| 单词 | omniscient |
| 例句 | In short, the historical record itself, and not just our own omniscient imaginations, provides the requisite evidence from which we can reconstruct the response to the proslavery argument. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I accepted the idea that an omniscient God had cast me in his own image and that he watched over me and guided me from one place to the next. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He wanted to believe that someone omniscient—an all-knowing God—was keeping score of what happened on earth, and just maybe it was time for things to change. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z An omniscient voice is already calling out each of our names as we enter the arena, the voice deep and reverberating, and as it does, each name rotates in flames in the arena’s center. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A flash of red light engulfs the scene, and the omniscient voice echoes all around us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mary Anne kicked him with her bare foot and shot him the finger, making sure that the sign was too low to be intercepted by her father’s omniscient eyes scanning the rearview mirror. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A girl needed to preserve some mystery, even from her omniscient Dadi. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Tolstoy, of course, as an omniscient narrator, also provides a running commentary, establishing what it was that the combatants were all, willy-nilly, conspiring to bring about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It’s just...a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Had he imagined that the library had omniscient fairies on staff to record everything that happened in the world, no matter how secret, or how far away? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Nevertheless he was not omnipotent or omniscient, either. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Changeling,” it should be noted, is a particular kind of fairy tale: “the old kind,” in the words of the omniscient narrator, “when such stories were meant for adults, not kids.” This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’ 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z For most of the book the writers take an omniscient Woodwardian tone, staying careful and balanced and not cluttering up every sentence with newspaper-style sourcing. ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ Takes a Hard Look at the Supreme Court Justice and His Accusers 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z "Desperate Housewives" shocks with just one, that of the omniscient narrator who dies by suicide without warning. From clear scripts to big-name casting, the Jan. 6 hearings meet the standards of must-see TV 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The result is a traditional novel, broad-shouldered, omniscient, almost Balzac-ian, but with terrorism part of a plot centered satirically around an all-too-plausible Brussels idea. Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z At the film’s beginning and its end, an omniscient narrator with the sensible voice of Emma Thompson explains that the root of the problem is that we’re all human. Adam Sandler in Jason Reitman’s ‘Men, Women & Children’ 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z He’s this omniscient character yet he’s also surprised all the time; he’s got all his OMG moments. “Jane the Virgin”’s narrator explains his unique, unseen role: “He’s kind of Jane’s spirit animal” 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Instead of using the first-person voice, as in “The Age of Miracles,” Walker works on a broader canvas here, with a roving, third-person omniscient narrator that creates a symphonic voice. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Initially, she is the nameless, omniscient narrator who merely observes; then she introduces her "friend" Carrie to whom various adventures happen; eventually, Carrie's life takes over the columns. Hadley Freeman: rereading Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell 2013-04-19T11:01:01Z A closely detailed model of the city of Carthage is suspended over some of the action like an omniscient egg or a winking space station. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z Deploying, in different books, the unreliable narrator, the stream-of-consciousness narrator, the omniscient narrator and multiple narrators, Mr. Doctorow was one of contemporary fiction’s most restless experimenters. E.L. Doctorow, Author of Historical Fiction, Dies at 84 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z One aspect he does share with his predecessor: He’s nowhere near omniscient, though he’d like people to think he is. Review: Toto, You’re Not a Basket-Size Terrier Anymore 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z In these books, James functions as an omniscient designer-director and as an intimate portraitist, blocking out complex compositions with epic precision and pushing figures forward for expressively pitiless close-ups. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Each episode opens with the guttural voice of an omniscient narrator imparting police wisdom to viewers. ?Southland? With Michael Cudlitz and Regina King on TNT 2012-03-16T16:10:35Z Through an omniscient point of view, Gundar-Goshen handles her characters’ interior lives gracefully, especially in a section about an octogenarian impersonating her dead friend as she concocts Holocaust testimonials for live audiences. What Happens When Girl Power Goes Wrong? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In the absence of narrative tension, then, we are left with this thresh of rival perspectives, all generously delivered in the same third-person omniscient. In Julia Glass’s new novel, a famous children’s author leaves a mess in his wake 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Halfway through my first attempt at a meditation, as an orange scribble slowly rotates on the screen, the silence is broken by an omniscient voice: “Low battery. Recharge your headset.” Headspace Guide to Meditation: can Netflix deliver enlightenment in 20 minutes? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z What does antebellum plantation life have to do with North Korea, where three generations of rulers — grandfather, father and now the young son, Kim Jong Un — have been worshipped as omniscient? Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z But perhaps Schulman is censoring Jake's thoughts, as an omniscient authorial viewpoint also sometimes ominously intrudes, able to see into the future: "This will be the last time he hears his own laughter in weeks." This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman - review 2012-02-10T22:55:01Z His novel is full of character and incident, but told by an omniscient narrator according to rules almost as strict as the classical unities . Book reviews roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:13Z In a time when so much is left to chaos and shrugs and incompetence, the show offers the comforting illusion that some omniscient force is in control of what happens. Perspective | ‘This Is Us’ finally delivers some of Beth’s backstory — and more proof of a master plan 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z It made you feel omniscient, like God’s emissary on an inspection tour. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Felix writes about himself in the third person, too, noting in his final pages that “as always, the omniscient narrator had a very wobbly grasp of what was happening” —a contradiction and a challenge, both. Forget-me-not 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Stephen Critchlow also brings a nice sense of mischief to the role of Silvia's benevolently omniscient dad. The Game of Love and Chance ? review 2011-04-08T17:55:21Z His father closed it by ruling that God did offer people a genuine freedom of choice but, being omniscient, always knew what they would choose. Sir Denis Forman obituary 2013-02-25T13:46:32Z Occasionally, Bud’s memoir is replaced for several chapters with an omniscient narrative that lurches back to his parents’ early marriage and Bud’s childhood. In Molly Gloss’s “Falling From Horses,” a cowboy goes to Hollywood to play one “The happenstance of me being born into this wealth doesn’t mean I’m somehow omniscient about how it should be used,” she said. The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z They could know anything they wanted about characters, they could tell you anything, they could go in and out of their heads at will, they could be omniscient. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: John Lanchester on 'Capital' 2012-06-13T16:28:11Z In “The Cathedral of Time,” Cook has faith that an omniscient being is making demands of us, but the power of choice, the “prayer for salvation,” as Glynn puts it, is in our hands. An Overlooked Novelist’s Unfinished Epic About the Lives of Forgotten Men 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z A kind of omniscient algorithm described at one point as “the closest thing mankind has to perfect intelligence,” the Heart has access to “trillions of data points” that effectively allow it to predict the future. ‘Heart of Stone’ Review: Mission Improbable 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Neither can I. And indeed, Christie maintained her omniscient aloofness throughout Poirot’s swan song, “Curtain,” which came out a few months before her death in 1976. Review | Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel ‘Riccardino’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z But the reviewer suggested that Mr. Bell may have been guilty of overkill in portraying his hero as omniscient. Ted Bell, Creative Adman Turned Author of Thrillers, Dies at 76 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z I want the audience to feel it’s all there for a reason, especially for a film that is very objective, and where the style has an omniscient quality to it. The making of a fascist: “You get into a sticky area if you try to psychoanalyze a fictional future despot” 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z There’s very little about the making of the documentary itself in “Spettacolo,” which assumes the point of view of the unobtrusive, not-quite omniscient witness. Review: In ‘Spettacolo,’ a Tuscan Town Where All the World’s a Stage 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The team found in controlled experiments, a child as young as age six will rate “God” as named by her faith as more omniscient than “God” as named by another geographically remote unfamiliar faith. How to talk to kids about religion: Spiritual multiculturalism is absolutely essential 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z We’ve got a fairy-tale-style omniscient narrator who notes the exact years, months and days since certain events; oddball aunts who raised a bookish niece; and police investigations that are more whimsical than gory. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z As a reader, I felt like a kind of omniscient presence watching all of you guys. “No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z So expansive and intimate is her knowledge of Toby’s experience — his conversations, his actions, even his thoughts — that it’s easy to imagine we’re hearing the voice of an omniscient narrator. Review | ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ — and so is modern marriage 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z This time the Mad Hatter was an omniscient narrator of the song’s music-biz blues. Tom Petty, Classic Rocker? Sure. And Weird Video Star, Too. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z “It was an impossible task,” the omniscient amnesiac narrator muses, “but the gesture touched me somehow.” Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The exposition above is delivered not by an omniscient narrator but as gossip. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 5: Our Mutual Friend 2012-02-01T19:54:28Z He believed that an omniscient being watches over us, that when we died we would be together again in an otherworldly place, and that praying for people was an important part of caring for them. Modern Love: An Agnostic’s Guide to Marriage 2012-08-30T17:01:27Z McGregor’s omniscient narrator hovers above the village watching all and relating every development in a uniformly flat, democratizing tone. What happens to a tranquil British town when a 13-year-old girl goes missing 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z India is captured here, through an almost omniscient lense, captured in all its piquant, fiery glory. My top five books that make you want to travel 2013-04-24T08:00:00Z It was the point at which Virginia Woolf took on the Joycean revolution of the novel and tried to tell a story from the perspective of consciousness, rather than the omniscient narrative. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z That makes him extraordinary, not unique and nowhere near omniscient, let alone holy. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Here, he applies his sweeping, omniscient perspective to Church followers and Vatican grounds, making even Pope Francis seem like a small actor in the Church’s broader social dramas. Massimo Vitali at the Vatican 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Sheila, Father Arthur's younger sister, is the story's omniscient narrator, reporting to the reader the reactions of those affected. 