Sentence examples for of a premonition from inspiring English sources

The joke was something of a premonition.

Summer didn't reveal that she had cancer: "My wife had much more of a premonition that something was wrong.

Before the crash that killed his wife, Ann, Stevens is reported to have spoken of a premonition that he would die in a plane crash.

Those who have been paying attention will remember that, in episode three, Ray's father appeared to him in a dream and warned of a premonition that he had of Ray running through the trees and being shot "to pieces".

In the manuscript, the phrase "half rock, half sand" has been added as an afterthought, and, as we read on, that geological blend the reliably hard and secure compounded with the dangerously shifting takes on the texture of a premonition.

Business daily Vedomosti speaks of a "premonition of civil war": "The regime that has gambled on hatred finds it difficult to refrain from escalating violence both abroad and at home... Russia will inevitably be different," says the paper's editorial.

Aesthetics in the last third of 18th century France saw developments in divergent directions, most of them being based either on dissatisfaction with the present or on a premonition of a new order.

This is the state of a painting when Assael completes his absurdly involved method of editing order out of chaos: a premonition of a universal omega point.

Expectation of an inevitable defeat gave way to a premonition of victory.

Her disquiet at the heights of summer: a premonition of decline.

This is a very Gelsey detail; it's as if, in all the sunny joy of the dance, she had an instant of foreboding, a premonition.