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sibylline

[sib-uh-leen, -lahyn, -lin] / ˈsɪb əˌlin, -ˌlaɪn, -lɪn /


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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

In San Francisco as an apostle of Culture in behalf of the Container Corporation of America, Communications Prophet Marshall McLuhan, 55, whose sibylline pronouncements have so often been models of noncommunication, explained the McLuhan phenomenon.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are placed on the squares called by the bag-holder, who draws numbers haphazard from his sibylline sack.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee




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