How To Use Foreshadowing In A Sentence

  • Who needs six minutes worth of foreshadowing, ambient noise and one-chord riffing when you could surge straight into a noise as glorious as this?
  • I personally believe the gods used the most favored people from the Mediterreanean and western Europe to accomplish this goal that was the Holocaust for multiple purposes::::::: Defiance clue, acted as desensitizer, foreshadowing, disposed of Jewish-European clue, etc. Saturday morning rant (story v language)
  • The nation-wide railway strike of 1974 was repressed violently, foreshadowing things to come the following year.
  • Shopkeepers board up their windows, plastic bags tumble across the road, a few warning drops smatter the ground foreshadowing the deluge sure to follow. First Rains « Cameroon
  • That's called 'cryptic foreshadowing,' " Ashley gasped. The Horror Movie That Was Only in My Head
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  • While I don't share in idolizing the book by so many horror fans, I would be a fool not to recognize a quality piece of storytelling when I see it The foreshadowing is so expertly laid out the book deserves to be read solely to examine that. Rabid Reads: "Ghost Story" by Peter Straub
  • Too much foreshadowing, or am I just overanalyzing? Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Marie Clairvoyance
  • In an ironic foreshadowing of a pivotal courtroom scene that will put Janie at the mercy of human vultures, the hungry buzzards focus on the ‘yaller’ mule.
  • The first time I experienced being "uptight" was in tenth grade, when my older sister (a college sophomore) took me and my three girlfriends to see "Grease" at the Wang Center in Boston (wang! foreshadowing!) Giulia Rozzi: Nicola Briggs Is My Kinda Gal
  • I guess since the Samfans have started their whining, I may as well air a concern as well ... given that a large number of episodes this season have had the theme "Monsters are only bad because hunters are mean and force them to do bad things", is this foreshadowing that the blame for Sam's "darkside" fall (such as it is, and it hasn't been much darker than ecru thus far) is gonna be dumped on Dean ... the "mean", "racist" hunter in his life? Undefined
  • ‘It was a foreshadowing of heaven, a foretaste of the splendours that were to come,’ says Sarah.
  • At this foreshadowing of a desolate decease, the wicked old boy would whine and whimper, and would sit shaking himself into the lowest of low spirits, until such time as he could shake himself out of the house and shake another threepennyworth into himself. Our Mutual Friend
  • Let it slide even if I say that I'm completely certain that the fancy dress ball foreshadowing is all in your head, because RTD would never do something that lame. Donna, Donna, Donna Noble...the noble lady...
  • It becomes clear why it was necessary not to encumber the reader with foreshadowing the ending too soon.
  • Whether or not such foreshadowing is there in DHSGiT is a question for someone who's played it to answer. Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls
  • Nuance and foreshadowing and metaphor and symbolism and repetition are all pivotally important to any diagnostician. Kevin Patterson - An interview with author
  • Foreshadowing the events of the coming French Revolution, Sébastien wrote, ‘The people in this faubourg are meaner, more volatile, more quarrelsome and more ready to mutiny than in any of the other quarters [of Paris].’
  • This foreshadowing of the Messiah's coming brought a hoarse howl from the Sticks as they leaped to their feet. The Sun of the Wolf
  • While trying to rid herself of the aforementioned insects, the Flashing Neon Foreshadowing kicks in, and Laura "lay a bruised and bleeding mass of humanity in the darksome depth of the old disused quarry, where her victim, the palefaced girl, had stood and shuddered, as she thought of the horror of a fall into that dreadful darkness! Scattered Musings
  • They are looked at, moreover, horizontally, not as singular, iconic buildings but as building complexes, foreshadowing Banham's interest in megastructures.
  • The sky was a dark blood red that night almost as if foreshadowing the events to come.
  • The ink smearing is evident foreshadowing of her death, but also of what else is to come.
