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providential

pro vuh den chuhl

  • s  peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention
    a providential recovery
  • a  relating to or characteristic of providence
    assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan"- M.R.Cohen
  • s  resulting from divine providence
    providential care
    a providential visitation

  • For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000.
  • Stewart, 37, was the first foreign press fatality in the 19 months of fighting, a providential record considering the grave risks that many journalists have been taking.
  • For some, this thought is a source of existential anguish: the Jew who lost his faith in a providential God at Auschwitz, the Simone de Beauvoir who writes:.
Quotes

  • Sarah Palin in Los Angeles Times
    It's like kind of providential yesterday what happened to me,Palin said. "I am reading on my Starbucks mocha cup the quote of the day. You'll never believe what the quote was! It was Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state and UN...
  • Al Sharpton in Kansas City Star
    I think it has to be providential that Phillip White preserved all of this,said Sharpton.

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