soothsaying

In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.

He'd find a way to smooth over my unauthorized soothsaying before we brought this to trial.

The simplest explanation for all this soothsaying is that the media are cutting costs.

Carl even tries his hand at a little soothsaying:

Just how true was her soothsaying?

No sooner did Barbara Bush's husband get himself elected to America's highest office than the soothsaying began.

Strategic soothsaying.

A fashion designer makes his living predicting what people are going to be wearing, and for me it's a relief when someone else is doing a little soothsaying.

Some analysts believe that gas could hit an all-time high of $2 a gallon this summer, though forecasting oil prices is as much soothsaying as science.

The Fortune-Telling Book: The Encyclopedia of Divination and Soothsaying.

With artful soothsaying: the Market, it said, "is warming to the idea that strong economic growth may be a viable alternative to moderate growth with low interest rates."

More a gourd half-full of peas-rattle, rattle ... He's a great expert on Etruscan soothsaying, from lightning to livers.

And so, to celebrate the build-up of the build-up of WillKat, I want to indulge in a bit of musical soothsaying.

Gargoyle Statue - unknown effect; was on a shelf near Sallah the Soothsaying Sultan, fell from a high shelf just as Claudia passed under it.

Sallah the Soothsaying Sultan Fortune-Telling Booth - Not actually a fortune teller but a hypnotist who causes feelings of extreme dread in people.

SOOTHSAYING HAS A long and checkered history, and the year-end predictions of economic soothsayers generally fare no better than the rest.

Claudia is then told by an artifact, Sallah the Soothsaying Sultan Fortune-Telling Booth, that "Death comes for you this night", and promptly a statue nearly falls on her head.

You would make a good long-distance runner, but ..." I motioned for Suze to hit the fast-forward button; it seemed like a typical soothsaying, although I'd review it in depth later, if need be.

Very little of it has been duplicated in the Western Hemisphere, which counts against it, nevertheless a lot of odd stuff in India has been reported by competent, cool- minded observers- telepathy, accurate soothsaying, clairvoyance, fire walking, and so forth."

I used to rely on the early March arrivals of the first robins for such soothsaying, but then learned that considerable numbers of them annually decline the migration gambit, skulk all winter in swamps and emerge from time to time on balmy late winter days to confuse anticipatory anglers.