(n.) Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was the time he met Steve McQueen in Cornwall in 1970 and joined him as a pillion passenger on a spontaneous four-day off-road motorbike trip, staying in "Devonshire country inns", during which bonding experience McQueen revealed to him, as he had to no one else, his violence toward his first wife, the criminality of his childhood and his premonitions of death (a story which, 40 years on, forms the basis of Steve McQueen: Living on the Edge , recently lucratively serialised in the Sunday Times ).
(2) Yuri's gaze turns back to the sky, peppered now with dry fallen leaves (a premonition, perhaps, of the petals cast before the viceroy in A Passage to India).
(3) The event begins with a premonition of what will happen from a street name.
(4) His distorted image presented in court reflected what some of his accusers were, and what others took to be a premonition of the fall that was coming now that sex, like an Edenic apple, had been tasted for the first time in all its polymorphous perversity.Writing of the effects of liberalising legislation on abortion, gay sex and the reduction of censorship in the 60s, Andrew Marr in A History of Modern Britain stresses this lapsarian image: "A fair verdict is that the changes allowed the British to be more openly themselves, and that while the results are not pretty, the apple of self-knowledge cannot be uneaten again and returned to the tree."
(5) Premonition’s technology can optimise large job sets, rerouting multiple vehicles in real-time based on a plethora of factors: changed traffic conditions, weather, delivery windows, incoming orders and returns, truck capacity, a driver’s final destination and consumer requests such as redirected parcels.
(6) I knew it when I read Amadeus for the first time, I knew it when I read the screenplay of Four Weddings and a Funeral (I had a premonition that I was going to be the funeral), and I knew it some years before either of those illustrious projects when in 1976 – I'd only been acting for three years – an actor friend, Richard Quick, handed me an untitled, unbound manuscript which proved to be the scabrous Sixteen Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis adapted into a one-man show.
(7) We thought it was a little film for kids: we had absolutely no premonition of the success it would have.
(8) Zero carbon emissions target to be enshrined in UK law Read more Premonition is working with close to a dozen Australian clients, including several “household names” with fleets in the range of 2,000-plus vehicles, according to Lorge.
(9) He conceded that his mother had gone a little off the rails towards the end of her life by taking up with swamis and yogis and consulting astrologers (she had premonitions, correctly, of a violent death), but she had brought him up to be agnostic and "secular", a word that in India has to bear too much hope.
(10) To realistically expand into this domain and have a meaningful impact, Premonition will need to expand its team of nine employees.
(11) Back in July, 21 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a skirmish near the Libyan border, in what some considered a premonition of what may be to come.
(12) Dreams as premonitions of disease have been reported since the classical era, and hypnagogic hallucinations, so named by Alfred Maury and viewed as "psychosensory hallucinations" by Baillarger in the 1840s (extending the Kantian definition of the madman as a "waking dreamer"), have been reported since the Renaissance.
(13) Today, mobile consumers want to be in control, they want to see and understand what’s happening with their delivery in real time, and they want more options and flexibility about when and where their delivery will arrive.” Premonition’s tools help shipping companies communicate directly with consumers and hit tighter delivery windows, with some clients providing windows inside 30 minutes.
(14) It shows the virgin with Christ in her lap, but it's a premonition of the Pietà .
(15) Various functions of the ego influence how time is experienced consciously, leading to phenomena such as déjà vu, a sensation of timelessness, misjudgment of time duration, the experience of premonition.
(16) Fits and coronary thrombosis, of which drivers frequently had some premonition, caused few serious accidents, although the latter was usually lethal.
(17) IBM is testing a robot concierge in a Hilton hotel , something that is both a gimmick and a premonition.
(18) I think it might have been a premonition on her part.
(19) He says Premonition’s approach is to think “about logistics as a service to consumers rather than just a network of trucks”.
(20) The wintry scene outside her window that morning, Wadley told the newsroom, had prompted a premonition: "I thought, 'the Russians really are coming'."
Prescience
Definition:
(n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I didn’t know that Rachel’s early writing - before she even thought of travelling to the Middle East, from her days as a schoolgirl, through college, to life working at a mental-health centre in her home town of Olympia, Washington - would be similarly fascinating, and contain such elements of chilling prescience.
(2) Arguments of considerable ferocity will arise as to whether a new piece of equipment would have been bought anyway with the risk that the government ends up funnelling billions of dollars to companies to subsidise their profits without achieving any real additional cuts to emissions,” you told parliament, with remarkable prescience.
(3) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” With grim prescience, she even talked about how shooting Jewish people displayed attackers’ vulnerability, because it showed they felt unable to sit down and talk.
(4) What more timely image could there be for his departure than a Christmas costume and a prescience for all the humbug that will inevitably attend his death.
(5) With extraordinary prescience he distinguished emotional states associated with the suppression of digestion from those that were accompanied by accelerated gastric secretory and motor function.
(6) With what now looks like great prescience, Labour blogger Dan Hodges responded on Twitter: "Maurice Glasman has the black spot of Watson upon him.
(7) David Lammy, MP for Tottenham paid tribute to his friend's intellectual range and prescience: "He was one of those 'cut-through' academics that could write in an incredibly erudite, Ivy-league way but who could also explain things in a way that could be understood by the ordinary man and woman.
(8) In general, studies of coagulation proteins under defined conditions have demonstrated the prescience of Davie and Ratnoff and MacFarlane in their proposals of the coagulation cascade.
(9) Writing of gilded age monopolists and robber barons, Twain's prescience is remarkable: he denounces Jay Gould, the financier and speculator, for example, as "the mightiest disaster which has ever befallen this country".
(10) If Harriet Harman decided against running because of the stream of vitriol that might be unleashed, well – you can only admire her prescience.
(11) "The first game can give you a picture," Paolo Di Canio said beforehand with some prescience.
(12) Whether through prescience or wild optimism, Lord Porter claims to have foreseen the result of this year’s general election.
(13) Is his prescience born out of prophecy, or is it the product of something else?
(14) She replied: “The little party always gets smashed!” Former MP for Sheffield Hallam Nick Clegg is testament to Merkel’s prescience on that one, and I would not be in the least surprised if May is in fact attempting to assemble some kind of informal Brexit coalition with Labour, so that when the inevitable leaks about shambolic negotiations arrive on the 6 o’clock news, poor old Jeremy Corbyn will be on hand to take the blame.
(15) But what is clear is that Birkenstock successfully, and with prescience, identified the burgeoning interest in self-improvement through accessorising.
(16) Hence OCSC president Rawlins knew the biggest test of his prescience lay in convincing the local powers-that-be of a public-private funding partnership, along with proving their own financial bona fides.
(17) Brian Baxter writes: With uncharacteristic prescience, Bafta crowned Paul Scofield as best newcomer for his screen debut in That Lady.
(18) While the name FutureDairy is freighted with prescience for an era yet to be reached, it is, in fact, already arriving and transforming the economies and lifestyles of the early adopters.
(19) Gore's prescience Environment journalism has come a long way since 1975 when Geoffrey Lean – then of the Observer, now of the Telegraph – became the first dedicated correspondent.
(20) Supporters of the administration have pointed to the prescience of the speech, while critics argue it has in part become a self-fulfilling prophecy by serving to isolate Tehran and Pyongyang.