'Faith': A molestation charge tears a family apart 2011-05-11T21:01:05Z The omniscient narrator of Ackerman’s slim third novel is already dead, a Marine who did not make it back from Iraq. New in Paperback: Rebecca Traister’s ‘Good and Mad’ and Tina Turner’s ‘My Love Story’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Through sketches written from more than a dozen perspectives, from an omniscient third person to the family members themselves to tangential figures — an antagonistic neighbor, a chatty doctor — we piece together a kind of narrative. Garth Risk Hallberg’s Mix-and-Match Story of Suburban Ennui 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Suddenly, with the lightly colloquial “cut out for her,” we are in the mind not of an omniscient narrator but of a character — Clarissa Dalloway, as the succeeding lines make clear. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z It was important that the camera espouses different points of view rather than in fiction when it is an omniscient camera with a God’s eye view that sees everything in an objective way. "Anatomy of a Fall" inverses the formulaic whodunit and shows the "limitations of a courtroom" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z That third-person omniscient narrator dramatizes Fitzgerald’s characteristic insider-outsider stance and allows readers access to his imagined thoughts without overstepping the bounds of the plausible. Book review: ‘West of Sunset,’ a novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald by Stewart O’Nan 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The chapters feature an omniscient narrator, but focus largely on the perspectives of Mussolini and his collaborators. A New Book About Mussolini Is Provoking a Debate Over His Legacy 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The book begins with an omniscient point of view — a map of the U.S. 'Another Kind of Hurricane,' 'Drowned City' take on Katrina 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps it was her keener-than-usual awareness of how stuff fits into your life, or her previous experiences dealing with less-than-communicative omniscient beings. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z I started getting into the idea of the omniscient voice, the people who announce and tell you what to buy or how you should think about things, they help form your opinions. Actress Lake Bell finds her directorial voice "In A World" 2013-01-23T13:06:30Z It's as if Miller felt obliged to create a character to embody that most taken for granted of all storytelling techniques: the third-person omniscient narrator. Jacob's Folly by Rebecca Miller – review 2013-07-25T09:00:00Z Luke's been spooked, into thinking he's omniscient about the feelings of "ultra liberals and progressives". Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Sometimes the novel's voice is that of an omniscient narrator. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z Like many of Morrison’s later novels, “The Bluest Eye” is told from a variety of perspectives, including an omniscient third-person narrator. Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z But the key to this novel is that while the narration sometimes feels omniscient, the story is refracted through one particular lens: Dara’s. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z This omniscient narrative has a light, deliciously biting tone that questions gender mores and the rigid class structure even as the novel dances to a delightful conclusion at the requisite ball. A Jane Austen-esque novel for teens and other best books for young readers 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z There are problems, too, with a narrative style which tries to be omniscient but which feels often heavy-handed and self-referential. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z He was a master of whimsy, of the omniscient and poetic observation. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Now he’s mostly a “Masterpiece Theater”-like omniscient sage in a trim suit. Television Review: R. Kelly’s ‘Trapped in the Closet’ on IFC 2012-11-22T22:48:45Z Interchangeable Euro baddies lurk in the shadows, seemingly omniscient and omnipresent, waiting to strike. Capsule reviews: 'I Am Number Four,' 'Unknown' 2011-02-17T19:55:16Z Such an economical approach also permeates the lyrics, which resemble running narrations from omniscient protagonists. "Talking Heads: 77," released 40 years ago tomorrow 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “Bull” is prototypical network prime-time chum: Each self-contained episode revolves around a single legal case; the protagonist is an omniscient, infallible, borderline unethical white man. Beyond ‘Hamilton,’ for Better and for Worse 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z An essential part of the book’s success is the voice of its omniscient narrator, and the filmmakers don’t have a way to replace that beyond putting Mr. Faber’s words into Sugar’s mouth in voice-over. Television Review: ‘The Crimson Petal and the White,’ Encore Mini-Series 2012-09-10T02:29:04Z The notion of the omniscient and invisible narrator is very close to the monotheistic and particularly the Judeo-Christian idea of God. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z The problem with accepting God as sex guru comes from His character and the alleged nature of His omniscient, omnipresent surveillance of us, which doesn’t exactly accord with any concept of healthy sexual expression. Oh God! The lord’s my sex guru: Pious perverts, quasi-incestuous misogyny and the twisted world of religious sexual repression 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Any illusion of an omniscient truth-telling eye at work is absent. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Berne manages a narrative that is two-pronged: She is the true observer, the omniscient eyes and ears of the book. ‘The Dogs of Littlefield’ review: Who’s poisoning the pets in this idyllic town? 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z “Cold Water” accomplishes a feat that’s often tried but seldom attained: it’s completely intense and completely, omnisciently cool. ArtsBeat: A Filmmaker’s Rebellious Teenagers, Take 1 2013-04-26T17:30:22Z RZA serves as something of an omniscient narrator, even for the parts where he’s at odds with other members. Review: A Wu-Tang Clan Documentary Captures the Group’s Wild Self-Invention 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z They should know that, in the age of an omniscient NSA and a transparent Cloud, nothing is private. Review: Men, Women & Children Shows How Sexting Is Ruining America 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The days of the omniscient talking head are rapidly running out, and news today has to reflect that. HLN’s play for millennials: Social media and viral videos 2014-02-11T16:20:00Z And then throw in the voice of an omniscient narrator, who annotates the action in the manner of an on-the-spot news reporter, filling in biographical details of the lives of the artists. ‘Cineastas’ and ‘O Jardim’ at Under the Radar 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z It was narrated by the actress Brie Larson, embodying the role of an omniscient mushroom. The Mushrooms Will Survive Us 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Chang-rae Lee's fourth novel differs from the previous three in being told from the point of view of an omniscient – or, at any rate, well-informed – third-person narrator and being concerned with origins rather than destinations. The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Was it not difficult to maintain a balance between "not wanting to be omniscient", yet also wanting "to fill in the blanks" left by other works of fiction? The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-12T21:55:14Z The artificial intelligence of “2001” is embodied in HAL, the omniscient computational presence, the brain of the Discovery One spaceship — and perhaps the film’s most famous character. “2001: A Space Odyssey” still has insight on future decades later 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Whether the practitioner is selling sex or omniscient empathy, it suggests, the goal is to make as much money as possible. | ?Special Treatment?: Isabelle Huppert in ?Special Treatment? - Review 2011-08-25T23:05:36Z Not only is Trump authoritarian and omnipotent, though, he also presents himself as omniscient, or all-knowing. Donald Trump thinks he’s a god. Even worse, his supporters agree 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z I’m sorry that we, as a literary culture, seem to be losing faith in the omniscient narrator. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z We flit, omniscient, through this unlikely collection of minds as the slow trickle of news turns bleak. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Television finds great purpose when it becomes the omniscient means with which to snoop, long-term, on the most fascinating couples we can imagine. Want a stronger, more intense marriage? Then you should watch ‘The Americans.’ 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z He was an old-fashioned, omniscient author, a storyteller. William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z It also begins with the mention of a funeral and a mysterious omniscient narrator that refers to itself as “we.” Review | ‘A Good Neighborhood’ delves into the thorny territory of race, class and prejudice 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “The offerings are both substantial, healthy snacks and stuff that is horrible for you but so very, very much appreciated,” our omniscient narrator shares. Nice Guy Meets Iron Man in the First Novel by Tom Hanks 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z And, like a Brontë sister in a box at the opera, Perry observes the drama from an omniscient perch, examining her characters as if through a lorgnette. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z A wife who is bored, promiscuous and up-to-date, tied to a husband who is omniscient, chaste and antique: there's a marriage made in hell. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z The voice of Slimani’s omniscient third-person narrator is consistently chill and precise; her plot spares neither her characters’ fates nor her readers’ sensibilities. Review | Worried about your nanny? Here’s a novel in which your worst nightmare is realized. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z I didn’t want to write a 19th-century novel with an omniscient narrator and a lot of explicit moralizing. ArtsBeat: Slippery Nate: Adelle Waldman Talks About ‘The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.’ 2013-07-17T17:05:29Z Robinson moves between first and third-person narration, with several sections given over to an omniscient urban historian narrator known as "the city" or "that city smartass." Writers imagined drowned worlds for centuries — what they tell us about the future 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Palmas' book is baggy, and its chatty, omniscient narrator is a little too prone to digression. 'The Map of Time': Heartbroken English aristocrat time-travels to prevent a murder 2011-06-22T19:02:04Z An omniscient narrator speaks for the entire team, so the book is delivered by a collective and confusing “We.” Flashback to the ’80s 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The novel is told in the omniscient third person, which allows Bachelder to reveal to his reader the thoughts his characters dare not voice. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Just look at us floating around in the heaven and hell of cyberspace: feeling omniscient with our powerful search engines, gathering “followers.” Becoming ‘Self-Made’ Stars in a Secular Age 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Walker’s omniscient narrator follows several sets of people weathering the crisis in Santa Lora, including Mei, who is the heart of the book. Review | Dreams are dangerous — and contagious — in Karen Thompson Walker’s apocalyptic thriller 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z What Mitchell has gained is a fine command of her sumptuous lower register — an androgynous, omniscient voice, like a wise, benevolent god. Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden, Glorious and in Control 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z No, I did work here … the omniscient God separated from the world by Plexiglass, Tidddly-iddl-ighty. Digested read: Umbrella by Will Self 2012-08-19T15:00:00Z With an omniscient narrator, “Heather, the Totality” also features very little dialogue — a surprising choice, perhaps, for someone who’s spent much of the last two decades writing lines for actors to deliver. Matthew Weiner takes a break from TV and plunges into fiction with 'Heather, the Totality' 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z It was a simmering, slow, omniscient type of grief. Make-A-Wish granted my brother $15,000. Why did it make me angry? 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Instead, it meant to skewer the tone of TV news, by turns omniscient and truckling, in the production of what the show called "genutainment." 'Four Lions' Review: Finding Comedy in Suicide Bombers 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z The novel is divided into two strands: the story of rich, haughty, reserved Lady Dedlock, told by an omniscient narrator, and Esther’s story, told in her own words. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z My suspicion is that what attracts us is more complex than belief; less straightforward than a simple desire for an omniscient guide through life. I don’t even believe in astrology, so why am I addicted to this horoscope app? | Stephanie Convery 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z There’s so many movies that show the CIA is omniscient and far more efficient than it really is. Valerie Plame: Most female spies in pop culture are gun-wielding eye candy 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Robbe-Grillet responds that his work is in fact far less objective than the godlike, omniscient narrator who presides over so many traditional novels. In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z Besides leaving her time for her hobby, convent life lets her avoid the reach of an omniscient A.I. that humanity has embraced as a benefactor and constant companion. ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: Algorithm and Blues 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Finally, she has become the omniscient narrator of her new reality. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Jack Klaff's Max disintegrates excellently from a figure of omniscient wisdom to a man racked by anxiety about his marriage and his moral responsibility for his patients' lives. Shrunk 2010-05-26T21:01:00Z The results were controversial: It was, in many ways, the ultimate postmodern museum experience, with no central narrative, no omniscient voice and no absolute appeals to the voice of science and history. ‘Nation to Nation’: Full of the intriguing, often maddening details of history Historians, he said, tend to default to a dry omniscient voice that hasn't changed since the 19th-century, despite the fact that historians no longer believe in that kind of omniscience. ArtsBeat: Historians Look Back, and Inward, at Annual Meeting 2013-01-04T23:52:38Z Are we, the presumably omniscient viewer, actually a character within the narrative, somehow having been co-opted into a conspiratorial role as an active, complicit, responsible agent? ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z How McEnroe winds up being the omniscient voice in a present-day story about a self-conscious, Indian American high school sophomore is not as odd as it might seem. Review | Mindy Kaling’s ‘Never Have I Ever’ is breezy, cheerful and not as good as it ought to be 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Consider the trailer and the omniscient, disembodied voice that introduces moviegoers to a fictional world. Trailer Voice-Over Work Scarce for Women 2012-01-28T06:15:44Z But as with other Spark novels, God seems to be lurking somewhere in this prophetic, eerily omniscient scenario. Nicholas Royle's top 10 writers on the telephone 2010-10-06T09:25:00Z I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. Shaun Tan: 'I'd like to be Bilbo Baggins' 2012-08-24T15:17:56Z At the same time, despite the dire circumstances, the omniscient narrator’s voice, buoyant yet sympathetic, propels things along. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The game is omniscient, so it knows what’s written on a menu next to Kayla’s laptop, and the choices it offers are largely no-win. ‘Choose or Die’ Review: Press Start. Or Not. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z It effectively assumes the omniscient voice of a silent narrator. ‘Yanagawa’ Review: Her Spell 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Bakewell’s approach is enticing and unusual: She is not an omniscient author acting as critic, biographer or tour guide. Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z But we don’t think in the simple past, and we don’t think by the agency of an omniscient narrator. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z At the very end of the book, the omniscient narrator suddenly turns to the reader and asks, in a final single-sentence paragraph, “How will you live?” The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Still, my students continue to fret about speaking too subjectively, of abandoning an omniscient critical voice in favor of something more vulnerable and imperfect. The Music Critic in the Age of the Insta-Release 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Often allowing first-person consciousness to erupt out of a controlled, omniscient third-person narrative voice, Morrison replicated the curious process through which reader and writer are inevitably and inextricably locked together in the production of meaning. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z That said, I think it's a beautiful piece of writing that sustains the idea that you don't need omniscient narrators, and you don't need all the conventional literary carpentry in order to write a novel. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z Otherwise, like me, you might find yourself marveling at her mastery of language but distracted by wondering how she landed on words like “agglutination” or phrases such as “omniscient homunculus.” Review | Jhumpa Lahiri translates another Italian gem into English: Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trick’ 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z “For most of the book the writers take an omniscient Woodwardian tone, staying careful and balanced and not cluttering up every sentence with newspaper-style sourcing,” Hanna Rosin writes in her review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z In this omniscient point-value version, there’s no benefit or harm to any kind of ethnicity, gender, age, whatever. Michael Schur on ‘The Good Place,’ Ted Danson and Kantian Ethics 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z It also felt intensely self-conscious, an awkward effort to encapsulate centuries of diverse subcultures for a popular audience without the old, omniscient voice of authority for guidance. Can a thorough, thoughtful museum speak to a new racist age? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z When he narrates his own story, however, he sounds very much like his siblings and the omniscient narrator. ‘The Children’s Crusade,’ by Ann Packer 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The 2002 Steven Spielberg film, starring Tom Cruise, was an ambivalent action thriller about omniscient law enforcement. Review: In ‘Minority Report,’ a Case of Precognitive Dissonance 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The real-time urgency of “Love” is undergirded by the present tense and made incandescent by Orstavik’s seemingly effortless omniscient perspective, sometimes switching between Jon’s mind and Vibeke’s from sentence to sentence. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Like Katharine Boo — who synthesized hours of research into a cinematic account of slum life in “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” — Flock writes about her subjects with omniscient authority. Marriage Can Take Many Forms in India 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The narrator is transparent, but omniscient, recording the tremors running beneath the happy exterior of these people’s lives. ‘Commonwealth’: Ann Patchett’s masterful novel of family and family secrets 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The doc is a cracker-barrel philosopher and occasional omniscient narrator in the folksy tradition of the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z So rather than labeling yourself as an atheist, it might help to think of yourself as someone with an affirmative belief system that doesn’t happen to include an unseen omniscient force. I’m a Proud Atheist. Why Shouldn’t I Tell My Religious In-Laws? 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Did you ever think of telling the story from one perspective only, or from an omniscient one? This Week in Fiction: Thomas Pierce 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s a generous song, an almost omniscient song. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In this series, Ms. Weems maintains the stance of omniscient, commenting observer, though this position was changing. Art Review: Carrie Mae Weems Charts the Black Experience in Photographs 2014-01-23T23:42:31Z Above it all is Kiefer Sutherland as an unnamed omniscient narrator who provides brusque exposition and commentary. 'Twelve': Rich kids, drugs and a downer of a melodrama 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z And the transient nature of her young life granted her an almost omniscient perspective. Brandi Carlile Has Always Seen Herself Clearly. Now It’s Our Turn. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z It has an old-fashioned omniscient narrator, and old-fashioned characters too: none of the bankers, footballers or immigrant cleaners who peopled a recent spate of state-of-the-nation novels set in London. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z Throughout the novel, the omniscient narrative voice maintains an ironic distance, slipping playfully among a fairly large cast of characters. Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z Through one strain of the novel runs the story of Jefferson’s life, from his lonely childhood to his famous death, told with the close, psychologically astute detail of an omniscient, third-person narrator. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The lawsuit seems like just another reminder to the world that Prince is omniscient and omnipresent. Prince Drops Suit Against Fans, Releases New Song Instead 2014-01-29T20:17:43Z Claire captures moments with a pocket-size digital camera; Massie sums up her days with short “in” and “out” lists because, the book’s omniscient narrator says, “diaries could fall into enemy hands.” How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Cast members are also the omniscient Greek chorus, which knows the show’s outcome even though the characters do not. A Doctor Checks Up on a New 'Allegro' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The “Jeopardy!” lectern grants every host an omniscient perspective, a preternatural awareness of the question to every answer. What Should the New ‘Jeopardy!’ Be? Guest Hosts Provide the Clues. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z In Israel, Bissell looks for the place where Judas committed suicide after betraying Jesus, wondering why an omniscient God would turn the apostle into a pawn who would endure endless scorn. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Eyes glaze over in thrall to the omniscient internet. Author event: Naomi Alderman at Third Place Books 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z The capabilities of the intelligence agencies in the United States or in Israel are very impressive, but they're not omniscient. Military expert on Gaza war: "When politicians act like children, children wind up dying" 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Abandoning a central hero allows the streets to speak for themselves, with the powerful voice of an omniscient boy of Dean Street serving as interlocutor and guide. Jonathan Lethem revises the Brooklyn of his youth — and his novels 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The first is that Trump is an omniscient, omnipotent, martyred savior of America; some believe him to be sent by God. "We call that kind of love a cult": Experts on the latest disturbing poll of Trump supporters 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z McBride writes in an appealing, omniscient voice, introducing a host of memorable characters. Two communities unite in ‘The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store’ 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z And because movies offer a visual immediacy and narrative immersion that books don’t, they are expected to be sweeping if not omniscient in their narrative scope, to reach for a comprehensive, even definitive vantage. ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an act of rigor, not erasure 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, members of Generation X — aged 39 to 57 years old — reported declining belief in God creating humans, founding the basis for trust and being the omniscient, omnipotent ruler of the universe. Millennials turn to faith amid pandemic, but are disconnected from biblical truth: Survey 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Translating DFW’s unique omniscient narrator’s voice — simultaneously colloquial and academic, which Schur describes as “writing in the way we think and talk” — presents a tougher challenge, but it’s probably not undoable. Some books are impossible to turn into movies. Why let that stop you? 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z The omniscient, singular authorial voice in literary fiction has become ever more antiquated — still valuable, but more like an exotic, bespoke retreat than literature’s mainland. How 2022 became the year of the fragmented-identity novel 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The novel’s omniscient narrator tells us that, early on, the hardhearted Nellie “supposed she should come to terms with the concept of ‘fun.’ Review | For fun-seekers, Kate Atkinson’s new novel is just the thing 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z The statement contradicts traditional understandings of an omniscient God who isn’t surprised by what happens in history. Scripture engagement, in-person church key to solving evangelicals’ belief crisis, experts say 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z If God is able to stop the suffering and would want to but does not know about it, then God is not omniscient. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A character narrator is a part of the story, whereas an omniscient narrator tells a story about others. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z When it comes to those of my own invention, I am omniscient. Perspective | ‘The Boys’ author Katie Hafner on her path from journalist to novelist 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Though a few of his switches from omniscient and limited third-person perspective caught me off guard, I felt it worked with the rest of the book’s artistic choices. 4 must-read summer YA novels, reviewed by Seattle-area teens 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Reinstalled as a sort of omniscient consultant on a highly informal basis, he remains a profane, hair-trigger wild card through the rest of the season. The Pitfalls of Oven-Ready TV 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z An omniscient, wholly good being would prevent the occurrence of any intense suffering it could, unless it could not do so without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Alternatively, the point of view may be omniscient, or all-knowing. