modest operating profits.
" The warning turned out to be rather prophetic, as then-Variety editor Peter Bart noted in a column a decade later amid a new wave of overseas investment, writing, "The Europeans have had as many problems as the Japanese in trying to get on Hollywood's wavelength.
" Dr. King acknowledged how his sense of prophetic obligation had been strengthened by his receipt of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, which represented "a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for 'the brotherhood of man' " — a calling "that takes me beyond national allegiances.
The notion chimes in almost elegiac fashion with a self-prophetic line from the cover of a magazine — La Pomme de Pins — that Picabia designed in 1922, which lends this book its subtitle: Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de direction.
His first musical introduction to the larger world, 2002's "Losing My Edge," was effectively an eight-minute piss-take on how it feels to be old while you're surrounded by young people—a hilarious slice of scenester paranoia that was also astoundingly prophetic of what was to come.
"I just want to say one quite serious thing, I've been thinking about this a lot, but actually it could be horribly prophetic, Mad Max, if we're not kinder to each other, and if we don't stop polluting our atmosphere, so you know, it could happen," Beavan said.
Ew. —David Mack Bran Stark's journey is one of Game of Thrones' most complicated character arcs, as he's gone from being a cute little kid who aspired to be a knight, to a paralyzed teenager with prophetic dreams, to a Three-Eyed Raven in a young man's body.
A fortnight ago, the FA launched an investigation via the Gambling Commission into John Terry's pre-planned substitution in the 26th minute of his final Chelsea game, which had the dual effect of undermining the competitiveness of the match and causing three remarkably prophetic punters to win big.
Classical scholar Eric Dodds, in his anthropological and philosophical study The Greeks and the Irrational (1951), explains that prophetic and poetic madness were documented in ancient Greece, to the point that the Greek word for seer and the Greek word for madness share the same Indo-European root.
The image of nude Flea and shortsleeve-over-longsleeve John Frusciante stood fretboard to fretboard, ringing out the final notes of "Under the Bridge," fading into a massive bonfire started by the audience and fuelled by a bunch of plywood they ripped off the stage, is really quite prophetic.
One of the driving motivators of Pompeo's State Department increasingly seems to be what Gardiner calls "well-documented beliefs in the prophetic necessity of the establishment of a 'Greater Israel' in order to usher in the End Times"—hardly a stabilizing central principle in an era of nuclear risk.
But when Mx. Cession described Jesus as "a radical brown-skinned Palestinian man who was a political prisoner, who was about fighting the authorities," I heard an echo of the late 1960s: the black liberation theologians who fused a Marxist analysis of white imperialism with the prophetic tradition.
She told me I would one day have a creative profession, which I suppose turned out to be prophetic, although at the time I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian (this largely had to do with my love of puppies, and not any particular interest in animal science).
A few weeks back, fans of The Simpsons pointed out a scene from a 1993 episode that seemed prophetic to the spread of coronavirus, showing an Asian worker stricken with the flu coughing into a box that is then sent to Homer and causes an outbreak in Springfield.
" In the prophetic description of the battle of Actium on Aeneas' shield, Virgil carefully arranges the antagonists (Augustus and Agrippa against Antony and Cleopatra), but Ferry miscues this, giving "on the one side" Augustus, and "on the other side" Agrippa, then "on the other side, too, is depicted Antony.
" And Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, another prophetic American voice of love, asked us, "How many disasters do we have to go through in order to realize that all of humanity has a stake in the liberty of one person; whenever one person is offended, we are all hurt.
Through an assemblage of unearthed film footage, previously unprinted photographs, drawings, two costume re-creations, sound recordings and ephemera — including the handwritten and doodled-upon will that Varble left before his death from AIDS-related complications in 1984 — emerges a portrait of a prophetic artist with thoroughly modern messages.
Christian Zionism—the belief that a Jewish Israel is a prophetic precursor to the return of Christ in the End of Days—is ever more stridently part of U.S. policy toward the Middle East and certainly animates the diplomatic labors of Mike Pompeo, our zealous secretary of state.
The presidential candidate does not make a single on-screen appearance, and his voice only appears in a few key sequences, such as when Taylor falls asleep next to the television while receiving a prophetic vision, or when he and his wife worriedly watch the Trump-Clinton debate.
