Word: oracularly
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...present age, Ananias may enjoy a religious resurrection more premature than that premised nineteen centuries ago. For the oracular omniscience from Brooklyn has placed a syndicated wreath on the grave of the supreme liar of history. The dramatic example which clinches the justification of lying further serves to revivify the long-dead Ananias. Were a man chasing a woman with intent to kill and the woman slipped down a side street unobserved. Dr. Caedmon asserts that he would feel no scruples in misdirecting her pursuer...
...Beware of the professional character analyst and the 'applied psychologist,'" he warned in closing. "Interest in character analysis is universal, but unfortunately this interest is not as discriminating as it should be. The public flocks to hear the oracular Hindu and his kind, but these advertising experts usually contribute little or nothing to the capacity of their patrons for understanding people. As a matter of fact, the scientific analysis of personality and character has just begun, and any attempt to commercialize the slight knowledge we have runs the danger of being premature and harmful...
...exact equivalent of crimson. Delightful predictions have been made by the Boston Herald to the effect that the Harvard Crimson will now be titled the Daily Sodium Salt of the Daily Azo-8, the abbreviated terms being necessitated by the limitations of proof reading. The originality of these oracular murmuring is unimpeachable; their pertinence unexcelled. Without doubt the prophecies will stimulate profound and wide-spread reflection...
...Modernists do not ordinarily express themselves in the oracular or in the oratorical manner of capital letters...
There is Mrs. Bowater, "a woman who disapproved of most things, for excellent, if nebulous, reasons; and her silences were due not to the fact that she had nothing to say, but too much". Her words are Oracular. There is a Greek dignity in her austere tragic devotion to Miss M., to her absent husband, and to her daughter Fannie...