2 QUOTES WITH «PRESENTIMENT»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
presentiment.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRESENTIMENT»
Discover the use of
presentiment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
presentiment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
But, embarking on a fine morning with a gay bridal party— all around him joy and
hope — whence arose the feeling, the presentiment soon fatally accomplished,
which made a pious clergyman, the father of the patriotic Andrew Marvel, throw ...
Luther left his wife on his last journey, she had a presentiment that he would
never return. lie never did return. Yet how can we tell that her presentiment was
not a woman's natural uneasiness at seeing her husband start on a journey, and
was ...
George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1866
Luther left his wife on his last journey, she had a presentiment that he would
never return. He never did return. Yet how can we tell that her presentiment was
not a woman's natural uneasiness at seeing her husband start on a journey, and
was ...
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The Emily Dickinson Handbook
But of course it is reactive, for the event that the presentiment foresees is never
mentioned. Yet there is a third part of the self, more reactive than presentiment,
upon which presentiment records itself, and this is "the Lawn," the "startled Grass"
of ...
Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle, Cristanne Miller, 2005
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Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality
Shortly after I reported the results of the first presentiment experiment in 1996,
psychologist Dick Bierman from the University of Amsterdam attempted to
replicate it. He was successful, and since then he has repeated the presentiment
effect ...
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Derrida and Negative Theology
They have a presentiment of, they anticipate, they approach, they smell out, they
are the men of imminence and the trace. For example, they say they have a
presentiment of the sun and cite Plato. They say that every philosophy of men
can ...
Harold Coward, Toby Foshay, Jacques Derrida, 1992
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Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Language, ...
22 Here appear die Ahnung and das Er-Ahnen, presentiment and the profound
presentiment, that accompany each Stimmung. Indeed, in the introduction to the
Beiträge, Heidegger groups the Stimmungen under the single heading Ahnung, ...
Alejandro A. Vallega, 2009
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The Reading Teacher's Word-a-Day: 180 Ready-to-Use Lessons ...
/pree zen ti ment /pri zen' t mnt A presentiment is a feeling that something is about
to happen. When it's a feeling that something bad will happen, it could be called
a foreboding; if it is just that anything, good or bad, is about to happen, it could ...
Edward B. Fry, Ph.D., 2008
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Jacquot had then but little idea of the advantages gained by homage to this
volatile deity, but desire of seeing the capital, a feeling of curiosity, and a secret
presentiment of future greatness induced him to accept the offer He wept bitterly
on ...
Reuben Percy, John Timbs, 1824
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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION
But, embarking on a fine morning with a gay bridal party— all around him joy and
hope — -whence arose the feeling, the presentiment soon fatally accomplished,
which made a pious clergyman, the father of the patriotic Andrew Marvel, throw ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRESENTIMENT»
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presentiment is used in the context of the following news items.
Original short story: Architectural Salvage, by Will Self
... she'd a presentiment, and went back to the front room, where she parted the curtains. The mentally-ill woman had gone, leaving behind only ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
What do we love when we love books by dead authors?
... that emerges from the editor's “fine sense of what the author sounds like” and a “sympathetic presentiment of what the author would want". «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak review – a sad ballad of suburbia
We read in this dissonant tableau a presentiment of the louche machinations simmering beneath the genteel facade of the Little Neck Cove ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Zakhar Prilepin: Lukashenka prepares a place next to Yanukovich's …
"One more time I sound my presentiment. Lukashenka, as well as Yanukovich, sincerely thinks that flirting with these violent idiots, granting ... «Charter 97, Jun 15»
Modernist Male Art Is Timeless, but Not Timely
Watching from across the room is the faceless, melancholic man in Kazimir Malevich's “Complex Presentiment” (1928). Sharing that stare is ... «Hyperallergic, Jun 15»
R.I.P. Christopher Lee - A Tribute to and Interview with the Screen …
As a youth visiting France, he witnessed the country's last public guillotine execution -- a presentiment of gory cinematic depredations to come. «Memphis Commercial Appeal, Jun 15»
Football's ugliness is integral to the beautiful game
... bits of wood to be removed from its surface before the game began – I experienced what can only be described as a divine presentiment. «The Independent, Jun 15»
Buckets, the Orange Tree, theatre review
An inescapable presentiment of our own mortality hangs over the work and the title references the notion of the “bucket list”. It's a lovely idea, ... «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
Quaestio De Centauris
“What time did that happen?” I asked, with a disturbing presentiment. The assistant hesitated: it was not yet night, but he couldn't say precisely. «The New Yorker, May 15»
Hope in the Age of Climate Consequences
[Hope] is the presentiment that imagination is more real and reality is less real than it looks. It is the hunch that the overwhelming brutality of ... «Truth-Out, May 15»
