How To Use Intimation In A Sentence

His suicide attempt was the first intimation that he was seriously depressed.
But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The intimation is that such giants would likewise be serviced by global finance houses.
The first check to her duteous demonstrations was a formal intimation from the fallen majesty of England, that I was in no manner to be intruded upon her. II.8
William Jefferson, known to be less than scrupulous (the FBI found $90,000 in cash in his freezer, and the intimation is that he is connected to some shady individuals from South America), re-elected to Congress in a landslide, primarily due the rantings of the autocratic sheriff of Jefferson Parish. Think Progress » Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin?

Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
That was a rightwing fiesta, including a graf coming after the summary of the Democrats response to the Prez that was an almost perfect piece of punditland dreamery, with intimations of Broder marvelously woven into it: Matthew Yglesias » Al-Qaeda in Iraq
There were trodden places, bent and broken blades of the coarse grass, and ever and again the sufficient intimation of a footmark. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
I did not have any intimation that he was going to resign.
The audible allusion is to the passage that records the sudden eruption of joy at the top of stanza IX in the "Intimations" Ode, more specifically a few lines on, when the poet says that it is not for the The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth
Prof. Easterly's subtle intimation that we must master the debate before we can master our destiny is an important lesson to be learned from the Columbia experience. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Lessons From Columbia U.
His suicide attempt was the first intimation that he was seriously depressed.
His first intimation that his nerves are failing him occurs while he is out jogging in the Catholic cemetery.
Neither doth he speak to the thing in hand, nor are the particulars mentioned exceptive to the former intimation, if his speech look any other way. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
We are given intimations of romance, all along recognizing that it is unlikely to be realized or consummated.
They are dominated by classified ads: missing person searches, compact disc replication, name-change announcements and other intimations of a world of phantom insubstantiality.
The incident of sending a present of clothing is curiously like the tale about a certain English envoy, whose proprieties were sadly ruffled in the Nair country, when a lady sent him a grand shawl with an intimation of her choice. Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty
These intimations of mortality triggered in him a ‘consciousness of my very caducity’ (writer's note: caducity is ‘the quality of being transitory or perishable’).
He wanted the reader to share his extraordinary intimations; this generosity gave even his scholarly dissertations and diatribes a certain spaciousness, a giddying other dimension. More on Updike: His Own Elegies
Without early intimation of the dates of the training sessions, enthusiasm for training could decrease.
In these circumstances, intimation was made that her attendance was not required.
There are few sadder sights in sport than seeing a legend have intimations of mortality thrown at him. Times, Sunday Times
It is a digressive process that leaks out intimations of personality and establishes a position for the portrait where it does not remain static but finds a more dialogic approach to psychological portraiture.
The "pearled" as applied to the spider's thread gives an intimation of the effect produced by dew on the thread, but there is also the suggestion of tears upon the thread work woven by the hands of the girl. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
The image is a fearful intimation of tragedy, a presentiment of a century of spiritual crisis.
Some people are having a hard time dealing with its intimations of bad luck; the magpie is oblivious, its wings fully flung as if about to leap into flight, its beak dark and glittery, unaware it’s an omen of any kind. September « 2006 « Squares of Wheat
This was the first intimation of his "Human Comedy," which was so daringly undertaken and so nearly completed in his after years.
A frown is often an intimation of disapproval.
It is regrettable that it has taken almost ten years from the intimation of a claim to the assessment of damages.
This intimation seemed to compose in some degree the vehement passion of the old hag.
The generous officer would have included Mr. Jarvie and me in this general acquittance; but the Bailie, disregarding an intimation from the landlady to “make as muckle of the Inglishers as we could, for they were sure to gie us plague eneugh,” went into a formal accounting respecting our share of the reckoning, and paid it accordingly. Rob Roy
This journey gave the world its first intimation of the reality of the deep ocean.
Its singular intimations, however, were sufficient to throw back on this strange evening, in all its detail -- the dance, the readings, the distant fire -- a kind of allegoric expression: gave it the character of one of those famous Platonic figures or apologues which had then been in fact under discussion. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
But however familiar nature is, men still feel its transcendent power, along with a corresponding intimation of transcendence in themselves.
There was no intimation from his doctor that his condition was serious.
The first intimation he had of a repulse was the trembling of In His Steps
No intimation from the Confederate army, or from the men controlling it, in relation to a peace compromise has ever come to Foreign and Colonial News
Q Did you get any readout on Vice President Mondale's meeting, and did he get any intimation from the Indonesians that they will stick with the IMF reforms? Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
In the non-diagetic music there are fluid connective moments where Africa meets Mississippi meets modern Los Angeles with just the appropriate intimations of the conflict that had been wrought by spatial upheaval.