" But barely fun at all is what follows on the box, 2008's Iraq-steeped "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" and the even grimmer capper, 2012's all too prophetic election-year sick joke "I'm Dreaming": "I'm dreaming of a white president / Someone who we can understand.
Here is what organizers had apparently intended to print: And here, via Ravindu Thimantha G. on Twitter, is what actually appeared in the program in Colombo: If you're sitting around the Christmas dinner table, angrily trying to convince your parents that great rappers can be prophetic, consider this an opening gambit.
Canto general also looks forward, to Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, where the backwaters of the New World are also the center of creation, or to Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, another factual chronicle of conquest and rebellion across the span of Latin American history related with prophetic indignation.
Therefore, the House - most specifically its selection committee – should be urged to choose a chaplain who is theological, yet ecumenically prophetic, and concerned not only with pastoral care to members and their families, but able also to give voice and presence to the values of healing, civility, community and unity.
Some episodes have proven strangely prophetic: The second season finale, "The Waldo Moment," shows a TV entertainer bafflingly manage to dupe the public and climb the political ranks, an eerie echo of things to come in the US; the series' pilot features the British Prime Minister having sex with a pig.
"The American people want someone to articulate their rage for them," the manically motivated television director of programming Diane Christensen, pitched perfectly in the key of shrill by Faye Dunaway, tells her staff in "Network," the 1976 film that took satire to a new and prophetic level in American filmmaking.
It's an ungainly truth that Virginia Dwan, the almost prophetic gallerist and patron of the two most influential styles of this era — Minimalism and land art — who bankrolled Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" (1970) and a prototype for Walter De Maria's "The Lightning Field" (1977), among other landmark earthworks, represented few women.
Alabama went into halftime of the national championship game trailing Georgia by 13 points, but a switch to Tua Tagovailoa, a true freshman, at quarterback proved prophetic as he led them to a shocking 26-23 victory in overtime, throwing a 41-yard pass to DeVonta Smith to seal the win.
Though the music Mr. Watanabe used to open his show, Marvin Gaye's masterpiece "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)," features lyrics both ominous and prophetic of global warming, its melody is sublime enough that it was impossible for those in attendance not to feel the glory of being alive and in Paris.
"If you are the dealer/ I'm out of the game/If you are the healer/I'm broken and lame/If thine is the glory/Then mine must be the shame/You want it darker...I'm ready, my Lord..." As with Dylan, Cohen seemed to own a direct line to the prophetic and messianic.
Why a euphoric ode to mid-20s ennui by a group who take their name from a low-grade Swedish vodka resonated with me, an eight-year-old, front crawling indifferently through the ASA curriculum, is either bleakly prophetic or a simple testament to the universal resonance of its three opening notes.
Andrew Garfield, who on the red carpet described the play as about "the agony and the ecstasy of living and dying," was honored as best leading actor for his all-out performance as Prior Walter, a gay man whose battle with AIDS brings him prophetic powers and an encounter with the celestial.
For me, sitting through a sermon on the Book of Revelation still feels strange, but talking afterward — about whether Christianity approves of tough love (yes, in the Prophetic tradition) and why Susan bakes five loaves of buttermilk bread on the Sundays communion is offered (Christ broke bread, not wafers) — feels like home.
When he wants to — among dozens of examples, think of the shining final children's chorus of his Nativity oratorio, "El Niño"; the British Dancing Girl's chirpy number in "The Death of Klinghoffer"; Pat Nixon's statuesque aria, "This Is Prophetic," from "Nixon in China" — he can create earworm melodies the equal of Puccini's.
I am thinking about Faceparty because, out of all the conversations I had on this prophetic website—which led to meeting up with someone in person a grand total of once—one subject came up more than most, because it was listed in the bios of those I was interested in more than most: AFI.
That he eventually falls victim to the a Western culture he finds repellent, and attempts to resist, elevates Grand Theft Auto IV's boyish humor to a prophetic, cautionary tale—the game implies that the power and allure of contemporary American society is so strong it will consume and destroy even the least willing individuals.
