| We take no pleasure in that, and we had to endure some criticism for making such claims, but the warnings proved prescient. |
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| A few months later, I recall rereading it and finding it scary and prescient. |
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| Read it, then come back and re-read this prescient post from last November. |
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| Those two songs have proved remarkably prescient in their bogus rebellion and ersatz torment. |
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| He came to the fore with a thundering and prescient prediction of the break-up of Britain, coinciding with the Silver Jubilee. |
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| This was an astonishingly prescient insight into what was actually to occur in the Russian Revolution. |
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| His study of America amply confirmed this prescient intuition and made him the first anthropologist of modern equality. |
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| Mystics explain this cryptic passage as an amazingly prescient script not only for the past but for the future as well. |
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| But as I read on, it became apparent that the novel was so prescient it became unnerving. |
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| The concierge was more prescient that the reformers, whom Du Camp likened to the sorcerer's apprentice. |
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| This reveals a prescient insight into the mindset which fuels Connery's anger. |
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| She has made a cinematographically beautiful film empty of Nabokov's ecstatic genius, his prescient psychology, and her own original talent. |
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| At odds of 16-1, and with White displaying splendid form throughout the first five days of action, it began to look like very prescient gambling. |
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| A beautiful and talented actress, Dorrie ends up in a psychiatric ward, a narrative which seems extraordinarily prescient. |
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| His fascination with popular culture and the ways it could be appropriated for artistic purposes seem prescient today. |
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| Although no-one has ever followed through on its promises, Radio Ethiopia still sounds astonishingly prescient. |
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| The neoglossalists' efforts may seem naive, but their belief in the evanescence of English could prove prescient. |
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| Lucky or prescient players would win fabulous prizes, and pure, unbiased, aggregate intelligence could be creamed off the top because markets always get it right in the end. |
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| De Lorean succeeded by projecting a glorious vision of the future which detracted policy makers' attention from their dry but prescient statistical analyses. |
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| Ferreting out who is prescient and who is crooked becomes more important than ever. |
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| It makes no mention at all of White's passionate and prescient warnings. |
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| It's a little bit scary being such a gifted, prescient individual. |
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| This proved to be a prescient warning in the case of his son John. |
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| He was even, by the way, prescient about the meltdown of the Soviet Union. |
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| He proved prescient in his argument that efforts to help the Third World by avalanches of aid would only ruin local markets and nourish corruption. |
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| That prediction looks even more prescient since the surge in oil prices. |
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| If you've got some last minute prognostications or thoughts on the subject, now is the time to spit them out so you can appear to be astute and prescient later on. |
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| The Player, Robert Altmans prescient 1992 poison-pen letter to the movie studios, accomplished this, as did The Larry Sanders Show. |
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| But whether the awardee was Susan Marshall, Savion Glover or Karen Finley, all honored early in their careers, the awards have been prescient. |
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| It was a hauntingly prescient look at the senselessness of war, released just as the country was learning how senseless it could be. |
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| Generation X proved to be highly prescient and you have written frequently about the future. |
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| Therefore, the spectre of animal rights is very much a prescient one which should concern all of us in this bill. |
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| Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague for his prescient remarks and for his support for dealing with guns in a responsible manner. |
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| Well, if somebody in our tendency was that prescient, he or she should be giving this report, not me. |
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| Just a week ahead of the major troubles, the Fed directors were quite prescient. |
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| Mr. Speaker, my colleague's question on this extremely important issue is a very prescient one. |
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| We should all be grateful to the Prime Ministers of Spain and Turkey for being prescient in anticipating a vital issue in today's world. |
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| On the War Measures Act, Tommy Douglas was prescient and quite right on that point. |
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| This is a particularly prescient issue in the new member states of the EU and eastern and central Europe, more generally. |
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| Its prescient move to develop the Android operating system is reaping benefits, as it dominates the smartphone market. |
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| In the process, he has been hailed as a prescient genius and dismissed as a rabid extremist, but almost always recognised as a novelist of great power and originality. |
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| The video was filmed before the massive violence that convulsed Kiev this week, but its message is eerily prescient. |
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| This argument seeks to make conservatism, not retrograde but prescient. |
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| An almost prescient autofocus instantly zeroes in on your quarry, then continuously adjusts to stay locked on to that charging moose until you nail the shot. |
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| What is striking about the novel when read today, however, is its prescient embrace of technology. |
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| If she runs in 2016, her prescient advocacy for early-childhood education might be peaking at just the right time. |
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| Two weeks ago, Munich RE, the German reinsurance giant, released a prescient report. |
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| Much of the interest centers on two prescient suggestions made by the two scientists in their 1977 paper on Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial worm that causes onchocerciasis. |
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| Clarke's book was pure science fiction, but almost 30 years later his predictions have proved prescient. |
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| You are very certain, and perhaps prescient, about no donors or carriers being willing. |
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| The Triumph of Gargoylism, 1957, looks strikingly prescient with respect to Carroll Dunham's work. |
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| But at least one prescient Canadian had seen the danger signs. |
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| Adam Smith, in the Theory of Moral Sentiments, is prescient in his descriptiveness in understanding human psychology. |
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| He recounted the latest news – about his business, his brothers, his dad's heart attack – and finished with a flourish that, in retrospect, seems haunting and prescient. |
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| May I say at the outset that a long time ago, Parliament was, in fact, very prescient about this issue. There was a bill that passed second reading in Parliament to ban cigarettes. |
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| His prescient use of uranium as a plot device led to Hitchcock's being briefly under FBI surveillance. |
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| It was the prescient Betty who plucked the young Curtis straight off the streets of Miami and the campus of Miami University as her new bassist back in 1979, thus jump-starting the bassist's big league jazz career. |
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| At the same time, while many governments are struggling with debt levels inherited from the crisis, the more prescient corporations are looking to the future in their post-crisis growth strategies. |
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| I recall that this prescient person, this visionary, General George Marshall, decided to convince the United States with the Marshall plan, which was then put into place. |
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| In hindsight, the trends you and your colleagues identified a decade ago-and the associated issues and problems you believed required close attention-were indeed both prescient and proper. |
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| This means the Aboriginal Health Committee was prescient in its deliberations, but it also means we may not have made the progress in the past five years that we had envisioned. |
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| The decision not to proceed at the Cainsville site proved prescient, as only a few months later a long and bitter occupation of a residential development in Caledonia was commenced by the Six Nations First Nation. |
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| If the plot was indeed conceived seven years ago, as Mr. Bai asserted, it seems prescient, both in its depiction of a united North and South Korea and in its convolutedness. |
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| You were in Network, too, which in hindsight was such a prescient film. |
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| Now its touchy-feely approach looks prescient. |
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| His multifold career — as experimental film and video maker, composer, musician and sound artist — still looks radical and prescient a half-century after it began. |
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| The Mark I showed no influence from the Analytical Engine and lacked the Analytical Engine's most prescient architectural feature, conditional branching. |
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