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z "Donald Trump is not omniscient or omnipotent, even in a party where he holds a lot of sway." Analysis: Harangued by Trump, Georgia's governor poised to rebuke him in midterm vote 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The dungeon master is more an omniscient narrator than an in-game player; it’s the so-called DM who leads the players through the twisting, turning valleys of what’s to come. Who’s playing Dungeons & Dragons these days? Everyone 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z “Donald Trump is not omniscient or omnipotent, even in a party where he holds a lot of sway.” Analysis-Harangued by Trump, Georgia's governor poised to rebuke him in midterm vote 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z It is lines like that one — seemingly tossed off by the omniscient narrator, a great skill of Tyler’s — that bring heft to this largely plotless book. Anne Tyler’s ‘French Braid’ captures the avoidances and silences of family life 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z For the omniscient point of view, focus on all of the characters. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Bulawayo shifts among omniscient narration, first-person plural, oral history and even chapters written as Twitter threads. Review | In ‘Glory,’ talking animals bear a striking resemblance to real-life tyrants 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Phil residency as the orchestra’s conductor laureate, omnisciently surrounded what turned out to be a very different “FEAST” written a year later with two grave, big-picture, wonder-intense early 20th century works. Review: A new piano concerto by Daníel Bjarnason gets a little help from Edgar Allan Poe 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Many people have come to believe that expert opinion is a unitary, omniscient force. Follow the Science? 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z As the tale gets underway, an omniscient narrator also enters to describe Agatha’s adventures during that fateful night of Dec. 3 and the days that follow. Review | What happened to Agatha Christie in 1926? A new novel explores her curious disappearance. 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Which point of view do you prefer—first, limited third, or omniscient third? Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Among these disparate pieces, we hear the omniscient visions of Jacob’s grandmother. Review | Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘The Books of Jacob’ is finally here. Now we know why the Nobel judges were so awestruck. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Like a good 19 century omniscient novelist, Butler hops seamlessly among his characters’ points of view while recounting their lives and times. Review: Can acting change the world? Isaac Butler argues that it already has 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z “When I reread it, I thought, ‘Wow, this moved so fast,’” says Sanchez, who as a reader is more drawn to sprawling, omniscient narratives — Don DeLillo’s “Underworld” is a favorite. A young writer's road to sobriety and an addiction memoir that redeems the genre 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z But she remains an aching, omniscient presence, sending letters without return addresses to her children, weighing in on their choices and the value of revolution. From poor kid to elite wedding planner to debut author: Xochitl Gonzalez feels 'divine' 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z What enabled him to find traction was his decision to switch from first-person narration to an intimate third-person perspective, a vantage point that would, he said, be “invisible but omniscient.” Review: The real-life demons that drove Dostoevsky to write his masterpiece 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z While his choice of an omniscient narrator allows him room to maneuver, drama leaks from the narrative. Gary Shteyngart writes a perfect pandemic novel with ‘Our Country Friends’ 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Once viewed as omniscient authorities, doctors now openly acknowledge that limitations of medical data require scrutiny and careful application to particular circumstances. Medicine is an imperfect science — but you can still trust its process 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z It may seem like Wall Street investors are omniscient, but they outsource a lot of research to third parties. 5 ways to research stocks like the pros 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z All fiction deals with the underlying question of how it is being told — are we listening in on someone’s thoughts, or an omniscient narrator, something else? Review: Spellbinding novelist Rivka Galchen's new book is a hysterical witch hunt 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Further, it approaches formerly colonized, brutalized and looted nations—colloquially known as “developing countries”—with a deficit model that positions Western society as an omniscient benefactor for the rest of the world. We Must Enhance—but also Decolonialize—America's Global Health Diplomacy 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z He eventually digs a little deeper and touches on the cinematography, but he is fixated on being the omniscient story chronicler. 4K Ultra HD movie reviews: ‘News of the World’ and ‘Gattaca’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z An omniscient narrator tells us what each character is feeling, negating any subtext. Review: A polyamorous relationship is laid bare in 'Show Me What You Got' 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z It was narrated by actress Brie Larson, embodying the role of an omniscient mushroom. Tired of sourdough? In mushrooms we trust 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z But above all he was Mark Twain, standing alone onstage in a rumpled white linen suit, spinning an omnisciently pungent, incisive and humane narration of the human comedy. This week’s passages 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Are Descartes’ almost perfect illusionist, Laplace’s nearly omniscient intelligence and Maxwell’s entropy-resistant imp really as tangible as a microchip or a shock wave? Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z His shots come to represent the gliding, unmediated gaze of some impossible — and faintly malevolent — eye: “I want it to feel omniscient,” Fincher said. David Fincher’s Impossible Eye 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z An immortal, omniscient being watches over each and every one of us, and not just celebrities like Einstein and Beyonce. Will the Universe Remember Us after We're Gone? 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z And, as humans are not omniscient, and the law of unintended consequences is ironclad, there may well be other unexpected costs. Mining Rare-Earth Elements from...Fossilized Fish??? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z His omniscient, controlled voice felt godlike and all-knowing, free from authorial editorializing. Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z If Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” were set in Pottstown, Evan Brandt would be the omniscient Stage Manager, eyeglasses kept on a string, reporter’s notebook waving from his back pocket. The Last Reporter in Town Had One Big Question for His Rich Boss 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z “I prefer the omniscient voice that has knowledge and insight into everyone on the show,” he says. Narration can get a bad rap. For these stories, it's a truth portal into a character 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z This omniscient “intellect” has come to be known as LaPlace’s demon. Will the Universe Remember Us after We're Gone? 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z If I believe that God is the maker of the universe -- omniscient, omnipresent and all powerful -- then what am I doing worrying about anything beyond my control? Trump’s foul-weather gear 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z No Filter, she says, is an omniscient narration of Instagram’s birth and growth, cobbled together from insiders’ memories. How Instagram changed our world 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z I pull down “Madame Bovary” and give myself a few minutes to look at the book’s opening — a first-person omniscient narrative strategy I was trying to recall earlier this morning. A sidelined novelist copes with deadlines, dread and family in quarantine 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In 1985, the omniscient eyes of Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan and seemingly every other top artist witnessed what was obscured from our living room windows. Celebrities, coronavirus has exposed how irrelevant you have become | Rohit Thawani 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z In one of Unferth’s omniscient, sweeping surveys of the industry’s technologically souped-up mechanics, its dystopia of automation, she pinpoints the irony of nature enchained: Review: Fighting late capitalism, one chicken at a time 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z An omniscient satellite, this dense collection of neurons receives data on sensation and movement in the right body and transmits it to the rest of the brain. His hands shook uncontrollably for a decade. MRI-guided ultrasound surgery finally relieved the tremors. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z "Ok, new Ghent lamby is cute and all but the lamb in the Ghent Altarpiece is famous because it's so omniscient and sort of mean looking?" art historian and writer Shannon Stirone said on Twitter. Ghent Altarpiece Lamb of God's 'alarmingly humanoid' face stuns art world 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Then I hand him “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” another wonderful book with an omniscient first-person narrator, and turn to my emails. A sidelined novelist copes with deadlines, dread and family in quarantine 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Ok, new Ghent lamby is cute and all but the lamb in the Ghent Altarpiece is famous because it’s so omniscient and sort mean looking? Art restored with 'alarmingly humanoid' lamb face 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z And he assumes the position of an omniscient leader with a “God’s-eye view” whose insight can, alone, guide others to an otherwise inaccessible truth. My journey into the dark, hypnotic world of a millennial guru 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Mao, like God, could be credibly omniscient only by being unpredictably seen. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In smashing, spray-painting and shining lasers on surveillance cameras across the semi-autonomous Chinese territory, the demonstrators say they are fighting back against an omniscient state security apparatus that already envelops mainland China. AP Photos: Portraits of Hong Kong’s masked protesters 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z I admit that 18 years later I still weep recalling how omniscient he seemed on his last day. Keeping an Older Dog Vibrant 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z They are also the omniscient rulers of their platforms, able to use information on smaller competitors to their own advantage and expand their reach through greater functionality. How Apple uses its App Store to copy the best ideas 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In an interview after the second debate, Anderson Cooper compared her to an omniscient narrator in a play. Marianne Williamson Wants Politics to Enter the New Age 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Four million eyes blending into one omniscient vision. I am not the hive mind of Transetti Prime 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The “one-child policy” was testament to the enveloping propaganda and omniscient reach of the communist state to reshape cities, provinces and villages. She was born into China’s one-child policy. Now, she’s unearthing its ghosts 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Maybe it has something to do with the illusion of omniscient invisibility that the internet confers. The latest online craze is submitting to the mortifying ordeal of being known 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z And the power of the omniscient, omnipresent Michelin inspectors, arriving unannounced and in disguise, and doing as they please with your worldwide reputation. The angry chef or the Michelin guide: which giant ego are you rooting for? | Dale Berning Sawa 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Curiously enough, because Diamantino also serves as the story’s omniscient narrator, he seems to be in on it too, a willing and good-natured victim of everyone else’s jokes and schemes. Review: ‘Diamantino’ is an inspired blast of lunacy, with giant puppies 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z The narrator doesnʼt spell out the connection between her fear about death and her realization that she is not omniscient. Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and “The Making of Americans” 2005-06-06T04:00:00Z “Hiroshima” is told entirely in an unadorned, omniscient third-person voice, which is why it’s often called the first nonfiction novel. John Hersey and the Art of Fact 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The omniscient strangeness imparted by this latest adventure in viewpoint is perfectly suited to conveying the reality of an immortal being. 