Word: presciently
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...best indicator that the themes of “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place!” really are universal. Almost in spite of sometimes heavy-handed direction and overly emphatic dialogue, “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place!” remained a prescient reminder of how quickly injured honor can devolve into violent conflict. Hector’s reappraisal of his own impressions and assumptions about war was a persuasive cry for contemplation well after the house lights came back...
Hecht’s facility for breakdowns is part of what makes the Nixon administration scenes the strongest. While this section also suffers from trite politicizing—Myra’s declaration that one day her slogans will seem naïve isn’t really prescient if it was written decades later—the play, and Steinemann’s directing, is much more focused on the characters, and the show is stronger for it. Myrna reveals a bit of a psychotically vicious streak that makes her far more entertaining, while Myra robs a bank...
...suspected purse-snatcher in Bez Valley, shouting that it was men like him "who had killed Lucky Dube." On Monday, police announced they had arrested five people in connection with Dube's murder, and the country's newspapers pointed out the irony in his tragic death. In his eerily prescient 2001 song "Crime and Corruption," Dube demanded that the post-apartheid government protect its people from the surging crime wave...
...prescient comment, I'd later find...
...though, has a big head start on the rest of the industry, thanks largely to Singh. The amiable tycoon, known by his initials K.P., was dressed during a recent interview in a white suit with a polka-dot pocket square. He recalled how prescient strategy--and a stroke of luck--turned DLF into a property powerhouse. Founded by Singh's father-in-law Chaudhury Raghuvendra Singh, DLF (originally Delhi Land & Finance) got started in 1946, a year before India won its freedom from Britain. Raghuvendra bet that hundreds of thousands of refugees who were expected to settle in India...