Delphic

Example Sentences

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The judge’s forlorn prediction is a safe one given the Supreme Court’s Delphic opinion and the Justice Department’s subsequent superseding indictment in the case.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 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

Its king, Oedipus, desperate to understand why the gods have called such a plague down upon his realm, sends an emissary to the famed Delphic Oracle to find out.

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