(a.) Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.
(n.) One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses.
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.
Mystic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Mystical
(n.) One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.
Example Sentences:
(1) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(2) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(3) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
(4) Contact was made with a ‘mystical-religious’ group that used the gas to accelerate arriving at their transcendental-meditative state of choice.” It increased in popularity with the rise of festival culture – it’s been a mainstay of Glastonbury’s stone circle and squat parties in Bristol and south London for at least a decade – but the equipment needed to dispense it remained relatively expensive.
(5) Animal Rescue is based on a screenplay by the novelist Dennis Lehane , author of Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River and Shutter Island, all of which have been made into films by Hollywood.
(6) None of the students attributed AIDS to mystical forces, while some associated it with affluence.
(7) As part of their studies, orphans at the centre will be taught a curriculum based on Spirituality for Kids, linked to the Kabbalah school of mysticism, of which Madonna is a follower.
(8) Christians believed, and believe, that the body is not only physical, but also spiritual and mystical, and many believed it was an allegory of church, state and family.
(9) In the interim, Phil cut the solo albums Star Spangled Springer (1973), Phil's Diner (1974) and Mystic Line (1975), and appeared on Roy Wood's album Mustard and on Zevon's debut album in 1976.
(10) All subjects were most likely to cite mystical causes for their disability and to believe that mystical sources would most help them to improve.
(11) If there’s a mystic, a European setting and an antique time-period, you should already know – if only from bitter experience of his recent oeuvre – that you’re in eighth-rate Allen territory.
(12) Bush's fantastical lyrics, influenced by children's literature, esoteric mystical knowledge, daydreams and the lore and legends of old Albion, seemed irrelevant, and deficient in street-cred at a time of tower-block social realism and agit-prop.
(13) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
(14) Such mystical guidance always remained important to him.
(15) As for individuals, intent on shielding themselves from paying tax, intent on giving nothing back, I fail to see the mystical benefit of their physical presence in the UK.
(16) Going beyond, an attempt is made, and this, solely from the anthropological standpoint, to apply these data to the religious and mystical act of Eucharistic Manducation.
(17) The film reflects the conciliatory, almost mystical mood of a man who emerged from prison as a mediator, philosopher and president-in-waiting.
(18) The study of spatial marks implies looking for the fundamental marks of the human being as well as the existence of a mystical space that has to be differenciated from a pathological space.
(19) Stanford University might have been the cradle for a hundred Silicon Valley startups and the hothouse for some of its greatest technical innovations, but the Singularity University is an institution that has been made in the valley's own image: highly networked, fuelled by a cocktail of philanthro-capitalism and endowed with an almost mystical sense of its own destiny.
(20) I’ll call them the Mystic East, the Dead Centre, and the Wild West.