11 example sentences using oracular.
Oracular used in a sentence
Oracular in a sentence as an adjective
I wonder if any smart people have ever tried to see how long they can get away with being meaninglessly oracular.
Might we say this oracular feat is pure will?Note that the artist in this instance does not make the work for anything other than itself.
There would be twenty oracular messages, each beginning with a letter of the alphabet that corresponded to one side of the dice.
Absent relevant experience, these analyses may seem oracular, but they're not.
He isn't saying "There exist exactly 20 people out of 60k who should not go to college and I have oracular ability for identifying them.
But the soul is still oracular; amid the market's din,List the ominous stern whisper from the Delphic cave within,—"They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin."
We're not even good self-assessors of our own oracular capabilities because we not only write buggy code, but we're often surprised by the bugs in the code we write.
For example, if your mutator uses 90% of the CPU with an oracular memory manager, then a 100% GC overhead means 10% total application overhead.
Einstein responded by living a very comfortable life in Princeton and dedicating himself to research that he loved, taking a few moments for an occasional oracular statement.
The relativization barrier, I can imagine, is handled by showing that abstract state machines with oracular advice can turn seemingly-insignificant choices into significant choices, so that the proof doesn't relativize.
Does the president bear any responsibility whatsoever for his own words, or should we treat them as oracular emanations of the divine, to be explored for meaning like the entrails of a sacrificial beast or the residues at the bottom of a coffee cup?
Oracular definitions
of or relating to an oracle; "able by oracular means to expose a witch"
obscurely prophetic; "Delphic pronouncements"; "an oracular message"
See also: Delphic
resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile"
See also: enigmatic