How To Use Adumbrate In A Sentence
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In Clarke's Childhood's End, for example, the promised escape into godhood is only adumbrated, as the Union with Overmind served by the Overlords might be interpreted to be psychic rather than supernatural, and evolution rather than Gnosis is the mechanism.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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Freshly out of rehab, Quirke begins drinking again and frankly, one can't blame him – there's his grim childhood on top of the daughter business (adumbrated here but detailed in the first two books), plus the fact that Dublin in the 50s was small-minded and stifling as well as foggy and soggy.
Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review
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One of those dead afternoons, adumbrated, slumberous: not a customer in view.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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And Reeve nails the problem with market-led concepts of desert only to adumbrate an alternative that is equally infelicitous.
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The slow movement ‘Aria,’ finely adumbrated by pizzicato bass at the scherzo's end, is a grave conversation among the string sections and their principals.
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These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.
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This is an auteur who works from deep within herself to establish a mood, adumbrate a design, build a tempo, and intimate an idea.
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In this chapter, however, we want to adumbrate the principal features of the continuum view of non-linear viscoelasticity.
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V. Quine argued against when he took himself to be arguing against the typical possibilist realism (Quine 1976), and it is arguably the view many possible-worlds theorists adumbrated, however vaguely and amorphously, as the representative possibilist realist theory before Lewis forcefully articulated his own version.
Possible Objects
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You're standing on a high cliff, chopped off and adumbrated by the heaving green of the sea.
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The outlines of the legend of the politically naïve scholar are already adumbrated in the biographical essay Heidegger submitted to the de-Nazification committee in 1945.
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Toward the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial relation to the literary past in a scene that uncannily adumbrates the future demise of her career.
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What you've here adumbrated is why I have my bedside clock-radio set to wake me to the Today programme.
Boaden Beats Her Own World Record
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Nearly two and a half centuries after the Declaration of Independence, the grievances it adumbrated are belatedly coming true—but in Britain, rather than in North America.
A Letter to America
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(Reading across texts for a moment, this idea has been adumbrated in Kundera's earlier book Laughable Loves ).
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Like any short introduction, it does not have time to say very much, but what it does say is enough to adumbrate the major ideas to follow.
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In doing so he may, adventitiously, throw light on something more interesting than the past; he may adumbrate the outline of the coming movement.
Since Cézanne
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As to 5: The answer is plainly ‘Yes’ and for the reasons already adumbrated.
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Congratulations: This is the first time that I have encountered the word 'adumbrated' in print.
Undefined
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Both the existing legislation on racism, and that adumbrated by the prime minister on the ‘preachers of hate’, have an illiberal potential - that is, they do restrict freedom of expression.
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… Every time he closed his eyes, her adumbrated silhouette burnt with inedible precision into his retina, bought back the pain he was trying to run from.
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Some of the matters I have already adumbrated seem to me to bear upon that.
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Too, the tone in which the survival and natural selection principles are adumbrated is obviously naturalistic.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction
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This latter course, in fact, is already adumbrated at certain junctures in the Opus Postumum.
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An introduction sketches the book's key terms and thereby adumbrates its themes, especially the principal pair of beauty and the infinite.
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Nelson Hilton and David Erdman's prescient but brief remarks aside, the only contributor to engage reproduction with any intensity was John Grant, who, to his credit, adumbrated something not unlike the William Blake Archive in scale, comprehensiveness, and image-intensiveness.
Introduction
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Here then, already adumbrated, is the double emphasis on heaven and home, or on home as heaven.
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These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.
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In long passages both bawdy and fantastic, we are shown how the feminine principle makes nonsense of all forms of statecraft, including even the cleverest ones adumbrated in The Prince, and how the distance between the boudoir and the bordello or zenana or harem is disconcertingly short.
Cassocks and Codpieces
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The women of his own race and place had never adumbrated such a possibility.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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The recent development adumbrate a world - wide revolution in computer technology.
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Or, a lion adumbrated, debruised by two bendlets azure, all within a bordure compony argent and gules.
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One of those dead afternoons, adumbrated, slumberous: not a customer in view.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Consciousness does not perspectivally adumbrate itself.
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The recent development adumbrate a world - wide revolution in computer technology.
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To that person is reserved the pleasure of fathoming the intention, of completing the idea adumbrated by the composer.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
