clairvoyancein a sentence
- She's either clairvoyant or highly intuitive.
- Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. (source)
- "My dear, you were undoubtedly stimulated by the extraordinary clairvoyant vibrations of my room!" said Professor Trelawney.† (source)
- In fact, it felt as if the name had existed all along, and she'd finally been clairvoyant enough to stumble across it.† (source)
- Robbie held the man's eye and answered pleasantly that his father had walked out long ago and that his mother was a charlady who supplemented her income as an occasional clairvoyant.† (source)
- Carrel was a mystic who believed in telepathy and clairvoyance, and thought it was possible for humans to live several centuries through the use of suspended animation.† (source)
- She sometimes wrapped her head in scarves and worked as a cook and domestic, usually for white people, but beneath her domestic look was an intelligent, clairvoyant woman who understood more about me as a mixed child than I understood about myself.† (source)
- Not because she was clairvoyant and had had a sudden flash of prophetic vision.† (source)
- I could go about the fairs, he said, and be a fire-eater, or else a medical clairvoyant, and trade in Mesmerism and Magnetism, which is always a draw.† (source)
- In those days Hildebranda Sanchez was delirious with hope after visiting a fortuneteller whose clairvoyance had astonished her.† (source)
- And in seeing these sudden coalescences of vision and in recall of some strange fragment of thought whose origin I have no idea of, I'm like a clairvoyant, a spirit medium receiving messages from another world.† (source)
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- Or it's called telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinetics.† (source)
- A reverse clairvoyance.† (source)
- Especially—though he doesn't say this—if she's going to censor the clairvoyance of his several glasses of rum.† (source)
- "Your clairvoyant Frenchman," Cass said, "was right."† (source)
- They drove south through a white space on the map, headed for the entrance to the refuge, and he recalled something Eric Deming had told him about this part of Arizona, a rumor, a sort of twilight zone story about people known as sensitives, men and women who were psychically gifted—telepathists, clairvoyants, metal-benders.† (source)
- They had the power of prophecy and clairvoyance.† (source)
- A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you.† (source)
- The truth is that though many of us do have a gift for precognition or clairvoyance, the vast majority of our people have simply learned to listen to their intuition—which is something most humans have been frightened out of doing:' Her tone was much like it was in her classroom, and I listened to her eagerly while we ate.† (source)
- Marcos maintained that his niece's gift could be a source of income and a good opportunity for him to cultivate his own clairvoyance.† (source)
- Like clairvoyants, you might say.† (source)
- For a moment, I thought he was clairvoyant.† (source)
- Pregnancy was making every one of her senses stronger, more intense, and I swear sometimes she seemed almost clairvoyant.† (source)
- "Clairvoyance," mumbled the once and former judge.† (source)
- She is prescient and clairvoyant and somehow divines the thoughts of others.† (source)
- Joe slid a finger down the smooth silver-plated frame and across the glass, as if he were clairvoyant and able to read the meaning of the photograph by absorbing a lingering psychic energy from it.† (source)
- It was experience, not clairvoyance, which brought Abigail instant recognition of the nature of the conflict.† (source)
- In the eyes of Bindo Altoviti, Alessandro saw wisdom and amusement, and he knew why the subjects of paintings and photographs seemed to look from the past as if with clairvoyance.† (source)
- The saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from.† (source)
- Sophie had a confused and unformed belief in precognition, even of clairvoyance (on several occasions she had sensed or predicted coming events), although she did not connect it with the supernatural.† (source)
- The moonlit night was extraordinary, like merciful love or the gift of clairvoyance.† (source)
- The borealis flickered around her features and tightly gowned figure, but it could not disguise the fact that although she had ambition, avarice, and ingenuity, she was utterly devoid of sensitivity and clairvoyance.† (source)
- In a mood of bitter but dreamy clairvoyance she followed Dick around, and at last told herself she should give up making suggestions and trying to prod him into commonsense.† (source)
- She felt it, and visioned it as by an unthinkable clairvoyance, and gasped (source)
- You are disturbing the clairvoyant vibrations!† (source)
- But Ursula was insensible to his clairvoyance.† (source)
- Clara the Clairvoyant could interpret dreams.† (source)
- She knew it: she felt transparent, clairvoyant, containing all things.† (source)
- At this moment I can foretell events With the fatidical clairvoyance of the Sybils.† (source)
- But there are clairvoyants and mediums, aren't there, who are constantly experiencing things like that?† (source)
- But then I recalled that he'd once travelled about as a Mesmerist, and done medical clairvoyance at fairs, and really did know the arts of such things, and might put me into a trance.† (source)
- At the time she could not explain what hidden impulses of her reason had allowed her that clairvoyance, but many years later, on the eve of old age, she uncovered them suddenly and without knowing how during a casual conversation about Florentino Ariza.† (source)