Thus, a purely aesthetic veneration for the old and defeated culture coexists with an intimation of its still unquiet daemonic power.
It was, arguably, the first intimation that the war was heading towards the endgame.
They know that a man having his first intimations of mortality is seriously in need of horsepower. Times, Sunday Times
The clear intimation in one published column was that the team believed he was faking an injury and that he feared an opponent.
Her back was towards me; and Miss Rawlins, by pulling her sleeve, giving intimation of my being there — Can I have no retirement uninvaded, Sir, said she, with indignation, as if she were interrupted in some talk her heart was in? — Clarissa Harlowe
Of a previous existence I know no more than others, for all have stammering intimations that may be memories and may be dreams.
The relating of this matter so briefly, is a plain intimation to us, that we must not look that way for a confirmation of our faith; we have a more sure word of prophecy. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Everywhere unshowy symmetries, foreshadowings and intimations elegantly shape the book. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of such low language as "Go heel yourself -- I mean to kill you on sight," the words, "Sir, we are incompossible," would convey and equally significant intimation and in stately courtesy are altogether superior. INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
She's amused by all the intimations that her new husband has partied down with what may be a regiment of loose women.
But as our friends are here, innocently, we must not only do our best to entertain them, but avoid the slightest intimation that they were not expected.
Everywhere unshowy symmetries, foreshadowings and intimations elegantly shape the book. Times, Sunday Times
While Edwin strove to guess who could be the inventor of so dire a falsehood against the truest of Scots, he awakened an alarm in Wallace for Bruce, which could not be excited for himself, by suggesting that perhaps some intimation had been given to the most ambitious of the abthanes, respecting the arrival of their rightful prince. The Scottish Chiefs
Her mouth was set in the vague intimation of a smile.
In nineteen fragmented chapters riddled with ellipses, the novel limns the discrete and sometimes discomforting spectrum of desire awakened by intimations of mortality.
The folksy presentation using the plural is a nod-wink meant to suggest habitual behaviour, potential danger, hidden agenda/background, but there is no code or nexus or intimation or subtextual message whatsoever relating to violence. What Sarah Palin Is Saying - Anil Dash
We move away from intimations of mortality to those romantic endings. Times, Sunday Times
For in our mostly secular age it is often art that provides us with intimations of the divine.
It was a twelve-foot Fire Angel that had just enteredrusset-colored, with wings like stained-glass windowsand, along with intimations of mortality, it brought me recollections of a praying mantis, with a spiked collar and thornlike claws protruding through its short fur at every suggestion of an angle. Sign of Chaos
And it was while we were in this flat in 1995 that we began to get the first intimations of something happening with our old single Missing. Times, Sunday Times
Upon this intimation, they sallied forth to the yard, where the confusion created by the arrival of one coach heavily laden, and the preparation of two for departure, afforded a scene for a quiet contemplatist, which however it is not easy to describe. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
This was the first intimation that Cihuatan was a real city, not a ceremonial center with a small area of elite housing.
Plato tells us that this intimation, which he spoke of as his demon, never prompted him to any act, but occasionally interfered to prevent him or his friends from proceeding in any thing that would have been attended with injurious consequences. Lives of the Necromancers
The lieutenant contumaciously refusing to comply with this intimation, was in the morning, while he amused himself in walking upon the Bare, suddenly surrounded by the constables of the court, who took him and his adherent prisoners, before they were aware, and delivered them into the hands of the turnkeys, by whom they were immediately dismissed, and their baggage conveyed to the side of the ditch. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Without early intimation of the dates of the training sessions, enthusiasm for training could decrease.
The tale of the supernatural is traditionally an art of slowly built crescendo: we know that eventual horrors begin with small intimations? that witnesses will at first be only mildly discomposed. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
supernormal intimations
He was not less brusque in the intimation of his declinature when Pollock gave him the opportunity to send a force in support of Sir Richmond Shakespear, whom, with a detachment of Kuzzilbash horse, Pollock had already despatched on the mission of attempting the liberation of the prisoners. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
With victory this time, it seemed, came intense mourning and an intimation of mortality.
The basic intimation of his book is a profound sense of loss animating every artificiality and perversity.
Endgame points to witnessing consciousness through the unending quest for escape; as an unanalyzable state of being, we know it only through a priori intimations of inner experience.
At the time, US government spokespeople dismissed it as so much waffle, especially railing against the intimations that ‘death squads’ might be involved.
But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
He conveys these moral tastes to the reader less by means of argument than by ironic indirection or aesthetic intimation.
There it was again - a clear intimation of sorrow.
