prefigure

How To Use prefigure In A Sentence

• The innocent Abel prefigured Christ, while Cain prefigured the deicidal Jews, his fratricide the first of their many acts of perfidy against God and his prophets. Undefined
• There are several parts of this book that prefigure portions of his later work.
• World War I followed on the heels of the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, which prefigured not only the subsequent atrocities of the twentieth century but its fraternal violence. Bloodlust
• A favorite of the great Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik, St Wenceslas prefigures late twentieth century minimalism with its repetitive chorale theme and luminous string figurations.
• Kraus, who says the Times' op-ed page "prefigured" the blogosphere by three decades by inviting non-staffers to submit content, figured the op-ed editor Charlotte Curtis would allow Levine's drawing, because it was not nearly as critical as Pfaff's copy. Menachem Wecker: Kissinger Controversy Recalls Provocative Art Piece
• The passage from St. Augustine uncannily prefigures the couplet of Hafiz which I quoted above.
• But even the most cynical observers could not easily have looked ahead one year and have prefigured a scenario by which conditions in the district that had won this legal victory would actually get worse.
• The paintings of Paul Cezanne prefigured the rise of cubism in the early 20th century.
• It was prefigured by earlier productions in 1911 and 1916.
• This visit may prefigure an improvement in relations between the two countries.