Delphic utterance

Everyone else seemed satisfied with this Delphic utterance, so I said nothing.

He was given occasionally to delphic utterances.

Mr. Greenspan seems to reserve his most Delphic utterances for occasions on which he must discuss monetary policy and interest rates.

I found one other instructive quote from the right hon. Gentleman - a delphic utterance worthy of William Wordsworth at his best.

And today, as traders went to work in Australia and Tokyo, they were watching every delphic utterance of Mr. Hayami.

Instead, from one day to the next, the market has taken its cue from Mr. Hosokawa's sometimes Delphic utterances, virtually allowing the Government to control the market's direction.

Finance ministers and central bankers interpreted Rubin's Delphic utterance as a sign that the United States would stop its two-year effort to push the dollar higher against other currencies.

He wrote on national history, religious symbolism, and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance.

'Only people fail, not the system', was one of his two Delphic utterances emblazoned on every available wallspace throughout the Federation and echoed daily on the nine public video channels.

When dealing with the press corps, Hutton used heavy silences and "developed the art when it suited him of delivering with much gravity Delphic utterances which his hearers could interpret however they pleased"

Obviously two top-drawer reporters like Messrs. Bernstein and Woodward, who broke the Watergate story with Deep Throat's help, would not have gone out on a limb by trying to interpret Haig's Delphic utterances.

A Shadowy Power Mr. Kanemaru, a 77-year-old leader known for delphic utterances and for unquestioned behind-the-scenes influence in the ruling party and elsewhere, made his admission and resignation announcement at a hastily arranged press conference this afternoon.

If Mr. Greenspan nonetheless finds ways to rationalize Mr. Bush's irresponsibility, or if he takes refuge in Delphic utterances that could mean anything or nothing, history will remember him as a man who urged hard choices on others, but refused to make hard choices himself.

CALL them the Three Fates, the Three Graces or the Three Furies, but the women who invented modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham - could only speak of their work in Delphic utterances.