There are many others, and cumulatively they have an almost biblical resonance that matches the prophetic nature of much of his architecture.
Futures are apprehended only in the prophetic mode of the inspired historian.
Already in 1962, the prophetic scholar of media Marshall McLuhan foresaw the coming of a "global village": a planet in which information spread as fast as in the farming village of yore.
But they also reveal Bulfinch's own prophetic sense of the massive volumes of space and stone that would define later neoclassicism, exemplified in the structures designed by Robert Mills for the nation's capital and in the South.
" David Bomberg, a brilliant graduate of London's Slade School, who was painting admirably adventurous pictures of his own, remembered decades later that "the tense figure operating the Drill as if it were a Machine Gun" amounted to "a Prophetic Symbol of the impending war.
Among early Christians, the millennialists were those, frowned on by Jerome and Augustine, who wanted to keep alive the excitement of a prophetic creed in the face of an institutionalising state religion.
Right at the beginning of the post-Prophetic period in the history of Islam and Muslims there was a fork on the road, and the manner in which the path to go ahead was chosen selecting Abu Bakr as the successor of the Prophet of God, Khalifat Rasul Allah, was burdened with grief and discontent.
The task of re-reading Muslim history, specially the earliest years of the post-Prophetic period, is not one of retrospectively reading our standards into what was narrated in the formative period, but finding clues in that narrative to explain the subsequent development of Muslim politics into our time.
It means taking every aspect of the Prophetic conduct as a lesson to be reflected upon and followed.
And so to wait would, I think, for me, in my opinion, weaken our prophetic voice and the relevance of this resolution.
The arch-proponent of deficit spending had been proved prophetic in predicting the damage inflicted on the world economy by the Versailles reparations.
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But weeks later his words appeared prophetic when he was arrested by military investigators on suspicion of stealing secret information.
Best known for what they call "gifts of the Holy Spirit, " like speaking in tongues and giving prophetic utterances, Pentecostals seek a direct, personal connection to God.
There seems to be a desire to ascribe to the Maya supernatural prophetic powers they did not possess but a failure to appreciate the true wonders of their civilization.
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Nowhere has this prophetic idea proved more true than in college athletics, a business where the concept of success has been tainted by the delusional notions of grandeur of leadership that lacks a fundamental understanding of the importance that culture plays in building something great.
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Put simply Clarke wrote a prophetic book about the coming cybergeddon and successfully raised the issues around cyber conflict to the level of national attention they deserve.
As the accidental titan of American destiny, Walter Huston dominates the film with a sly yet grand manner and a prophetic diction.
On the contrary, many of his less-provocative arguments and insights, especially those related to resource scarcity, appear close to prophetic at times.
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