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to perceive things beyond the natural range of the senses — especially foreseeing the future- Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists.Ursula K. LeGuin
- She's either clairvoyant or highly intuitive.
- She felt it, and visioned it as by an unthinkable clairvoyance, and gaspedJack London -- The Valley of the Moon
- Like clairvoyants, you might say.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Or it's called telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinetics.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- "What! you don't know Jules Landau, le fameux Jules Landau, le clairvoyant?Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- 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.James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
- For a moment, I thought he was clairvoyant.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- "My dear, you were undoubtedly stimulated by the extraordinary clairvoyant vibrations of my room!" said Professor Trelawney.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- In fact, it felt as if the name had existed all along, and she'd finally been clairvoyant enough to stumble across it.Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
- 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.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- You are disturbing the clairvoyant vibrations!J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Pregnancy was making every one of her senses stronger, more intense, and I swear sometimes she seemed almost clairvoyant.Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You
- 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.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- Not because she was clairvoyant and had had a sudden flash of prophetic vision.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- 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.William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury
- 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 ....Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- Hopton Stoddard glowed in appreciation—in appreciation of the clairvoyant wisdom of Ellsworth Toohey who was always right.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- She is prescient and clairvoyant and somehow divines the thoughts of others.Stephen King -- Rose Red
- She was apparently taking some comfort in the Doctor's clairvoyancy.Henry James -- Washington Square