- The flashbacks came out of nowhere: a joint or cigarette would set them off, or nothing at all-I'd be walking down the street and suddenly find myself blasted, tripping, that acid clairvoyancy high where people seem to be made of glass and the back of your hand becomes a purple star.† (source)
- The poor were sent to the colonial cemetery, located on a windy hill that was separated from the city by a dry canal whose mortar bridge bore the legend carved there by order of some clairvoyant mayor: Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate.† (source)
- He's been told of the clairvoyant powers of those under hypnosis, but he's never believed in them before.† (source)
- You could be a medical clairvoyant; I would teach you how, and instruct you in what to say, and put you into the trances.† (source)
- No clairvoyance was required to know that their shoulders were slumped not only under the weight of the storm but under the weight of defeat.† (source)
- Aureliano, whose mysterious intuition had become sharpened with the misfortune, felt a glow of clairvoyance when he saw her come in.† (source)
- It was common knowledge that the Jackal could reach into the S? reté and Interpol, and it took no clairvoyance to assume that Medusa could penetrate the army's G-2.† (source)
- Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for the first time she saw clearly the truths that her busy life in former times had prevented her from seeing.† (source)
- With clairvoyance, honored Judge!† (source)
- Clairvoyants have long claimed to feel a residue of psychic energy on common objects, left by the people who have touched them.† (source)
- In fact there were times when she would have been delighted to escape her grandmother's clairvoyance, her mother's intuition, and the clamor of all the eccentric people who were constantly appearing, disappearing, and reappearing in the big house on the corner.† (source)
- Fernanda, however, realized that there was a sun of clairvoyance in the shadows of that wandering, for Ursula could say without hesitation how much money had been spent in the house during the previous year.† (source)
- But it soon became abundantly clear that he had not the slightest talent for clairvoyance or telekinesis, and he was forced to be content with the mechanics of astrological charts, tarot cards, and the I Ching.† (source)
- He had the same languor and the same clairvoyant look that he would have years later as he faced the firing squad.† (source)
- Clara the Clairvoyant Clara was ten years old when she decided that speaking was pointless and locked herself in silence.† (source)
- He was delicate, thin, with a curiosity that unnerved the adults, but unlike the inquisitive and sometimes clairvoyant look that the colonel had at his age, his look was blinking and somewhat distracted.† (source)
- The two loves of my life, Rosa of the green hair and Clara the clairvoyant, the two sisters I adored, merged into one.† (source)
- Through her tears Amaranta Ursula could see that he was one of those great Buendias, strong and willful like the Jose Arcadios, with the open and clairvoyant eyes of the Aurelianos, and predisposed to begin the race again from the beginning and cleanse it of its pernicious vices and solitary calling, for he was the only one in a century who had been engendered with love.† (source)
- She also helped us write, and thanks to her presence Esteban Trueba was able to die happy, murmuring her name: Clara, clearest, clairvoyant.† (source)
- Clara let herself be shepherded around with a sweetness that was not stupidity but distraction, and she devoted all her powers of concentration to vain attempts to communicate with Esteban by telepathy—her messages did not arrive—and to perfecting her abilities as a clairvoyant.† (source)
- The young girl entered the room with blazing cheeks and blackened nails; she had been outside helping the gardener plant dahlia bulbs, and just this once her clairvoyant faculties had failed her, leaving her unprepared to meet her visitor in more suitable attire.† (source)
- …in danger, she doesn't do it to be mean, really, just the opposite, she does it because her heart knows no limits, just like her grandmother, who still runs around ministering to the poor behind my back in the abandoned wing of the house, my clairvoyant Clara, and anyone who tells Alba people are after him gets her to risk her life for him, even if he's a total stranger, I've already told her, I warned her time and again they could lay a trap for her and one day it would turn out that…† (source)
- The High Lama, for instance, spends almost his entire life in clairvoyant meditation.† (source)
- Perhaps he knew that he was going back; perhaps with his child's clairvoyance he had known all the while what the man had not: that it would not, could not, last.† (source)
- It's not twelve hours yet since it happened …… Oh! aren't there any real clairvoyants who could see where he is now and what he is doing ….† (source)
- Hopton Stoddard glowed in appreciation—in appreciation of the clairvoyant wisdom of Ellsworth Toohey who was always right.† (source)
- We do as we think fit, guided a little by the example of the past, but still more by our present wisdom, and by our clairvoyance of the future.† (source)
- Ellen of course was not aware of this, anymore than the aunt herself was, or would have believed what was going to happen even if she had been clairvoyant, could actually have seen the rehearsal of events before time produced them.† (source)
- She had read them like a clairvoyant, breathed them in and given them back, so that they had a form of their own and came to me as something new.† (source)
- You know Zara, the clairvoyant?† (source)
