sibylline

Example Sentences

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It is as old as the sibylline books.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2016

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The preface, beautiful but sibylline, is an appeal to all men to worship and exalt Imagination, which in ancient times in the Christ-form, says Blake, “walked upon England’s mountains green.”

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene