| 41. | The Pythia may have chewed oleander leaves and inhaled their smoke prior to her oracular pronouncements and sometimes dying from the toxicity.
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| 42. | Its tone is somewhat different from Green's other books, being a curious combination of the oracular and the humorous.
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| 43. | In the end, Socrates recognized oracular irony : he was indeed wiser than others precisely because he understood that he lacked wisdom.
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| 44. | At age 75, Wright has the wavy white hair, deepset eyes and bristly eyebrows to lend oracular weight to his pronouncements.
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| 45. | The voice, " a truly oracular folk-pop instrument, " a reviewer once wrote, is still vibrant.
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| 46. | He believes that they used caves as a Dionysian oracular temple, based upon Dashwood s reading of the relevant chapters of Rabelais.
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| 47. | He states with certainty that it antedated the Ionic immigration by many years, being older even than the oracular shrine at Dodona.
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| 48. | In 1942, the French could no longer withstand the growing popular reactions generated by S?'s oracular pronouncements and political instructions.
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| 49. | De Botton also displays an irritating tendency in this book to deliver common-sense statements with an oracular and self-congratulatory air.
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| 50. | However the Indo-European component of Apollo does not explain his strong relation with omens, exorcisms, and with the oracular cult.
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