But glider pilots can make do in far less ideal conditions, scanning the sky for rising air like a seer sifting sense from tea leaves.
The "SEER group" included men aged 67 years and older with incident prostate cancer registered in a SEER tumor registry from 1993 to 1999 who received at least one dose of a GnRH agonist within a year of cancer diagnosis (restricting the analysis to men receiving at least six doses did not substantially alter the results).
But as Telemachus was thus busied, praying also and sacrificing to Minerva in the ship's stern, there came to him a man from a distant country, a seer, who was flying from Argos because he had killed a man.
DeLillo is a seer – we know this from his uncanny prediction of 9/11 in Players, his proleptic portrait of the 2009 financial crash in Cosmopolis – and Zero K again feels like a demonstration of the way a great novelist moves one or two steps ahead of the real, constructing pathways into the future.
The outcomes are based on data from a SEER registry, which does not routinely collect recurrence.
The algorithm derived for this study used Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with OP cancer in 2002 and subjects from a SEER area that did not link to the SEER tumor registry.
This is different from being a seer: we can't tell you what's going to happen.
A dead black swan, a blind seer, a visitor from the realm of death: portents pile up for the outcast Hester Swane in Marina Carr's bleak play from 1998.
This is a function of his peasant, punkish ultra-confidence in the value of his pure (unegotistic) honesty, as an adolescent seeing through the adult hypocrisy and convention veiling the sensual, unsane world; a boy to whom language was understood as inextricable (to the seer) from reality, and who knew how to wield those words, existence itself.
Under rules rushed in during the final days of the Clinton Administration, makers of central air units must boost the minimum Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio, or SEER, from 10 to 13 over the next five years.
He is in a long tradition of ecstatic seers from Sappho to Walt Whitman".