Taking place in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco with intimations of its transoceanic neighbor, Japan, the play already fails by not making these places compellingly present.
The most self-sufficient man in all Greece, who could find the way directly to himself and to the mystery and responsibility of his own will without the medium of external rites, to whom there were the ever-present intimations of his strange Divinity, -- what need to him of the Eleusinian revealings or their sublime self-intuition ([Greek: autopsia])? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
The eclectic score bears this out; it is a rich, cosmopolitan blend of Strauss and Scriabin, with certain intimations of French Impressionism confected by Middle Eastern-sounding arabesques and layered harmonies. Passion and Pyrotechnics Fit for a King
The first intimation he had of a repulse was the trembling of Rachel's arm in his. Archive 2008-06-01
About six months after the full position had been given, I saw him in a severe chill [evidently a withdrawal symptom caused by Halsted's seeking to give up morphine once again] and this was the first intimation I had that he was still taking morphia. Eminent Addicts « Isegoria
Here, a restrained painterliness vies with a softened geometry and an intimation of space.
The first intimations of serious trouble came from Trieste, where the censors savagely bowdlerised Stiffelio 1850.
This intimation is the proceed of mere love, which, whether you embrace or no, I shall still continue all those good wishes and offices of respect that may become Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
And presently the outer fringe of the Welsh camp became perceptible rather by the lingering intimations of humanity, the smoke of fires, the resinous odours of newly split wood in the lengths of stockade, even the mingled, murmurous sounds of such activity as persisted into the night, than by anything seen or clearly heard. His Disposition
The concluding chapters seek clues to the enigma among a maze of misconceptions and misinterpretations, and occasional intimations of conspiracy.
The auspicious date of the wedding is fixed by the Brahman and intimation is given to the boy's family through the _lagan_ or formal invitation, which is sent on a paper coloured yellow with powdered rice and turmeric. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
Intimations of zoanthropy and diabolical rites also attend the depiction of New York's financial world in David DeCoteau's low-budget horror movie Wolves of Wall Street (2002).
This is a plain intimation that in the days of the Messiah an end should be put, not only to the sacrifices of atonement, but to those of praise and acknowledgment which were instituted by the ceremonial law; and, instead of them, spiritual sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving are accepted -- the calves of our lips, not the calves of the stall, Heb. xiii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The intimation of immortality comes from this sense of love for all humanity.
You cease to care much for the melancholy greenness of the disfeatured statues which has been your chief winter's intimation of verdure; and before you are quite conscious of the tender streaks and patches in the great quaint grassy arena round which the Propaganda students, in their long skirts, wander slowly, like dusky seraphs revolving the gossip of Paradise, you spy the brave little violets uncapping their azure brows beneath the high-stemmed pines. Italian Hours
Inside, this intimation was driven home by the estimates printed beside each object.
The approach to the house, looking down on roofs and with a view of the Pacific, gives some intimation of drama.
Some of the personnel in the private hospitals said intimation regarding the meeting came at the last moment.
In addition, if that debate was intended to secure from the Government an intimation of future policy against Southern shipbuilding it was conducted on wrong lines for _immediate_ effect -- though friends of the North may have thought the method used was wise for _future_ effect. Great Britain and the American Civil War
But upon receiving this intimation, he issued the following proclamation, dismissing the Legislature, without date.
Nishitani finds profounder intimations of a truly radical subjectivity in both Meister Eckhart's mystical theology and Nietzsche's radical atheism, which each in their own way go beyond, or dig beneath, attachments to and sublations of egoity. The Kyoto School
It was sad and premature, with intimations of mortality. Times, Sunday Times
His suicide attempt was the first intimation that he was seriously depressed.
I have received intimation from the Editor that the record will appear in the 2007 issue of the Records Book under the category of ‘Communication’. Guinness World Book of Records and Other Blog Score Cards « Lorelle on WordPress
Complementing the overt philosophic cast of the last participle, for not yet "actualized" rather than merely not yet recognized, Wordsworth's verse, in and beyond the Intimations Ode, is often levitated on words as well as worlds that feel churning in a line without being fully conjured into print, fleeting evocations neither quite seized upon by the lyricist as yet nor brought to be in reading. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
These were the real Dark Ages, when intimations were frequently made from the Glendevon and other pulpits that the minister and session would be glad to receive information against suspected witches, and when the common pricker who pricked poor witches "with lang preins of thrie inches" to discover the marks of Satan, was specially busy in the vale of Devon, where in a record year no less than sixteen of the local "covin" were burned. Chronicles of Strathearn
We were always agreed, in good Augustinian fashion, that in a fallen world our best is but a faint intimation of, a feeble gesture toward, what ought to be.
