premonitory

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As premonitory cinema goes, “Brazil” is perhaps matched only by Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 “Network.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

I wondered, too, about a similar narrative distortion that aims to make Dean’s sense of an oncoming pandemic seem premonitory.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2021

Ramis' premonitory notion is a fairly succinct summary of what most people remember about the performer – that he was aggressively funny, a ball of jokester chaos with musical chops that augmented his comedic identity.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2020

But it is Moby-Dick’s premonitory brilliance that continues to make it relevant.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2019

He crossed a yellow plain where the echo repeated one's thoughts and where anxiety brought on premonitory mirages.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez