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sibylline

[sib-uh-leen, -lahyn, -lin] / ˈsɪb əˌlin, -ˌlaɪn, -lɪn /


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Also because I was influenced by a late-blooming acquaintance with Wagner operas, discovering that their aesthetic, which I had assumed to be bombastic, really relies on sibylline continuities.

From The New Yorker Jul. 3, 2016

Mr. Jeremiah also brought impressive power and intensity to Moto Osada’s sibylline “Four Nights of Dream,” the only opera with a male protagonist.

From New York Times Nov. 11, 2012

In San Francisco as an apostle of Culture in behalf of the Container Corporation of America, Communications Prophet Marshall McLuhan, 55, whose sibylline pronouncements have so often been models of noncommunication, explained the McLuhan phenomenon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some political soothsayers took this sibylline pronouncement as a hint that Truman did not intend to run again.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was something mysterious about the origin of the sibylline books.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist




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