Sentence examples for with a presentiment from inspiring English sources
Along with a presentiment of disaster, this very unsettling event ushers in something surreal and hallucinatory: a sense that mad dogs and Englishmen of the criminal classes are going loopy in the midday sun - of a piece with Gary's nightmares and anxiety attacks played out in the featureless scrub.
"What time did that happen?" I asked, with a disturbing presentiment.
Those most at risk -- the South Sea islanders, with their simple societies and values -- did seem quickest to grasp the new religion, led by rulers with a shrewd presentiment of the dangers and conflicts ahead.
"Menuet" starts with sparkling Classical energy before taking a turn toward a presentiment of death.
(Mrs Blackburne had originally intended to travel on the inaugural journey with her husband, but the previous day had felt a presentiment that something was wrong at home and her presence was required, and had returned alone by boat.
"Maybe Napoleon had a presentiment of disaster.
Why did all of this come to me as a presentiment?
Maybe it was a presentiment, maybe it was the sort of destiny that Yiddish calls "goyrl".
That the reader has a presentiment of what will happen doesn't necessarily impoverish its affecting mystery.
Or maybe Mami had a presentiment of what was to come.
