How To Use soothsaying In A Sentence
- But what I will say is that your advice, if given as advice to a new, or aspiring, or up-and-coming writer, who is not gifted with the soothsaying gene like you are, then I will say that your advice, as far as it applies to the aspiring-muggle-writers, then your advice is crap. GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap
- If Steve Evans ever finds himself out of work in football, he should consider a sideline in soothsaying. 'If any non-league club can beat Manchester United, it's Crawley Town'
- Landlords who know the business don't rely on such soothsaying, Engel observes. The Mortgage Hangover
- Key point of interest in this article for me is the reference to the "soothsaying" ritual of using the cup to divine from oil poured on water in Egypt, a practice that dates back to ancient Mesopotamia. Archive 2008-10-01
- Isaiah did not predict coming events; indeed (for the drift of this teaching goes very strongly in that direction), that predictive prophecy is hardly to be recognized anywhere; that it is better out of our thoughts; that it is but "soothsaying" after all, and that the true work of the prophet was not to fore-tell but to "_forth_-tell," to proclaim present and eternal principles, which again were not revealed to him from above but arrived at by intuitions and meditations within his own consciousness. To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work
- Several soothsaying chaises, looking into the future ... in Ste. French Word-A-Day:
- In which case methinks we should utilize this peculiar soothsaying ability for more capitalistic means than mere survival.
- Cowell's sucky soothsaying aside, the singing competition has settled in as a steady, even stalwart, ratings performer. Ratings: The X Factor Establishing Itself as a Steady Performer
- My fortune was that I was soon to meet my "ame soeur" at which I thought was standard soothsaying practice. Ame soeur - French Word-A-Day
- I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Epistle Dedicatory
