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"Cassandra" in a Sentence (19 examples)
You are like Cassandra.
E'en then – alas! to Trojan ears in vain – / Cassandra sang, and told in utterance plain / the coming doom.
Dragged by her tresses from Minerva's fane, / Cassandra comes, the Priameian maid, / stretching to heaven her burning eyes in vain, / her eyes, for bonds her tender hands constrain.
"O son, long trained in Ilian fates, he said, / this chance Cassandra, she alone, displayed. / Oft to Hesperia and Italia's reign / she called us."
"Sheela, what do you think is the meaning or purpose of this universe?" "Cassandra, I think there is no meaning or purpose. Like a painting or sculpture, this universe just is." "Hmm."
"Sheela, what's your religion?" "Cassandra, I'm Dharmic, swinging between Buddhism and Hinduism."
"What's your religion, Cassandra?" "Sheela, I think I tend towards Animism, like Shinto or Daoism."
"Cassandra, Bodhi Day is the Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the historical Buddha experienced enlightenment." "The eighth of December, right, Sheela?" "Correct."
"Cassandra, the fifteenth of December is Zamenhof Day!" "It's the birthday of Esperanto's creator, Doctor Zamenhof, right, Sheela?" "Correct."
"Sheela, what kind of meditation are you learning at the Thai temple?" "Cassandra, I’m actually learning two kinds: samatha or tranquillity and vipassanā or insight."
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And so when Cassandra foretold the evils that were to come upon Troy, even her own people would not credit her words.
But succeeding ages (little regarding S. Chrysosthome's admonition to the contrary) have recalled prophane names, so as now Diana, Cassandra, Hyppolytus, Venus, Lais, names of unhappy disaster are as rife, as ever they were in paganism.
Warren J. Tyler, son of Joel, was born in Byron, July 28, 1828. He married Cassandra Tyler, of Stafford, and has four children living.
"What's your name?" I asked. "Cassandra." Ah, a mythical name. It fit with the fairy-tale looks.
Cassandra sat down on a small sofa next to Mrs Budley.
"Well, take my word for it, those girls will never marry; marriage is like money—seem to want it, and you never get it." The Cassandra was scarcely departed, when the objects of her oracle appeared—Mrs. Fergusson and her two daughters.
1876–1877, "The New Republic", book III, chapter IV, page 46 in Belgravia: An Illustrated London Magazine, volume XXXI 'By the way,' said Mr. Saunders […] , 'I suppose I may speak the truth freely, as I know well enough that all to whom my vaticinations would be unwelcome are sure to mistake me for a Cassandra.'
When Cassandras like Pete Peterson, the former Commerce Secretary, present alarming numbers about the future burden of baby boomers on the budget, it turns out that only part of that prospective burden represents the sheer demographic effects of an aging population: […]
Very commonly the forerunner of mat formation is the cassandra (Chamaedaphne calyculata). This shrub occurs both along the shore and along the edges of the advancing mat and frequently grows out several feet into the open water.
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