Word: foretold
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...final designs, scaled up on large pieces of paper, were transferred onto the wet plaster by dusting charcoal through the pinpricked outlines, or by cutting along them. The ceiling's highly complex scheme includes the creation of the world, the fall of man, a parade of figures who foretold the coming of Christ, and many purely decorative nude men, known as ignudi. Michelangelo studied the anatomy of the male torso intensively. It's no secret that he was attracted to men, but he also used rippling muscles and contorted postures to express emotion, drama, suffering and even deep religious feeling...
...been decades since it made sense to call Kevin Phillips a Republican strategist. The G.O.P. he used to strategize for, the one whose electoral triumph he foretold in his 1969 book, The Emerging Republican Majority, got away from him a long time ago. The party it developed into, the one in which evangelical Christians carry lots of clout and budget balancers just about none, is not for him. With best sellers like Wealth and Democracy, about the widening split between rich and poor, and American Dynasty, which treated the Bush clan as well-connected mediocrities, he shifted to the role...
...Throw out the script. The Boston team that seemed left for dead in July rallied in October to write a whole new heroic tale. And Sox fans everywhere can safely bid farewell to a painful history that had come to be known as a truth foretold. After lashing the Yankees in four straight games, the Red Sox went on to slaughter the Cardinals in a four game sweep. Boston?s height of glory came when they vanquished their archrival at Yankee Stadium on October 20. The Cardinals were an after dinner mint of sorts - and even the Sox didn...
...numbers alone foretold it. Heading into Saturday’s game, Dawson was averaging 134 rushing yards per game and 151.4 all-purpose yards per game, not to mention averaging 2.2 touchdowns per game and leading all of Division I-AA in scoring with 14.4 points per game...
...alas, those who foretold an ECAC in which those carmine cousins nosed one another for the title each year—the same way Michigan and Michigan State have engaged in a two-way struggle for CCHA hegemony for most of the last two decades—are now sitting down to a happy helping of crow...