3 new science-fiction books showcase contributions women bring to the genre 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z We know the basic script: despite the digital utopia we were promised, our lives are now dominated by a tiny number of omniscient, greedy and essentially unaccountable tech companies. Forget Zuckerberg: the tech giants don’t have to own the future | John Harris 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But fans of the podcast will surely be looking to see how closely the performances synch with their first clenched experience hearing it from an omniscient host reporter with the recollections of the subjects themselves. Review: Bravo's 'Dirty John' like 'Real Housewives of Orange County' but with the great Connie Britton 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Stein writes in the guise of an outspoken omniscient narrator, an “I” who likes to interject her own tart views but still accepts standard novelistic norms. Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and “The Making of Americans” 2005-06-06T04:00:00Z Wolfe, in his “New Journalism” essay, enumerated his own set of techniques, which overlapped somewhat with Hersey’s: scene-by-scene construction, use of an omniscient narrator’s voice, use of dialogue, close observation of “status details.” John Hersey and the Art of Fact 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Was there ever a time when Americans believed their elected officials to be benevolent and omnipotent and their journalists to be objective and omniscient beings? Opinion | Trump and Acosta: When Showboats Collide 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z “Traditional journalism is all about delivering a final product to an audience and saying, ‘Trust us, here’s our omniscient authority that we have earned.’ How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, agonizingly omniscient Cassandra tries to break the curse put on her by the god Apollo and alter the events that have doomed her and her ill-fated counterparts unto the generations. 99-Seat Beat: Genderless space creatures, mythic New Jerseyites, bickering Hungarians, and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Each of Martin’s chapters is told through a different character’s perspective, allowing the reader to follow the story not from an omniscient fairy-tale narrator but in a voice that feels true to the time. George R. R. Martin, Fantasy’s Reigning King 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Instead, as burnt offerings to an omniscient God, the ultimate Author, Solstad gives us this series of footnotes, the mere hints and scrapings of a life. Marginal Men Take Center Stage in the Novels of Dag Solstad 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Please win the NL West and save us from the latest edition of the omniscient Bill Plaschke’s autopsy of another Dodgers season. Letters: It's nervous time for Dodgers fans - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z As the omniscient narrator, Bradbury meanders freely between outer space and his own past as he invents his stories “from scratch.” The 99-Seat Beat: 'Time Stands Still,' 'American Saga,' 'Martians' and more 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The filmmakers display technical proficiency — shot rhythms and graceful camerawork suggest an omniscient power gently observing His charges — and there is a natural drama in seeing flawed humans struggle with their belief. Review | Good intentions and a diverse cast aren’t enough to save ‘God Bless the Broken Road’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z "Thackeray is like an omniscient god, sitting up in heaven looking down," says Hughes. 'Without Spielberg I'd be the Vanity Fair maid' 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Yeah, or omniscient, Das said, that’s a problem too, no one is omniscient or infallible. A Buddhism Critic Goes on a Silent Buddhist Retreat 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z “I don’t know why anybody would confuse a mole in a so-called deep state with the omniscient, omnipotent Q,” said Brannon Braga, one of the writers of that final episode. Trump base latches onto ‘Q’ internet conspiracy cult 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “I don’t know why anybody would confuse a mole in a so-called deep state with the omniscient, omnipotent Q,” said Brannon Braga, one of the writers of that famous final episode. The mystery of ‘Q’: How an anonymous conspiracy-monger launched a movement (if the person exists). 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps it was the feeling that I was in the hands of an omniscient narrator rather than a journalist, a narrator who intimately knew the thoughts and feelings of her main character. The Mail 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “But you’re going to need this omniscient understanding of availability” at businesses. Google's 'Reserve' tool winning converts, taking search to next level 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In Roth’s best books, the great omniscient perspective of the 19th-century American novel stands up and looks askance at the mess of the 20th century, making its wry disgust known. How Philip Roth wrote America 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z “If I have an amazingly good set of models and expectations — of my opponents, of my teammates and how the ball will move — it can look like I am totally omniscient.” Perspective | How is LeBron James always one move ahead? Let’s ask the scientists. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “He is omniscient, able to see in all directions simultaneously.” The murals of Tibet, with an assist from the Dalai Lama 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “Today, the manager is not omniscient and not omnipotent,” said Sandy Alderson, the Mets’ general manager, who has watched the position change since his days as an Oakland Athletics executive in the 1980s. Mets’ New Manager Hopes to Deliver, Using Hard Data and the Hard Truth 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Will there be an omniscient digital assistant that will guide passengers through the experience of riding in the car? Geneva Motor Show will be Europe’s chance to show off its Tesla killers 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z A young reporter named Lincoln Steffens — who went on to become a muckraking journalist and author — experienced Byrnes’s omniscient abilities firsthand, after a pickpocket absconded with his weekly pay. Cheats, Swindlers and Ne’er-Do-Wells: A New York Family Album 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z One character is a cheerful omniscient being that lives in a void and is capable of materialising anything. “The Good Place” shows that a comedy can also tackle morality 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Taking a break from being Supreme Being Goddess, omniscient, omnipotent, and responsible for all ills. Margaret Atwood faces feminist backlash 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Waze has sought to curb these reports, but in so doing, it has come across less as omniscient than unthinking and defensive — and above all, corporate. Learning to Fool Our Algorithmic Spies 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Armies of omniscient narrators, channeling unnamed sources, have followed in their footsteps, often less scrupulously. Opinion | Thank you, Steve Bannon 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Etc.? Why would any omnipotent and omniscient god need to sue anyone, anywhere and at any time? Opinion | God Should Sue Roy Moore 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z It reinforces a framing where Google search’s ideal final state is a godlike, omniscient benefactor, not just a well-designed product. It’s time to stop trusting Google search already 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z As the custody hearing begins, the omniscient narrator reveals Bebe’s story, making explicable her postpartum crisis. Celeste Ng: ‘It’s a novel about race, and class and privilege’ 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Believers in an omniscient God tend to assume that nothing can truly be hidden, including doubt. Learning to Fool Our Algorithmic Spies 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Many of us associate morality with praying to an omniscient being who demands unconditional adoration and is fond of raining down the odd plague of locusts. If you believe studies into selfishness, we are all terrible people | Arwa Mahdawi 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Donald Trump's fatal flaw is his "omniscient ignorance", however his most insidious act has been ripping the scab off the chronic wound of racism, that afflicts America society. Opinion | The G.O.P. Is a Mess. It’s Not All Trump’s Fault. 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Videotapes link the narratives of the “V/H/S” series of films, for example, while the omniscient voice of a radio DJ threads disparate tales, including one directed by Benjamin, in “Southbound.” Horror's maestros on what drives the movies that scare us most 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Unlike classic “omniscient” authors, she does not try to tell the reader what to think. Celeste Ng: ‘It’s a novel about race, and class and privilege’ 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z I have long thought it was perverse that three competing "for-profit" companies all have omniscient control over our financial destinies... Opinion | Get Rid of Equifax 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z It quickly became the darling of the elite, of the international media, and of that mythical, omniscient tribe: the “digital natives”. Silicon Valley has been humbled. But its schemes are as dangerous as ever 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z And not just any mind, but an omniscient one: the market computes what individuals cannot grasp. Neoliberalism: the idea that changed the world 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z So, should we leave it Google’s “omniscient algorithm” or IBM’s cognitive computer, called Watson, to decide about what is to be done? How to make democracy work in the digital age 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Bran, far from keeping up a poker face, takes this opportunity to lay his entire hand on the table and reveal to Littlefinger that he’s omniscient now. The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 4, The Spoils of War 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Yet it isn't, humans being the imperfect and hierarchical creatures that they are and history being something that is made rather than handed down from some omniscient scribe. This Is Where the Word 'History' Comes From 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Surreal at times, with poetry and mythology sprinkled in, it is told from the point of view of several protagonists, including that of an omniscient narrator. Lives in India intersect in Arundhati Roy’s long-awaited novel 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z The countless complex interactions necessary to produce a single maple, he discovered, need involve nothing intelligent, omniscient or all-seeing. Natural history: Thoreau's debt to Darwin : Nature : Nature Research 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z That’s the dirty little secret of America’s wars: despite the omniscient claims of some veterans, most soldiers see their version of war as if gazing through a straw at 30,000 feet. There’s a problem with trusting the generals to handle war 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z I walked into the restaurant, where High—a big man in a sweater vest, with a mottled complexion and an omniscient smirk—was sitting at a round table. America’s Most Political Food 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The CBO is not omniscient, but if its projections are even close to accurate then ObamaCare repeal and replacement is the most significant government reform in perhaps three decades. The Health Bill’s Fiscal Bonus 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z It’s more like satire, as the omniscient, omnipresent state does its best to keep the condemned alive long enough to kill them with a fine regard for law. