sibylline

Example Sentences

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It is as old as the sibylline books.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2016

Also because I was influenced by a late-blooming acquaintance with Wagner operas, discovering that their aesthetic, which I had assumed to be bombastic, really relies on sibylline continuities.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 3, 2016

Mr. Jeremiah also brought impressive power and intensity to Moto Osada’s sibylline “Four Nights of Dream,” the only opera with a male protagonist.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2012

Some political soothsayers took this sibylline pronouncement as a hint that Truman did not intend to run again.

From Time Magazine Archive

On such occasions he favors us with such doctrine as the following, which we confess we had the weakness to read with "sibylline execration" and extreme disgust.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret