It is the existential dread of helplessness. Comets have caused numerous waves of fear and panic, even in modern times. In ...

Was it the presentiment of the future—the serious outcome of the war that he feared, that threw its shadows over him? Or was it indeed only an after-effect of the deep head wound that he had ...

Yes,/I have been here before.” A Ministry opens Seán Hewitt’s Rapture’s Road (Cape, £12.99). Readers have been here before in ...

Freedom and expectation. He wanders out onto the strand at the north side of the river mouth where presentiment had long since warned him he would meet his love. Bond after bond falls away from him.

The Squire’s sister, Lady Hester, feels an awful presentiment of doom and is on the defensive around Evangeline, but only ...

(These weary men have already committed the Gettysburg Address to memory — a presentiment of the schoolboy’s homework in Minority Report.) Spielberg’s intention to line up with “the right ...

Exploding, eventually, into colour, this invigorating show dedicated to the early 20th-century expressionist group gives ...

whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? We see then: the means of production ...

Historian After visiting Corsica, Rousseau declared, "I have a presentiment that one day this small island will astonish Europe." Corsica did. Born there in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte would convulse ...

On Satyajit Ray’s birthday, we explore how (in the words of Soumitra Chatterjee) ‘he never lost the curiosity and wonder of a ...

One newspaper reported that among the populace, there suddenly came “a kind of vague fear, of impending danger—a prophetic presentiment of some approaching catastrophe.” Some loudly ...