Sentence examples for 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.

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.

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?

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.

As the numbers expand, these so-called twin primes become ever rarer, and the presentiment develops that these were accidents, and "that solitude is the true destiny".

And just to balance my negative opening, here's a short ode to the lawn by Emily Dickinson to finish with: Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

I never know, at a grammatical level, if what is being said is that presentiment is like a long shadow at sunset, or if sunsets (or the shadows they project) are like presentiments.

The three time-reversed effects described above can be viewed as conceptual replications of the presentiment experiments in that all these experiments assessed affective responses to emotionally arousing stimuli before those stimuli were randomly selected and displayed.