Word: presciently
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...Many prescient Europeans, including Churchill, thought that Europe might be dead. The age in which the physical resources of a single nation were enough to ensure its sovereignty had ended. No European state, and perhaps no combination of European states, was powerful enough to with-stand the domination of the two multinational empires whose boundaries now met in the geographical center of the old continent...
...just the fact of what Charles de Gaulle had already done tormented his allies: it was what he might yet do. And they searched his prescient pronouncements from the past (see box) for clues...
...Another prescient insight was Clifford's careful questioning of exactness of measurement...
Founded in 1911 as a forum for public affairs, literature and the arts, the Review reached high right from its birth. Its first issue reprinted a remarkably prescient article. "War,'' originally written in 1903 by Dr. William Graham Sumner, Yale professor of political and social science and author of 15 books. "There is only one thing rationally to be expected," wrote Sumner, "and that is a frightful effusion of blood in revolution and war during the century now opening.'' In 1914 the Review published a trenchant appraisal of "The Powers of the President...
...degrees), his esthetic judgments are liberally laced with moralizing. Though Manhattan-raised, Mumford has a gardener's love of greenery, likes to weed in the vegetable patch between paragraphs. And the less a city becomes like a village, the more it rouses Mumford's wrath. In a prescient 1922 essay, The City, he warned: "The movies, the White Ways and the Coney Islands, which almost every American city boasts in some form or other, are means of giving jaded and throttled people the sensations of living without the direct experience of life-a sort of spiritual masturbation...