Still he had a strange prescience , an intimation of something yet to come.
They know that a man having his first intimations of mortality is seriously in need of horsepower. Times, Sunday Times
The treatment of fables as vague intimations of Christian doctrine did not disappear even in the most sophisticated antiquarian studies of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries.
Endgame points to witnessing consciousness through the unending quest for escape; as an unanalyzable state of being, we know it only through a priori intimations of inner experience.
By his side was a tankard, half-filled with stale sack, and in his hand he clutched a gold piece as though he had had an intimation it would be safer there than elsewhere on his person during the pot-valiant sleep he had deliberately courted. Under the Rose
Its spontaneous timely events are articulations of the continuous nature of creation, intimations about the irrefrangible unity underlying it.
In so doing they imply that different books should be read differently and provide intimations of how particular books should be read.
Intimations Ode is sounded early on in the cognate object "sing a joyous song" (l. 19): echoic token of that pastoral "There was a time" (l. 1) when birds were everywhere and full-throated — and where the epithet "joyous" was as taken for granted, in the tautologies of the prefallen, as that prelinguistic song sung. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
The façade never quite resolves its identity crisis, and the rigid design straitjackets other intimations of a hidden life.
On a blustery morning in March, a biting east wind carrying intimations of snow, a few hardy cranespotters have gathered at the summit of Arthur's Seat to count the current crop.
Every gardener longs for the first intimation of spring.
Along the way, he learns Japanese (the intimation is quite a lot) from a Japanese lass whom he meets in a college in California.
He has done most things but this season, after the death of his father and mentor, hastened his resolve and delivered intimations of mortality. Times, Sunday Times
I touched a delicate string, on purpose to set her in such a passion before the women, as might confirm the intimation I had given of a phrensical disorder. Clarissa Harlowe
It is a digressive process that leaks out intimations of personality and establishes a position for the portrait where it does not remain static but finds a more dialogic approach to psychological portraiture.
From such a correspondence, if she could derive neither comfort nor information, she thought she found intimations of its source in the style of Lady Rachel’s letters to her; and she believed it to be such as forbad her too eagerly to wish for an elucidation, probably more painful than the obscurity in which she felt herself lost. Isabella. A Novel
A shared overarching global polity would embody this intimation in continuously revisable structures dedicated to promoting the common good insofar as this can be agreed upon.
When the Sheriff Clerk receives a petition against which a caveat has been lodged, it is his responsibility to give intimation to the caveator.
The baronet was a good deal disconcerted by his intimation, saying, that he must be a Goth and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Intimations Ode is sounded early on in the cognate object "sing a joyous song" (l. 19): echoic token of that pastoral "There was a time" (l. 1) when birds were everywhere and full-throated — and where the epithet "joyous" was as taken for granted, in the tautologies of the prefallen, as that prelinguistic song sung. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
It might be the handkerchief sent back to her, it might be some other plain intimation that he had changed his mind. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
An intimation from the War-office appeared in all the newspapers, calling on half-pay officers either to sell their commissions or to hold themselves in readiness to join some regiment. Roughing It in the Bush
Both made the Jamaica team and much of the instant reaction to these intimations of mortality has lacked perspective. Times, Sunday Times
It becomes a battle of wills between the cop and the crazy for the life of the girl, although lurking beneath such intimations of horror is a modicum of respect.
Then came the sly intimation, the oblique remark, all that sugar-lipped raillery which is fitted for the situation of a man about to do a foolish thing, whether it be to publish or to marry, and that accompanied with the discreet nods and winks of such friends as are in the secret, and the obliging eagerness of others to know all about it. The Surgeon's Daughter
Cole fills this story, in which the title hero battles some giant bugs, with wonderful intimations of super-speed, and a rather bewildering number of applications of the power in so short an amount of space. A few words about every single story in Supermen!
I sent him, therefore, the book, carefully sealed up, with an intimation that I requested the favour of his opinion upon the contents, of which I affected to talk in the depreciatory style, which calls for point-blank contradiction, if your correspondent possess a grain of civility. The Surgeon's Daughter
Quick to fear the worst, she was horrified by his intimation.
Also that night she brought him a blue silk kummerbund streaked with scarlet, and laid it on his pillow, with a written intimation that it was sent 'with fondiest love from Susie S. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
My intimations to him, in reference to the possible imposition that was being practiced upon him, however, were indignantly repelled.
Many aspirants submitted their applications along with the re-checking fee but no result or intimation is being provided to the aspirants till date.
But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The animistic overtones of the book, and its intimations of love and death, made a deep impression.

How To Use Intimation In A Sentence

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