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z When Mr. Ahmad questioned why the people he and his colleagues cited were missing from the list, Mr. Press replied, “The government is not omniscient.” U.S. List of Those Detained for Trump’s Travel Ban Is Called Incomplete 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z If he gets past the Senate, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will help save us from the leftist goal of an almighty state whose supposedly omniscient elites increasingly dictate how we live our lives. Trump’s court nomination vital to national good 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z To refrain from labeling leaders’ statements as lies is to support an unrelenting but not omniscient press, one that trusts readers’ judgments rather than presenting judgments to them. Trump, ‘Lies’ and Honest Journalism 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Her anxiety was structurally related to her ambition; her vigilance resembled the omniscient uncertainty of immigrant parents. Lessons from My Mother 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z So Google created a similar smart speaker powered by the omniscient brains of Google search. Google Home vs. Amazon Echo: A Face-Off of Smart Speakers 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Renoir and Green also share the use of a perspective that is neither omniscient nor subjective—one that is partial and imperfect, but not obviously unreliable. The Novelist of Human Unknowability 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z He will thereby help save us from the leftist goal of an almighty state whose supposedly omniscient elites increasingly dictate how we live our lives. Trump’s court nomination vital to national good 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s tempting, given the limitless power of the omniscient novelist, to plunge into a character’s head and write, baldly, “Laura felt painfully envious”. My best writing tip by William Boyd, Jeanette Winterson, Amit Chaudhuri and more 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z We want scientists to be omniscient the way God used to be. We’re So Confused: The Problems With Food and Exercise Studies 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The game’s answer is curiously like a parent that threatens the omniscient and judgmental eye of Santa Claus. No Man’s Sky expects you to do the heavy lifting of the universe 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z “Brightness Falls,” like a nineteenth-century novel, is told from the perspective of an omniscient narrator; its humor is understated, derived from dry observation and clever dialogue. Jay McInerney’s Middle-Aged Malaise 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z In it, Mr. Spooner takes to its logical conclusion Ms. Shearer’s advice about not understanding something: Don’t trust the person who claims to be omniscient either. The Money Letter That Every Parent Should Write 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z An omniscient narrator of her own life, she bends and folds time cleverly. The Future of Indie Rock Is Female 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z We want scientists to be omniscient the way God used to be... We’re So Confused: The Problems With Food and Exercise Studies 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Graduate students increasingly see nature as teenagers see war in computer games, from above, with the omniscient viewpoint of a satellite. How Technology Affects Our Relationship With Nature 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The account is practically omniscient, benefiting from decades of historical research, thousands of photographs, and countless anecdotes. Read this 'live-tweeting' of D-Day, then read five years' worth of lead up 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z It’s a combination of smarm, distrust and personal embarrassment; the camera acts as omniscient witness backstage in dressing rooms, in agents’ glass offices, in valet lines. Garry Shandling, father of all that is cringeworthy 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z They are increasingly omniscient: no longer do advertisers know just general things about you—a worldly professional, say, with superb taste in journalism—but they target you, specifically. Invisible ads, phantom readers 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z He complains that while lawmakers were “accusing us of incompetence,” civil libertarians were characterizing the same officials as “omniscient.” A blunt defense of interrogations, targeted killings and domestic spying 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Zachary Quinto is all boyish charm as the omniscient narrator, Footnote, wryly informing the audience of helpful plot points with pertinent numbered facts. Review: A family looks for destiny, meaning in ‘Smokefall’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Big Data has fooled us into believing that at long last we’re omniscient. Voter Polls Don't Necessarily Reveal the Truth 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z An omniscient moderator leads players through the two alternating phases of the game – day and night. Death of a troll | Alina Simone 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Given recent events in chicago, it's worth noting that police are not a main antagonist in the film, though Samuel L. Jackson, as a kind of free-floating omniscient narrator, offers a pointed condemnation. 'Chi-Raq': Spike Lee tries to change the gun debate, with comedy and anatomy 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z For the Chinese government, this is exactly the sort of competitive strategizing that might ultimately prove instructive to the construction of its own omniscient system. How China Wants to Rate Its Citizens 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Groff sows her text with bracketed authorial interventions, in which she plays the role of omniscient Greek chorus, reminding us that she is measuring the thread for her invented spools. Lauren Groff and the Mythology of Marriage 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z I need it to be an omniscient coupon clipper and keeper of receipts. Review: Samsung Pays Where Apple Can’t 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z No doctor is omniscient; guidelines keep changing and it’s impossible to keep abreast of the mountain of knowledge. If your doctor isn't taking your endometriosis seriously, it's time to find a new one | Ranjana Srivastava 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The book’s two halves are linked together by a wry, omniscient voice that pops up in square brackets to qualify, contradict, or resolve the mysteries of the characters’ lives. Lauren Groff: 'I didn't want there to be extramarital sex in this book' 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z On La Di Da Di, Battles position themselves as omniscient creators powerful enough to make the world as we know it shrink in favor of theirs, if only for an hour. Battles built a new world for their music on La Di Da Di 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The augmentation system allows for a range of specialist abilities, while enemies are just clever enough to make them a challenge rather than impassible omniscient death machines. The nine greatest stealth games 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z They hope to show that the more omniscient and punitive the gods that people worship, the more money they are willing to give to strangers in their own religious community. Feature: Why big societies need big gods 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z A Cambrian explosion of wrist-bound doodads would record our heartbeats, measure our steps, message our loved ones, and serve as omniscient hubs of every notification an app might ever want to send us. Can you ID these busted wrist wearables? 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z "There's no God's-eye point-of-view, nothing omniscient — just a subjective look at a brief window of time," he said of the movie, which is seen through Lipsky's eyes and set mainly over just five days. How 'End of the Tour' became a very David Foster Wallace kind of film 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Three paparazzi had apparently been trailing my car–I hitched a ride from Perry’s driver–and so her head of security, from some seemingly omniscient location, dispatched me on foot. How Katy Perry Became America's Top Pop Export: The Forbes Cover Story 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z From the first paragraph, an omniscient narrator refers to George as “she,” so that when other characters use male pronouns to refer to George, it feels jarring. Transgender Children’s Books Fill a Void and Break a Taboo 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z They are called the Trees of Life, and they are but one of the bizarre gestures by Rosario Murillo, the omniscient and omnipotent wife of President Daniel Ortega. Nicaragua's first lady is a powerful partner of president 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The eyes painted on the gold spire above it - symbolizing the omniscient, all-seeing nature of Buddha - peered in four directions across the valley. Damaged by deadly quake, fate of Nepal heritage unsure 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The eyes painted on the gold spire above it symbolize the omniscient, all-seeing nature of Buddha. Damaged by deadly quake, fate of Nepal heritage unsure 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z The power of the organization—omniscient, powerful and unaccountable enough to destroy Starling City last season if need be—is a little bit over-the-top. 'Arrow' Season 3, Episode 17 Review: Suicidal Tendencies 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z One of the last predictions from Steve Jobs, the omniscient founder of Apple Apple, was that TV would be the next frontier ripe for a design overhaul. SungardASVoice: Was Steve Jobs Really Wrong About Television? 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z “I’m omniscient,” tweeted the clever fellow behind @TheTweetofGod, “but even I don’t know what the Philadelphia Eagles are doing.” Has Eagles Coach Chip Kelly Gone Mad? 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Even if the markets were omniscient, a 90 percent favorite would win only about 90 percent of the time — and events with 10 percent odds happen all the time. Before Oscar Night, Playing the Odds With a Bettor’s Mind-Set 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The eyes painted on the gold spire above it symbolize the omniscient, all-seeing nature of Buddha. Damaged by deadly quake, fate of Nepal heritage unsure 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z The church doubled down on something that was actively hurting and estranging its members in a cynical move to consolidate its power and appear omniscient. “Women gave me a better understanding”: What the GOP could learn from this Democrat’s abortion rights awakening 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z This week two terrifying close videos were published to YouTube, as if an omniscient being wanted to remind us that at any moment of any day a metaphorical hippo may strike. It's been a strange, crowded month for terrifying near-death videos 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z These libraries do not pretend to offer exclusive, omniscient, objective history. Presidential library sites offer new ways to understand the leaders 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z What this all means is that it’s in the United States’ best interests to claim omniscient powers of attribution. Why Secrecy Should Take a Back Seat in Our Intelligence on the Sony Hack 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Against the omniscient marvels of today’s surveillance state, Big Brother’s fixtures — the watchful televisions and hidden microphones — seem quaint, even reassuring. Julian Assange on Living in a Surveillance Society 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “What is the voice? It is limited or omniscient? . . . What is foreshadowing? Where do we see it? In the title!” Experimental high school in Virginia struggles to teach surge of border kids Franzen echoes that sentiment in T27C, when his omniscient narrator intones, “Born lucky, residents guess. This is a home that feels like home.” Grasping Ferguson Through Franzen: St. Louis and Its ‘Tragic Glory’ But doing her best isn’t enough for her: she feels obligated to be omniscient so that there are never any surprises down the road. SungardASVoice: Stress On The Job: 5 Ways You Are Mentally Sabotaging Yourself 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z It seems Rowling is willing to revisit the Potter world as long as it's not in the omniscient narrative voice of the novels. J.K. Rowling Updates Muggles on Harry Potter's Adulthood The Little Friend is the least popular of Tartt's novels, in large part, I suspect, because it is told in third-person omniscient narration. Donna Tartt: Is this the year of The Goldfinch? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Indeed the whole tradition of yoga was aimed at perfecting and transforming the body, with a view, among the higher adepts, to making it transcendent, omniscient, even god-like. The sacred and sensuous in Indian art 2014-04-04T16:11:42Z In the age of an omniscient media, much is already known about the story that Vogelstein aims to tell. Apple And Google And The Fight For The Mobile Ecosystem: A Conversation And Review 2014-04-02T21:39:00Z If you feel that you have to be perfect and omniscient, you also tend to believe that mistakes are the end of the world. SungardASVoice: Stress On The Job: 5 Ways You Are Mentally Sabotaging Yourself 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z By all accounts, the ban has held, even for a Mossad that regards as one of its most potent assets its reputation as omniscient puppet-master – the hidden hand behind every unexplained event. Israelis See Pollard as Hero and Hostage 2014-04-01T12:18:01Z Traffic flows are better managed by an omniscient driving algorithm when the number of choices is limited: car must all stay on the highway and move forward. By 2015, Cars Will Become Endpoints 2014-01-28T14:41:00Z In a sharply worded decision, Forrest said securities laws do not require banks to be "prescient or omniscient," such that UBS should be liable for what "at most" reflected "internal management issues" and "competing incentives." UBS ruled not liable to U.S. shareholders for rogue trader 2013-12-13T23:08:18Z They more closely resembled Little Brothers than the Orwellian image of an omniscient and fearsome Big Brother. At Sina Weibo's censorship hub, China's Little Brothers cleanse online chatter 2013-09-12T00:24:45Z Heavens, what if you are not perfect or omniscient and you make a mistake? SungardASVoice: Stress On The Job: 5 Ways You Are Mentally Sabotaging Yourself 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Sometimes rebels speak of him as if he were omniscient, in part because his voice often precedes important events, like the arrival of a military convoy. At War Blog: Guiding Rebels by Radio: The Unmistakable Voice of a Syrian Spotter 2013-08-06T13:00:29Z There seems to be a disconnect between the expectation that our intelligence agencies be omniscient about potential threats, and the contention that they should not be monitoring and analyzing all communications to distill relevant information. Anonymous Leak Demonstrates Problem With NSA Surveillance 2013-06-07T15:54:23Z And the rich are not the omniscient cosmopolitans conjured up by the lobbyists. The cracked argument for tax havens 2013-05-10T09:00:03Z What he describes is the omniscient fictional computing device from an old TV program. The Future of Google Search: When the Internet Knows You 2013-05-08T17:05:24Z None of the brothers enjoyed the omniscient powers invested in their father, who feared rivalry among the siblings. Ingvar Kamprad's Ikea philosophy is only as strong as the sum of its parts 2013-03-05T14:00:29Z I will leave it at this: in a world where everyone is known, there is no need for an omniscient middleman. Tokenization And The Collapse Of The Credit Card Payment Model 2013-02-15T20:27:06Z But the seductive theoretical simplicity of drone warfare--omniscient surveillance, surgical precision, zero risk--has led the nation into a labyrinth of confusion and moral compromise. Open Sky: After Transforming War, Drone Use Takes Off on the Home Front 2013-01-31T13:05:24Z And yet, Tapper doesn’t leap from the pages as an omniscient critic raining down judgment. Book Review: The Outpost--A Crucial History of the Afghanistan War 2012-11-13T15:35:31Z Still, his omniscient style is reminiscent of the very men he chastises. The financial crisis: Easy to describe, hard to fix 2012-10-11T15:07:28Z Despite his or her importance, the new governor will not be omniscient, however useful that quality would be. Bank of England Governor: What does the job involve? 