Sentence examples for prophetic picture from inspiring English sources

Underneath the message is what now appears a prophetic picture – of British Leyland's Austin Allegro, a symbol of British naffness and failure.

In these works Diderot developed his materialist philosophy and arrived at startling intuitive insights into biology and chemistry; in speculating on the origins of life without divine intervention, for instance, he foreshadowed the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and put forth a strikingly prophetic picture of the cellular structure of matter.

Hugely influential not only upon successive photographers but also modern artists such as Francis Bacon, Muybridge's images, which in retrospect seem so prophetic of motion pictures, offered a novel way of visualising the world, more accurate than the human eye.

Longo's picture looks prophetic and monumental.

The poem continues, gradually edging out of the picture the prophetic "Ezra" and his thwarted attempts to stamp his name upon the world.

Ballard, known for being eerily prophetic, presented a dystopic picture in which everyone had to work all day to keep the economy going – even when they were at home.

The other figure who differs from the rest is a young woman who sits staring out of the picture with prophetic intensity.

In this meditative biography, Slaughter provides sensitive readings of Woolman's writings in order to draw a picture of a "prophetic Old Testament radical" who practiced a patient and methodical mode of activism.

So it is the Turners that most affronted the stuffy Victorians, mired as they were in anecdotal sentimentality and ponderous literalism, with which we most easily identify: pictures big with prophetic courage, the inkling of an alternative life for paint.

Even after it became venerated as a prophetic tale, the director didn't push the picture to get himself into the news.

Another motion picture, "Network" written by the legendary Paddy Chayefsky was prophetic on the subject in 1976.