In his legacy as prophetic radical and political pragmatist, in the almost unimaginable bravery of his early journey and the resilience of his later career, in his achievements as a writer, activist, crusader, intellectual, father, and man, the claim that he was the greatest figure that America has ever produced seems hard to challenge. ♦
But rather than construct a new, liberatory mythology, as Blake did in his dense and bewildering "prophetic" books, Bonney cobbles together a family tree of precursors who can provide him with formal suggestions for his own revolutionary poetics: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Georg Trakl, Diane di Prima, the Greek anarchist actress and poet Katerina Gogou.
From the podium, his intense eyes and expressive face demanded attention while his long arms and torso eased or coiled in pace with his cadence … In the patriarchs of the Old Testament and in the angry Christ of the New, Debs found a prophetic model that … demanded no apologies for frank, even harsh, pronouncements.
In that sense a quote by the 18th-century composer and flutist Johann Joachim Quantz seems prophetic: "With skill a musical machine could be constructed that would play certain pieces with a quickness and exactitude so remarkable that no human being could equal it either with his fingers or with his tongue," he wrote.
"They're idiots, they're really naive," is how Stevie Graham, the co-founder of fintech Teller, once described Open Banking Limited, the body charged with delivering open banking in the U.K. His view back in 2017 — which now looks somewhat prophetic — was that open banking wouldn't be the competition driver it was hyped up to be.
He, Dr. Turner and Lawrence Krauss, now at Arizona State, went on to write a prophetic paper in 1984 suggesting that all problems in cosmology could be solved by adopting an old idea — invented by Einstein in 1917 and later abandoned by him — known as the cosmological constant, a long-range cosmic repulsion force.
His erasure of the Jewish ethos and prophetic teachings — which are as prescriptive for leading a moral and ethical life as the lessons of Jesus and which predate Jesus by many centuries — and the way Mr. Wehner leapfrogs from paganism to Christianity without so much as a nod to its Judaic heritage seems both ahistorical and insensitive.
In "Our Man Down in Havana" Mr Hull argues that, as well as drawing on his secret-service experience to describe the bumbling nature of much intelligence work, Greene was eerily prophetic about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, which arose when reconnaissance flights proved that the Soviet Union was constructing missile sites on the island.
Baier masterfully casts the period between Eisenhower&aposs now-prophetic farewell address on the evening of January 17, 1961, and Kennedy&aposs inauguration on the afternoon of January 20 as the closing act of one of modern America&aposs greatest leaders — during which Eisenhower urgently sought to prepare both the country and the next president for the challenges ahead.
Many other events converged as well impacting black life that would later influence King's prophetic vision: President Woodrow Wilson declared entrance into World War I in 1914; as "boll weevils" ravaged crops in 1916 there was widespread agricultural depression ; and then there was the rise of Jim Crow laws that were to legally enforce racial segregation until 1965.
Jasmine gets creepy phone calls and threatening notes on her car windshield (a scene that unfolds in a parking garage, eerily prophetic of her account on 60 Minutes of a Trump goon threatening her in a parking lot.) An anonymous source emails her boss images of her sex work and stage name, doxing her as a cam model.
"I just want to say one quite serious thing, I've been thinking about this a lot, but actually it could be horribly prophetic, Mad Max, if we're not kinder to each other, and if we don't stop polluting our atmosphere, so you know, it could happen," Beavan said as the Oscars music started to chime in.
The play is about the waste of life that was the Trojan War, and the assembled crowd is familiar, including Hecuba (DeAnna Supplee), widow of the king and mother of the slain Hector and Paris; Helen (Rebeca Rad), the legendary beauty the Greeks went to war to recover; and the fiery Cassandra (Lindsley Howard), Hecuba's vengeful and prophetic daughter.
His crooked prophetic cry is nearer at heart to the majestic voice of Job's God: he knows what he knows, and if fear, lust, rage, greed, deceit, domination, revulsion, hurt — all the dire passions — are portioned among the play's dramatis personae, only the Fool can weigh these all at once and put them in their puny place.
By taking complete possession of her own life and trusting in her prophetic vision, Harriet uses physical movement to upend the racist, sexist and ableist assumptions that say a black woman disabled by recurrent blackouts from decades-old head trauma, traveling alone, is no match for the comprehensive system of white supremacy and its network of slaveholders and accomplices.
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