2012-10-08T14:31:19Z Much like the God of biblical lore, but without omniscient supernatural abilities, the President represents the ultimate “Big Brother” in social regulatory terms, with a panoptical view into our private lives. Imaginary Presidents and Imaginary Gods: The Real "Empty Chair" Effect 2012-09-04T18:15:12.067Z And she is the president’s protector in chief, or as Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner put it, the person who must be as “omniscient as possible” in spotting trouble on the way. Valerie Jarrett Is the Other Power in the West Wing 2012-09-02T02:02:22Z Occasionally, we give directions, making us feel rather self-satisfied, if not omniscient. A Quest to See the City That Tourists So Love 2012-07-21T14:29:28Z It assumes that everyone is the same, omniscient person. Are Economics PhDs Learning the Wrong Thing? 2012-06-01T10:00:30Z Such is the supreme God of the Vedic religion, an organizing God, almighty, omniscient, and moral. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Neither God omniscient, nor nature infallible, can be assumed by the philosopher as trying experiments. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Nothing is too trivial for the omniscient philosopher, and nothing is too great. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z If men introduce the notion of infinite punishments and infinite rewards distributed by an omniscient Judge, they can undoubtedly supply stronger reasons for practising virtue than can ever be found for practising vice. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z “God,” if omnipotent and omniscient, could just as easily, and much more benevolently, have contrived that there should never be any sinners, and, therefore, never any need for hell or torment. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z But it is not only as the Creator of the world that he is omniscient: he knows all things, because, being all light, he sees all things. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z I never believed spiritual beings to be omnipotent, omnipresent, nor omniscient. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z With regard to Iviza, the third in importance of the Balearic Isles, even the usually omniscient Baedeker maintains a dignified reserve. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The great God, our Heavenly Father and supreme Lord, is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent—the supreme over all. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z He can never perceive; the act of perception results in the obtaining a new idea, but if God be omniscient, his ideas have been eternally the same. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z By marrying Internet, cellphone and video surveillance, the government is seeking to create an omniscient monitoring system, said Nicholas Bequelin, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch in Hong Kong. Bain Capital Tied to Surveillance Push in China 2012-03-16T02:23:08Z Or again he saw him beaten and ill-treated, shrieking for the father who had been always to him as heaven, omniscient and omnipotent--but shrieking in vain. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Through countless ages he has grown towards greater perfection, and at the present, though in comparison with humankind, he is omniscient and omnipotent, he is still progressing. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z Yet if we delve below this romanticism of Balaustion we shall find the poet’s own belief in the almost omniscient power of human love the basis of the relation between Admetos and Alkestis. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Here there ought not to be any question raised of changed conditions, for the command is from “the Lord,” that is, from the assumed immutable, omniscient Omnipotent. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z There isn't any omniscient general back of us, directing the campaign. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Buddha, with omniscient vision, had caused her to come to Tsu for the accomplishment of the curse of the martyr. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z He is omniscient, and omnipotent; for His great knowledge enables Him to direct the forces of nature. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z Carlyle, as Browning represents him, cannot reconcile the existence of evil with beneficent and omniscient power. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z That mental infirmity in the individual may be irremediable by Deity is a proposition which challenges the assumed omniscient omnipotence. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z With an omniscient father, what was she to do? A Singular Metamorphosis 2012-02-01T03:00:10.613Z There was indelibly written what would have startled that reverent man out of all his omniscient composure. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The butler left the room and Mr. Benoliel became at once mysterious and omniscient. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Now, as an omniscient Being must possess all knowledge, his avowed ignorance in this case is a confession he was not omniscient, and hence not a God. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z That person, while hiding from the other players, can see the entire map in an omniscient view on the new Wii U controller. Can Nintendo Redefine Gaming Again With The Wii U? (Hands On At CES) 2012-01-13T22:30:27Z Now, Harry Pallant happened to be the particular person employed by the editor of this omniscient journal to supply the answers to the weekly shoals of anxious interrogators de omni scibili. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z Now in the hour of trial, homeward I come to my Father at noon; no more in fear to approach Him, believing His mercy omniscient. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z With that touch of charlatanism which made him delight in posing as omniscient, he had stated as a fact what he only suspected. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z "I had thought of that difficulty," said Mr. Hunter in his most omniscient manner. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Your general practitioner is a suspiciously omniscient person, and it is far sager to know less and to charge more. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The Buddhist sees in the sayings of his sacred book "Dhammapadam" the exact inheritance of the infallible words of his omniscient teacher Buddha. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z But the second outcome is at least as important: it relieves the CEO of the burden of being omniscient. How Do You Decide On Price? Experiment 2011-12-02T13:00:00Z There are some things about the governance of this world which I don't understand, which shows I am not omniscient. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z Where Pandora is omniscient and calculating, working to crack songs like codes or pretty algorithms, Stereomood is malleable and sensual, working with users to categorize music based on how it makes a listener feel. Stereomood Delivers "Emotional" Internet Radio 2011-11-29T19:56:07Z The "omniscient" and "omnipotent" God of theology I regard as a disease of the philosophy-shop. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Omniscience could idly view the transformations of reality and yet remain omniscient. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The Mexicans recognized a supreme Creator as the God by whom we live, one who was, for them, omnipresent and omniscient—the giver of all good things, "without whom man is as nothing." Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Countess Sophie, the omniscient, by means of a happy accident, had got a fairly clear idea of the outlines of the Great Storage Scheme. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Nothing in the world but a perpetual reminder that we're not omniscient. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Being omniscient He knew who liked which dish, and directed Swarup to serve each according to his taste. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z How these questions are to be answered by facts, time must discover, and God only, who is omniscient, can certainly foresee. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z If we regard the Almighty as omnipresent and omniscient, we cannot imagine that He can require messengers, or organize an "intelligence department" in Heaven. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z For to be omniscient must indeed be the greatest power. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The Council of Trent scorned all these contradictions and unintelligible points, and declared with infallible authority that man's Will is free and that at the same time God is omniscient. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z “The English language,” an omniscient narrator notes, has “deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, Valley girl, inner-city slang and various grunts.” How Low Can We Go? 2011-11-11T10:00:37Z And is not this a ray that breaks, With unquench'd potency, Forth from the Omnipotent,—a light From his omniscient eye? The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The belief in Angels incompatible with that of an omnipresent and omniscient God. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z These did not hesitate to sit in judgment on their fellows, to discuss and impute intentions which with knowledge any less than omniscient they could not possibly possess. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z The omniscient God must be her witness, that this view of her conduct had never struck her before; she felt herself a great sinner. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z These, with the infinitude of things, have been eternally deliberated by the omniscient mind, who can admit of no additional intelligence, whether by prayer or otherwise, which renders it nugatory. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z Neither quality is predicable of an omniscient and omnipotent being, for whom there could be no difficulties or evils to overcome. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Invisible, but omniscient, the Pope was seen nowhere, while his power was felt everywhere. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z In the immense starry night, with the sands glittering all around like a silver sea, loomed the immense Neith, the omniscient wisdom. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z First, midst and last he holds With His omniscient grasp.” The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z There is not the slightest doubt that he believed in a Supreme Being of omnipotent power and omniscient watchfulness over the children of men, and that this great Being could be reached by prayer. Abraham Lincoln's Religion 2011-09-03T02:00:20.697Z Who can possibly discern God in this perennial toil by which He divides Himself into two natures—one omniscient, the other knowing nothing? The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The sound of the governor's voice had scarcely died in the marbled corridors when Sachsen, the omniscient, the indispensable secretary, bustled into the sanctum. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z In these abandoned temples the lost wisdom especially had been cultivated by the omniscient priests, the heirs of Moses and of Hermes Trismegistus. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z “I’ve heard this from my reliable sources,” the newspaper said, attributing the words to Mr. Berlusconi yet without citing him directly, an omniscient narrator approach common in Italian journalism. For Italy, Farce May Be Descending Into Tragedy 2011-08-02T20:25:45Z But the Emperor is not omniscient, like God. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z May we here be reminded in our solemn times that the same omniscient Lord, who knows the end from the beginning, has spoken concerning this age, now closing in its predicted apostasy. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z "Therefore," Ælian concludes, "if he, the omniscient god, pronounces that there are tritons, it does not behove us to doubt their existence." Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z Except for this subject his taste is catholic, and his foible is to pose as omniscient. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z A most trustworthy—but inexperienced—young man was in charge of the downstairs office, where Mr. Groeninger, the omniscient, usually reigned. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Thus the center of the universe is constantly changing, and it would take omniscient wisdom to tell where the center is, and then it would not remain the center many hours. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z “The celestial court,” omnipotent and omniscient, hurled its bolt at the pacific heretic of England. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z All that duty enjoins is to design and to execute nothing which may not be approved by a divine and omniscient Observer. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z The mere inflection of Mr. Ewart's voice, told us he had succumbed on the way over to our omniscient One. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z This is scarcely the language to be expected from an omniscient God. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z It was introduced with Abraham, slow but forward looking and omniscient, for humanity was lost without it. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z He can never perceive; the act of perception results in the obtaining a new idea, but if God be omniscient his ideas have been eternally the same. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z How he lieth in wait for everybody! how omniscient he is! how unsparing! how certain and sure of everything! The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z As everyone knows, financial markets are hardly omniscient. Debt ceiling panic attack 2011-05-19T22:01:00Z The omniscient, omnipotent, and infinite Deity, of what can he be jealous? The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z It is the omniscient wisdom embraced in the laws and forces of electric energy, which is the right hand of Deity and the word of Creative power. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z If we can not prove the immensity or omnipresence of the Deity, we can for that reason never show that he is omniscient, that he is omnipotent, that he is entirely free.... A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z On the eve of leaving his sequestered haunts in the hills, none but the omniscient Providence could tell for how long, Lem Lutts was loath to turn his eyes toward the blue-grass country. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z So then, after a while, that omniscient Deity said slowly: All this has come about, by reason of a dream. A Syrup of the Bees 2011-04-23T02:00:04.300Z The omniscient Deity could hardly have needed to prove his people, as he must have known what course of conduct they would pursue. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z But it does indicate a mental process that religious ideas of a judgmental, omniscient god would be able to tap into. Religious studies: The good god guide 2011-04-20T11:06:02Z Elihu Palmer well observes: "The Christian world worships three infinite gods, and one omniscient devil." A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z I have never met a person so nearly omniscient. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Henceforward there was to be but one God in Egypt, a God who was omnipresent and omniscient, existing everywhere and in everything, and who would brook no rival at his side. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z In the Hindoo mythology we shall find several instances of Gods, under whose feet paved work may be seen; but these Gods are neither omnipotent, infinite, nor omniscient. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z It was a habit only a year old, of which even the omniscient Stanief was ignorant. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z Even to keep abreast of the periodical literature devoted to his subject provides ample occupation for the ethnologist and few are those who can now lay claim to such an omniscient title. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The omniscient philosophies which the two have issued are identical in their main ideas about intuition, love and wisdom, familiarity of the living with the dead, classification of ghostly spheres, astronomical theology, etc. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z According to the omniscient Taylor, Schwarzenberg's spendings were on a scale quite outside the Ellis range. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z A third exploration reveals its almost omniscient and omnipotent headship as for three centuries the world’s centre for the intellectual and material forces that have so largely built up our civilization. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z It is a regal survival of the theory that government is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z We know no greater God than the omniscient, omnipotent Father. A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-14T03:01:04.693Z For to suppose that there was a point of duration when the plan was first conceived, would imply new knowledge in one confessedly omniscient; and that destroys the idea of omniscience. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Yet no president can be expected to be omniscient. Obama's Egypt and Foreign Policy Failires 2011-02-13T15:00:00Z Policymakers are never omniscient, but they are, at their best, persistent. The real threat to health-care reform (Hint: It's not the Supreme Court) 2011-02-08T02:04:01Z Milor was wont to speak of him as being omniscient and having marvellous powers. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z "It is doubtless on the other side of the castle," observed Hubert, with an omniscient glance. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z The almost omniscient eyes of the Kirk Sessions kept watch, moreover, on the behaviour of the congregation while at the services. Bygone Church Life in Scotland 2011-01-14T03:00:48.713Z She did not venture to remove her gaze from those omniscient eyes, which smilingly examined and disrobed her, and killed her last shy hope. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z If that which is known may be overruled by that which is unknown, no being, not omniscient, can arrive at certainty.” Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The illusion of omniscient intelligence ended years before that. Private Spies: Rubicon Make 24 Look Sunny 2010-07-31T06:45:00Z Benevolent Healer, you play the omniscient wise man doing the thinking for your patients. Talk Therapy Can Be Potent Medicine 2010-07-01T16:07:00Z Armed with their whistles and their yellow and red cards, they are somewhat omnipotent, but hardly omniscient or infallible — as the World Cup referees on hand on Monday were certainly willing to acknowledge. Referees Talk in the Open, but Not About That One Call 2010-06-22T01:06:00Z For the stark evidence of recent years is that even though markets remain omnipotent, they are by no means omniscient and anything but infallible. The people have spoken. Don't let the markets shout them down 2010-05-10T05:00:00Z And that underscores his determination to be an omniscient and omnipresent commentator on health-related affairs, one-stop shopping for all your somatic curiosities and some of your spiritual and intellectual ones to boot. Mehmet Oz - Dr. Does-It-All 2010-04-16T16:06:00Z And he, in his infinite, omniscient polling wisdom, sees a victory for Brown and the GOP. 2010-01-18T23:55:00Z To what extent do you retain that remarkable omniscient quality? Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile Invisible, everywhere present, omniscient, and infinitely good, he is never invoked. Heathen Mythology "The divine Arhat is the supreme lord, the omniscient one, who has overcome all faults, desire, &c.,—adored by the three worlds, the declarer of things as they are." The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy Only the image of poor humanity probably looks somewhat different to the omniscient eyes of God than when seen through the spectacles of our arrogant prejudices. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History Like Fate, he appeared to the Prussians, incalculable, inexorable, and omniscient; superintending the smallest as well as the greatest things. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. I may need a wife and you may need a wife, but if you think I'm going into any co-operative scheme with you in that matter you are less omniscient than usual. Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile Even the omnipotent, omniscient Nanny could not take a pill. Sinister Street, vol. 1 A Jaina would say, "If the Arhat were not omniscient, his words would not be true and authoritative, but we see that they are, therefore he is omniscient." The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy And, if he were omniscient, would he always be able to know what would be right? Majesty A Novel "And where has it taken up its abode, omniscient friend?" The Children of the World Do they merely say: God is omniscient, therefore our life has its purpose defined, and we are saved? The Sources Of Religious Insight Captious, cocksure, omniscient, he revelled in the uses of raillery and of repartee. The Shadow of a Man No omniscient being is seen by the sense here in this world by ourselves or others; nor is there any part of him seen which might help us as a sign to infer his existence. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy There was no limit to this, for the experiments show that there is some quality in the soul of man that seems to be omniscient, or in direct correspondence with omniscience. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 How is she to understand why I repel with loathing and horror the thought that all I suffer is the work of an omniscient, omnipotent, and yet all merciful Father? The Children of the World If any one had been there, he had melted like a ghost, for neither Rollo's swift decision nor the Sergeant's omniscient cunning could discover any trace of an intruder. The Firebrand He is happy as a god because he is omniscient and omnipotent, because he has just discovered the true answer of the Great Enigma, yet dying because he cannot survive humanity. Underground Man An omniscient being who had a beginning can never be the subject of the eternal Veda; and how can he be established by a made and spurious Veda? The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy "Well, yes; as you seem to be omniscient, sir, and friendly to him, we did see Chermside on the marsh that night," Reggie admitted. A Traitor's Wooing But that not one of one hundred thousand omniscient New-Yorkers knew whether to laugh, to curse, or to weep at what they saw made that sight very decidedly "news." H. R. Schnabelsdorf the omniscient, once said: "The hour at which men retire is the measure of their civilization." On the Heights A Novel But, oh, how every small wrong made her remember the almost omniscient love of her husband, and the involuntary and constant cry of her heart was, “If Antony were only here!” Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance And the latter supposition is inadmissible, since it would be impossible for any person who was not omniscient to know that no author of the Veda was recollected by any person whatever. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy He cannot know you from within; he is not omniscient, not omnipresent. The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation If the entire imperialistic process could be directed by one omniscient individual, representing the interest of all industrial and agricultural countries, the progress of imperialism would be regular, rapid and easy. American World Policies But the omniscient Baron was, even then, better informed as to dates and circumstances than they were. On the Heights A Novel The message—nine words without signature—lay before him: Thicket knot youngster omniscient issue foliage lecture tragic instigation. The Blind Man's Eyes Besides, if they were so omniscient, why bother to try to stop him with words? Beyond The Thunder Many make a god of him, endow him with attributes of deity, regarding him as both omnipresent and omniscient. The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation And yet omniscient, none is shed without thy will! Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) "Am I omniscient?" replied the priest, shrugging his shoulders. The Scarlet Banner The Panoptae was a satire on the sophists and omniscient speculative philosophers of the day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" I am telekinetic, practically omniscient and control my environment to a large extent. The Seventh Order It's this mucking inefficiency and death of the cosmos—and don't tell me that isn't in the cards!—masquerading as benign omniscient authority. The Big Time The work referred to begins by describing the state of things in the beginning; the good spirit in endless light and omniscient, and the evil spirit in endless darkness and with limited knowledge. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" If wealth were distributed by omniscient wisdom and power according to the maxim of Louis Blanc, the higher welfare would still be as far away as ever, unless the same omniscience should control all actions. Rural Health and Welfare The raven's cry Strikes never vainly, thy omniscient ear, No effort, but is answered "here am I," No prayer but finds the parent very near. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation Was this man omniscient, that nothing could escape him? Barclay of the Guides The impersonal relator is omniscient, but his omniscience is not so obtrusive as in the story that touches on the facts of the soul. The Technique of Fiction Writing “All things obey him, the order of the universe depends upon his will—he is the creator, sustainer, the omnipotent and omniscient.” The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations |
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