Sentence examples for a presentiment that from inspiring English sources

But in retrospect, the heavy presence of soldiers and the military in his films suggests a presentiment that turned out to be correct.

A presentiment that her beloved Daniel would die someday, most likely before she did, and she would be alone.

It was up to the owner, who seemed to have a presentiment that if he allowed the object to depart, his father would die.

Hanover, N.H. — SURVEYING the aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris, most Americans probably feel despair, and a presentiment that it is only a matter of time before something similar happens here.

Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?

Apparently Mr. Hartley had a presentiment that one day he would meet his end at sea, and it may have been no sudden inspiration that led him at the last moment to direct his orchestra to play "Nearer, my God, to Thee".

"Even though the very detectives who were gathering evidence and witnesses against Cinnamon Brown all felt 'hinky' about the case--nagged by a chill presentiment that they were hunting down a rabbit when a coyote lurked nearby..

In the grocery store, listening to the same talk over and over, I began to feel a superstitious fear, the presentiment that in these endless discussions something awful was being hatched.

You could argue that last summer's riots were the dire presentiments that he offered me a decade ago coming true – something under your nose that you tried to ignore punching you in the face – but he was nonplussed by media suggestions that he should make some kind of statement.

That the reader has a presentiment of what will happen doesn't necessarily impoverish its affecting mystery.

Much suffering and grief lay in the past, but there was a presentiment, even as things ended in Saigon, that the future held more of the same.