And if they chance to see the shooting of a star, they presently pronounce their king guilty of some offence against the gods, and thereupon he is immediately suspended from all exercise of regal power, till he is relieved by an oracle from Delphi or Olympia.
The process of mending in this case assumes some highly fanciful forms: an oracle from the temple of Apollo (the occasion for a charming coup de théâtre), a man devoured by a bear, a changeling princess who grows up believing she's a shepherd's daughter, and an inanimate work of art that comes to life.
The historian sweated over it and turned out a corker, or anyhow the publishers said it was a corker-an oracle stolen from one of the temples, knifings, kidnappings, screams in the darkened cellars of the Colosseum.
And his trainer is Naazim Richardson, forty-five, a beefy oracle from Philadelphia who delivers parables and observations in a low, fuzzy voice.
But what's new is Riviere's use of Google as an oracle, the results from which are strained through his own subjectivity, leading to poems that are at once organic and mechanical, personal and, in a sense, objective.
This paper describes a method for empirical algorithm design, called database learning, using which an algorithm is constructed based on the solutions produced by an oracle on instances from a given input domain.
It uses O(n3) time in-place computation of maximum matching in a bipartite graph, where the vertices are given in an array, and the existence of an edge between a pair of vertices can be checked by an oracle on demand (from problem specification) in O(1) time.
Here, we assume perfect knowledge of actor head pose direction (from an oracle).
The voice here is strange in the word's original sense — foreign — as if it were coming from an oracle who stopped worrying about humankind centuries ago.
Even when she's down home, she exudes the cool regality of an oracle contemplating the field from a pedestal that affords a long, sad-eyed view.
Aaron Glenn, whose 104-yard return of a missed field-goal attempt for a touchdown appeared to be a knockout blow for the Jets, said the defeat was a loss, not a statement from an oracle.
