prophesy

An apparent similarity between two unrelated events, a parchment-paper test, makes us partial to seemingly endless, overconfident prophesies of disaster.

When she was little, a neighbor heard her singing along to the radio and prophesied to Carol’s mother: “Someday she’ll be famous.”

But he was quickly disabused of any hope that his prophesies of financial doom would sway opponents.

According to WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, Davis frequently had to stop and correct the behavior of Lewis, who at one point prophesied the end of the world.

When we set out to make this film, No Choice, we hoped to imagine a plausible future — not to prophesy our present reality.