Professional fortune-tellers politicians, bureaucrats, industrialists, economists and analysts—generally come up with a dimmer prognosis than the Delhi soothsayer.
Prophecies of what will happen to France in the new year, were made by the nine most oracular professional fortune-tellers in vogue, and published by a couple of Paris news papers.
After four increasingly difficult years, Huxley's professional fortunes improved in 1854.
This established almost a routine of dependence and rejection that accounts for several later swings in his professional fortunes.
From early childhood, they had subjected her to a relentless training regimen, promoting her career with all the desperate hope born of a terminal "period of ebb" in their own professional fortunes.
Mr. Connelly's professional fortunes, chronicled in a documentary that will be shown on Monday on HBO, have gone from selling "Ausburg," a painting from his first New York show, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984 to compensating his accountant with a painting in recent years.
Lodge and other psychical researchers allowed themselves to be fooled by the tricks of professional fortune-tellers and sleight-of-hand artists posing as spiritualists.
By 2003, though, Stone's personal and professional fortunes began to wane.
In the 1990s, she'd enjoyed a long period of personal and professional good fortune, in which she published an acclaimed autobiography and released several very fine albums, including Before the Poison, widely regarded as her finest since 1979's Broken English.
Elba doesn't want to sound ungrateful for his professional good fortune.
The sports columnist is a professional hostage to fortune.
