Sentence examples for a foreknowledge of from inspiring English sources

Wilde seemed to have a foreknowledge of his destiny.

True to autumn, there is also an awareness of imminent loss; a foreknowledge of a long, cold winter to come.

He also held that a foreknowledge of the way a thing worked robbed it of most of its illusion and glamour for the beholder.

A greater liberty is taken when he attributes to Dante a foreknowledge of the Einsteinian concept of the space-time continuum ("just like a wheel/That spins so evenly it measures time/By space... ..), but then that's forgivable as a secular translation of divine omnipotency.

God has mercifully withheld from humanity a foreknowledge of what will sell.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events.

After all, we didn't go into that Labor Day with any foreknowledge of what would follow a week later.

On second viewing, with a queasy foreknowledge of what was to come, I found it intolerably sad.

We studied serum samples from 182 separate participants for whom we had a complete set of clinical characteristics, listed in Table 1, but without any foreknowledge of C-peptide values.

It is capable of separating all the components of a multicomponent chemical mixture without requiring an extensive foreknowledge of the identity, number, or relative amounts of the substances present.

He comments about these pieces: "In the traditional work of the artist, everything is fixed by a system of signs and concepts of which a foreknowledge is required for the enjoyment of such work.