  • We have seen again and again in modern U.S. politics that to create a compelling narrative of any candidate's major character flaws, his opponents or the media need to find early hints of that flaw, what I call the quest for foreshadowing (see below). Joseph Romm: Obama or 527s Must Tell Keating Five Story
  • So the Clinton administration, again foreshadowing what was to come, put together $40 billion in loan guarantees from the International Monetary Fund and Treasury. Inside Man
  • As in the case of sexual propagation, so in that of karyokinesis, processes which are common to all the Metazoa are not wholly without their foreshadowings in the Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
  • One of the ways in which this foreshadowing of Agnes's death is expressed in the poem is through the swan imagery so deeply embedded in the poem's figural texture.
  • Of course to do it really well there should be some foreshadowing, but if done really well the foreshadowing is there but not noticed on the first play through. Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls
  • Or, as in the Brezhnev period, they were so emendated in a cretinized two-volume edition of Tkachev's works (in whose introduction the Soviet editors also criticized me and my book on Tkachev ” the first in English about him) as to be unrecognizable ” either as essential Tkachevism or as examples of proto-Bolshevism foreshadowing Lenin's ideology. Lenin & 'The Radiant Future'
  • Tempter," answered Redlaw, "whose hollow look and voice I dread more than words can express, and from whom some dim foreshadowing of greater fear is stealing over me while I speak, I hear again an echo of my own mind. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
  • (Upon second viewing, all of this foreshadowing is vomitous.) Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap
  • (Upon second viewing, all of this foreshadowing is vomitous.) Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap
  • While in Plato there is the foreshadowing of the truth that the goal of moral endeavour lies in godlikeness, with Aristotle the goal is confined to this life and is conceived simply as the earthly well-being of the moral subject. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
  • Foreshadowing email, they made informal, asynchronous communication with your co-workers a major part of modern office life.
  • Most of us can probably immediately recall the fleshy covers -- a pregnant Demi Moore on Vanity Fair, a topless Janet Jackson (foreshadowing, anyone?) on Rolling Stone, the bare and pseudo-tattooed Dixie Chicks on Entertainment Weekly -- that succeeded in generating some buzz. 'True Blood' stars get naked for Rolling Stone
  • Just as little girls, instinctively foreshadowing motherhood, play with dolls, so children feel vague sex promptings, and in sweetly ridiculous ways love and quarrel and make up after the approved fashion of lovers. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • This episode carries a foreshadowing of what is to follow later on in the story.
  • What we see in the process of fecundation is a foreshadowing of the future man and woman. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • Now, a history lesson's useful enough if you're unfamiliar with the toxic atmosphere in Washington DC as the civil war ended, or if you go along with the story's foreshadowing of contemporary issues like military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay and the poisoned American polity of then and now, but as drama it entirely lacks a pulse or a soul or any of the qualities that we commonly associate with the term "balls". The Conspirator proves that Robert Redford should stick to Sundance
  • After all, what Hollywood screenwriter would spend half an hour foreshadowing an event that never arrives?
  • These works lasted until 2004 and were potential foreshadowing for the creation of Mermaid Series.
  • The legitimacy is not in question, but the adumbration, or foreshadowing, is.
  • Well, so far (3 DVDs in, 11 episodes) it seems to be a guys in mech suits (although mechs which have a very small independent power supply and must get their power from an umbilical cord attached to a power source) show, with some heavy duty spiritual foreshadowing. Got Anime?
  • ‘It was a foreshadowing of heaven, a foretaste of the splendours that were to come,’ says Sarah.
  • Major resentments in the fleet flare up without the need for groundwork or foreshadowing, and go silent with equal abruptness. MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica
  • Everywhere unshowy symmetries, foreshadowings and intimations elegantly shape the book. Times, Sunday Times
  • The foreshadowing is hardly subtle: the sacrifice of an innocent life for the sake of salvation. 'Shack' opens doors, but critics call book 'scripturally incorrect'
  • Everywhere unshowy symmetries, foreshadowings and intimations elegantly shape the book. Times, Sunday Times
  • Going yet further, because events in the Old Testament are read as foreshadowing parts of the life of Christ, Noah prefigures Christ.

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