Indeed, shortly after the workshop, in a warning that now sounds prescient, Rocco Landesman, the president of Jujamcyn Theaters, said good buzz could backfire.

It was the only thing the Bulls' coach could say, but it did not sound any more prescient than the decision Jackson made at the start of the fourth quarter last night.

From Sulla it sounded ominously prescient; Scaurus shuddered instead.

Kinnock's speech on the eve of the 1983 election has never sounded more prescient.

During a City Council debate on the referendum in 1998, Andrew S. Eristoff, then a Republican representing Manhattan, sounded prescient about that project or any other sports palace.

Although the import of these e-mail messages has been minimized by space officials as what-if, worst-case scenarios, they sound eerily prescient.

He sounds uncannily prescient, but so do the book's other major figures.

But in his book "The Audacity of Hope," he sounded prescient about the dangers of the money chase, noting that he could not assume it "didn't alter me in some ways."

Sounding prescient, Mr. Bennett complained that "this is going to lead to confusion" and argued that a deposition is not supposed to be "a trap."

When you're good, you can sound prescient.