- He heard the ghostly ticking of his life; his powerful clairvoyance, the wild Scotch gift of Eliza, burned inward back across the phantom years, plucking out of the ghostly shadows a million gleams of light—a little station by the rails at dawn, the road cleft through the pineland seen at twilight, a smoky cabin-light below the trestles, a boy who ran among the bounding calves, a wisp-haired slattern, with snuff-sticked mouth, framed in a door, floury negroes unloading sacks from…† (source)
- But he knew that her sorrow at that moment was not for him or for herself, or even for the boy whom idiot chance had thrust in the way of pestilence, but that, with a sudden inner flaming of her clairvoyant Scotch soul, she had looked cleanly, without pretense for the first time, upon the inexorable tides of Necessity, and that she was sorry for all who had lived, were living, or would live, fanning with their prayers the useless altar flames, suppliant with their hopes to an unwitting…† (source)
- …which she could not have been always certain that he was still alive; this father who should see that man one time, yet have reason to make a six hundred mile journey to investigate him and either discover what he already and apparently by clairvoyance suspected, or at least something which served just as well as reason for forbidding the marriage; this brother in whose eyes that sister's and daughter's honor and happiness, granted that curious and unusual relationship which existed…† (source)
- Thus bigotry and clairvoyance were practically one, only the bigotry was a little slow, for as Joe, descending on his rope, slid like a fast shadow across the open and moonfilled window behind which McEachern lay, McEachern did not at once recognise him or perhaps believe what he saw, even though he could see the very rope itself.† (source)
- …after that first Christmas—the metropolitan gallant's idle and delicately flattering (and doubtless to him, meaningless) gesture to the bucolic maiden—and that bucolic maiden, with that profound and absolutely inexplicable tranquil patient clairvoyance of women against which that metropolitan gallant's foppish posturing was just the jackanape antics of a small boy, receiving the letters without understanding them, not even keeping them, for all their elegant and gallant and tediously…† (source)
- He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a little stiffly forward as though in some juggernautish simulation of terrific speed though the actual speed itself was absent, as if in that cold and implacable and undeviating conviction of both omnipotence and clairvoyance of which they both partook known destination and speed were not necessary.† (source)
- But I am not clairvoyant, like you.† (source)
- …he didn't) except for that two hundred percent times the intrinsic value every New Year's; —the water backing up from the stick and rising and spreading about him steady and quiet as light and him sitting there in the actual white glare of clairvoyance (or second sight or faith in human misfortune and folly or whatever you want to call it) that was showing him not only what might happen but what was actually going to happen and him declining to believe it was going to happen, not…† (source)
- …believed that what must be would be, could not but be else I must deny sanity as well as breath, running, hurling myself into that inscrutable coffee-colored face, that cold implacable mindless (no, not mindless: anything but mindless. his own clairvoyant will tempered to amoral evil's undeviating absolute by the black willing blood with which be had crossed it) replica of his own which he had created and decreed to preside upon his absence, as you might watch a wild distracted…† (source)
- And yet he felt some sympathy for the melancholy fate of his clairvoyant great-aunt.† (source)
- Poor fellow—one might have been tempted to say he had the look of a clairvoyant or a sleepwalker.† (source)
- "What! you don't know Jules Landau, le fameux Jules Landau, le clairvoyant?† (source)
- She was apparently taking some comfort in the Doctor's clairvoyancy.† (source)
- He scowled and looked clairvoyant.† (source)
- With the eyes of his Tienappel forebear—penetrating, clairvoyant eyes—he beheld a familiar part of his body, and for the first time in his life he understood that he would die.† (source)
- Like everyone else, over the course of his life Hans Castorp had heard one thing or another about arcane natural, or supernatural, phenomena—there has already been mention made of his clairvoyant great-aunt, whose melancholy story had been passed down to him.† (source)
- He waited, his spine pressed against the high chairback, his gaze clairvoyant at hearing that voice anew; but he was once again uncertain whether she was still behind him, afraid that the scraps of music from the next room might have drowned out her departing footsteps.† (source)
- The blind clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those who condemned as well as of the man condemned,—he had looked on…† (source)
- Catherine went on with growing vehemence, pouring out in her bitterness and in the clairvoyance of her passion (which suddenly, jumping all processes, made her judge her aunt finally and without appeal) the uneasiness which had lain for so many months upon her heart.† (source)
- Next, the two destroyed a Trojan pair in their war-car— sons of Merops Perkosios, clairvoyant beyond all men, who had denied his sons permission to join man-wasting war.† (source)
- It was as though his eyes were holding their breath, while his mother looked at him, her face flaccid and querulous, interminable, clairvoyant yet obtuse.† (source)
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