oracular

How To Use oracular In A Sentence

• an oracular message
• Whether the birds represented oracular nightingales, or wrynecks used as love-charms and rain-inducers, is disputable.
• These newsroom characters are regarded less as role models than as holy fools whose wisdom, no matter how wacky, is still magical and oracular. My Times
• This turns out to be brief and oracular, and tells us nothing about Delbrel.
• He both convenes community and shatters its calcifications, creating the space for oracular truths to emerge while posing equally provocative dilemmas.
• Thus the same articulation pertains in the Panhellenic Games as in the order of the oracular consultation.
• The philosophers in the first century wrote of gases producing euphoria and of a spring emanating from fissures, or chasms, in the bedrock inside the oracular chamber.
• During a divination, they construct usable knowledge from oracular messages.
• Later, the oracular prophecies completed their awful and ironic cycle of fulfillment when Oedipus undertook a mission to save Thebes, still acknowledged as his native city, from the predations of a dire female monster, the Sphinx.
• The news anchors themselves, in the heyday of network television, acquired a kind of oracular glow, a comforting sense that, whatever else was going on, some kind of reliable narrative, some kind of verifiable truth could be found within.