Delphic

Example Sentences

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The court’s fairly Delphic order retains a stay on the case pending its consideration of the merits, with oral arguments scheduled for the week of April 22.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2024

Pythagoras himself was said to have been inspired to study philosophy by the Delphic priestess Themistoclea.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The multiple frame photography and video works, lavishly textured and devotionally rendered, operate as Delphic objects, portals to nature.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2021

In doing so, Oedipus had, however inadvertently, fulfilled the first part of a previous Delphic prophecy: that he would kill his father and marry his mother.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2020

‘Yes, but I’m the god of many things! Poetry, music, the Delphic Oracle -’ He broke into a sob and covered his mouth with his fist.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan