(n.) A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) In summary, the development of programs in the community serving the severely and chronically mentally ill is a political-sociological activity requiring a detailed working knowledge of the community to be involved, a clear understanding of objectives and specific agreements related to the program to be developed, adequate and stable funding, appropriate supportive and ancillary resources, significant bureaucratic skill and flexibility, adequate time for appropriate community education and feedback from key community leaders, a certain amount of clairvoyance in anticipating difficulties and unexpected problems, an immense amount of perseverance and, finally--and probably as important as any other single element--timing and luck.
(2) She is currently working with a clairvoyant who tells her to do certain things, go to certain places.
(3) Carl Jung displayed all five of these features in his life and psychotherapy, including dreams and waking fantasies in childhood; the use of active imagination in the induction of an ASC; contact with forces, knowledge, and power of the unconscious; a dual "personality," and the dialogue with the inner world--the unconscious, the realm of the archetypes; the use of these discoveries to counsel, advise, and heal; and psychic abilities, such as clairvoyance and out-of-body experiences.
(4) mystics, conjurors and clairvoyants, set in France and England during the late 1920s, Magic In The Moonlight harks back to the lamest titles in the Woody filmography.
(5) Guido procrastinates, retreats into his messy private life with wife and mistress, goes to a nightclub clairvoyant who makes him recall his childhood and he fantasises about keeping a harem of women at bay with a whip, or about being hounded to death by desperate producers and a hostile press.
(6) Nor does it take a clairvoyant to imagine that Blair thinks Miliband has aligned himself with the wrong crowd (Blair would never, for example, have been seen as leader on a TUC demo or speaking at the Durham Miner's Gala ).
(7) They were intended, cruelly, to entertain with their abnormal physical condition, but deeper and mysterious qualities were attributed to dwarves, as they were to Lear’s Fool and later to clowns: of intellectual prowess, clairvoyance and wisdom in the hollow laughter that ridicules power, and watches the march of time and age as a leveller of men.
(8) For as long as Gibson has been a writer, he has had to remind people not to regard him as a clairvoyant.
(9) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(10) The film's US distributors Sony Pictures Classics filled in lots of the blanks on10 July, when they released a long-form synopsis , explaining that Firth plays a stage magician who is on a mission to debunk professional clairvoyant Stone.
(11) Tom Binns's masterstroke is to couple his Montfort character with actual clairvoyant ability, or at least, a talent for simulating it.
(12) Yell.com listed 1,428 entries under "Psychics and Clairvoyants" when I started work on this in June.
(13) And while I don’t have the clairvoyance to predict which of the many cases currently winding their way through the courts will make its way first to the Supreme Court, what I do know is that the ruling in that case, like the decision in Windsor, will be in favor of equality.
(14) And there are all sorts of people there, like a retired colonel and a famous lady clairvoyant and an angry young man and a flighty young thing – isn't this just a fascinating cast of characters?
(15) Therapists are concerned that the courts are expecting them to be clairvoyant and that psychologists may not be able to predict dangerousness.
(16) The former school houses youth clubs, dance sessions, pensioners' get-togethers, and entertainment from taekwondo to clairvoyancy evenings.
(17) You saw the results.” The results made Snover look like a clairvoyant and her Republican peers look blind.
(18) The trail went cold until 2005, when a self-styled spiritual healer and clairvoyant, Mina Minic, answered a ring on his doorbell in Belgrade to find himself face-to-face with a tall man with a long bushy beard, abundant white hair done up in a top-knot tied with a black ribbon.
(19) When Brazil attacked they were thwarted by Bobby Moore who 'as always in this World Cup,' wrote Mcllvanney, 'was magnificent, interpreting the designs of the opposition with clairvoyant understanding and subduing their most spirited assaults with brusque authority.'
(20) One doesn’t have to be clairvoyant or even wait for the results, to discern the shape of the future.
Foreknowledge
Definition:
(n.) Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infant survival may depend on foreknowledge of the pathology and prompt, directed efforts at bypassing the airway obstruction.
(2) Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen For a story conceived in 1985, Fashion Beast both foreshadows later Moore works and seems eerily as if it were written with foreknowledge of what would transpire in the world in the intervening years.
(3) However, in a temporal forced choice experiment with foreknowledge of target position the difference between children and adults was reduced to 0.1 log units.
(4) The build-up to the killing and the victims' foreknowledge of it was captured in a letter the prosecution said was sent to Ntakirutimana by a group of Adventist pastors.
(5) However, it is inevitable that this is done with some foreknowledge; at least it is known that the test smears contain one or more special cases.
(6) Wallau had expressed the view that, even if Ali had foreknowledge of how boxing would affect his physical condition, “If he had it to do all over, he’d live his life the same way.
(7) The data indicate that a single pretreatment Widal test in suspected enteric fever cases is of definite diagnostic value, but that the results must be interpreted with caution and foreknowledge of the test's shortcomings and limitations.
(8) Effective prescribing of anticonvulsants requires foreknowledge of baseline pharmacokinetic data.
(9) The simplified description of the phenomena involved in MR which follows is intended to be comprehensive and does not require foreknowledge of classical physics, quantum mechanics, fluency with mathematical formulae or an understanding of image reconstruction.
(10) Once I would have criticised such a sentiment severely, but of certain parts of life there can be no foreknowledge.
(11) This foreknowledge allowed the vast majority of the side-chain resonances to be discerned in J-correlated spectra.
(12) This loss was maintained in a spatial forced choice experiment without foreknowledge of target location.
(13) These principles are: (1) that outcome foreknowledge should be disclosed and discussed; (2) that key data in the study should be well understood to include what influences it and its inherent variability; and (3) that detailed exposure characterization, whether it be occupational or personal risk factors, should be an integral part of all studies.
(14) Supporters of the drive towards early diagnosis say foreknowledge that someone may develop dementia can let them draw up instructions for their future care, put their financial affairs in order and make lifestyle changes, such as eating healthily and taking more exercise, that will slow the disease's progress.
(15) Foreknowledge of the presence of the aneurysm proved to be life saving when an acute deterioration required emergency surgery.
(16) Foreknowledge of the previous sterilization resulted in delay of surgical management.
(17) Excision of such an hourglass tumor without foreknowledge of such extension may lead to serious spinal cord complications.
(18) This method demonstrates significant generality and predictive power without requiring foreknowledge of any native structural details.
(19) Foreknowledge of disease may lead to better decision making about life-style or reproduction, but depression or suicide may also result.
(20) Foreknowledge of location of the test line within the matrix improved the threshold further, even if the whole matrix was displaced to different retinal positions.