How To Use Prefigure In A Sentence
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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.
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There are several parts of this book that prefigure portions of his later work.
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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
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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.
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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
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The passage from St. Augustine uncannily prefigures the couplet of Hafiz which I quoted above.
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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.
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The paintings of Paul Cezanne prefigured the rise of cubism in the early 20th century.
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It was prefigured by earlier productions in 1911 and 1916.
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This visit may prefigure an improvement in relations between the two countries.
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Byron is a crucial figure in Inglis's narrative, partly because his antics above and below tables prefigured those of today's footballers and US presidents, and partly because his aggrandisement of passion is an important milestone in a lineage of emotion traced from the 18th century to the present.
A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis
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For Augustine, the murder that founded the first earthly city prefigured another misdeed, the founding of Rome.
Bloodlust
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In a passage often commented upon, Thucydides wrote of the seesaw battle in Corcyra Corfu in 433 BCE, which prefigured the larger war.
Bloodlust
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No review could do complete justice to the magnificent two-volume biography that has been so well-wrought by Michael Burlingame, but one way of paying tribute to it is to say that it introduces the elusive idea of destiny from the very start, and one means of illustrating this is to show how the earlier chapters continually prefigure, or body forth, the more momentous events that are to be dealt with in the later ones.
Lincoln’s Emancipation
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The black church's historic role in providing education, social services, and a safe gathering place prefigured its historic role in the civil rights movement.
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This moment prefigures the climactic reunion at the church meeting; it includes the same kind of call and response.
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But what good is that if the struggles over parades are prefigured to continue endlessly, and to twist and inflame ordinary people endlessly.
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Mr. Fumaroli agrees: The courtly way of life is his maquette for the spread of human happiness he never mentions that you had to have the standing and the old money to enjoy it: "Elegance, politesse and a new sweetness of manners . . . prefigured a world in which each man's freedom could accommodate the equality of all.
Why They All Came to Versailles
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With hindsight, when the 2000 election became the closest ever, the Florida shenanigans seemed prefigured in that sniggering expression, which less became the 43rd president than Alfred E.
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This visit may prefigure an improvement in relations between the two countries.
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Not only did the band's name prefigure the attacks, but so did the album's elegiac art work of angels tracing empyrean paths to a fiery orange heaven.
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The Devil's Walk: A Ballad" again addresses, this time much more overtly, the older generation of poetic turncoats: it parodies Southey's and Coleridge's jointly written "The Devil's Thoughts" of 1799 in ways that are quite different from and yet prefigure Shelley's masterpiece in this mode, the brilliant burlesquing of Wordsworth in Peter Bell the Third.
Young Shelley
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It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured
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Snatches of conversation, remembered precepts, and prefigured cries of terror bombinate about his skull.
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But since the ark or tebah only appears again in Exodus in connection with Moses, it would seem that Moses is prefigured here.
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The debates in 1991 prefigured similar debates in 2003, with the difference that they were more openly contested in 1991, but suppressed by "group-think" in 2003.
Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II
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His paintings prefigure the development of perspective in Renaissance art.
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Yet it contains an important truth - that the style and tone of a government are set early and do prefigure future actions.
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For God hath abrogated his own (not only such as prefigured
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Her sense of loss is literally written on her skin at the beginning of the film, as prefigured in the image of her writing on her abdomen with a black marker pen.
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The dialectic between actual ego and ego-ideal is prefigured here in primordial form.
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She is excited too, though, of course, by the sudden flash of orange on the corner of a painting made in Brittany that prefigures his gorgeous, haunted Tahitian palette, or by the insistent presence, on a table, of Gauguin's own beer mug, a sturdy Scandinavian vessel that looks like it holds three pints, and which features in a curious and estranging portrait of his sleeping daughter.
Gauguin at Tate Modern: the making of a blockbuster show
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Tarkovsky sublimely prefigures space exploration with a five minute sequence of cars winding through the tunnels and overpasses of a modern Russian city.
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Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the extraordinary Alexis Soyer is that, while he too fashioned himself a man of letters, he would also transcend the constraints of this literary model and, far ahead of his time, prefigure the flamboyant personas of today's celebrity chefs.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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The first note, F, sung by the tenor in bars 1 and 2, in this instance personifying the final note of the chanson's tenor, prefigures the opening F of the cantus firmus in bar 15 of the Credo.
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His theory of place and time as defining structures of the mind anticipates Kant, his dialectical reasoning prefigures Hegel.
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His paintings prefigure the development of perspective in Renaissance art.
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However, some panels clearly prefigure his style in later comics like Sin City.
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It's really a dark piece of work, pretty much driven by Mozart's guilt over his father's death; in a lot of ways, I think it prefigures his requiem mass; a big, black truckload of woe.
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The travelogue prefigures his style - limpid narrative, minute detailing, wide-ranging, seamlessly fitting intertextual references, snatches of reverie, bursts of humour.
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The paintings of Paul Cezanne prefigured the rise of cubism in the early 20th century.
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Any novel of Nazi Germany or fascist Italy is prefigured in miniature in Stendhal's "Charterhouse of Parma.
In the World of Night and Fog
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It's really a dark piece of work, pretty much driven by Mozart's guilt over his father's death; in a lot of ways, I think it prefigures his requiem mass.
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The opening of the Sonata's first movement, for example, blends serialism and passacaglia in a way prefigured in the opera's final scene.
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n. - object or person prefigured by the type or symbol. antitypic, antitypical,
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Mead describes human existence as evolving toward an open future that cannot be prefigured with any finality.
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Leinweber discusses the development of beliefs about sorcerers and female vampires (lamiae) in Greek and Roman texts through Apuleius and shows how they prefigured modern witchcraft and vampire legends.
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I love "Leda and the Swan" as a teaching poem; it's devastating, especially the implication that the violence of the rape prefigures and almost predestines the violence of the Trojan War.
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Yet his opposition to racism won him strong support among northern free blacks, particularly in New England, and in this respect his activities prefigured the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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Dub music prefigured the dance remix, with fewer vocals and layers of bass-heavy echo and reverb, giving the MC more room to chat over records.
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Such a context would also help to explain the emphasis put on the book, and might encourage us to speculate whether the Liber Domini was meant to prefigure the necrologies or liber vitae manuscripts.
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These early paintings clearly prefigure his later work.
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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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The apes battering an ape to death at the waterhole prefigures a scene when Alex and his droogs beat up a bum in an alley with clubs.
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Edna O'Brien talks about how her new book, Wild Decembers — in which heartache is prefigured by a tractor — fits in with her own "inner gnaw.
On Fiction
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There are also letters on the spine of each book; these letters do not indicate or prefigure what the pages will say.
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The specters of estrangement and death that shadow these canvases prefigure both Spero's later, more graphically distinct and explicitly political friezelike paintings and the works of younger artists with similarly haunted preoccupations, such as
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Essentially a police procedural, the film prefigures the luridness of Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" (1960) and Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" (1972), but it's much closer in spirit to Otto Preminger's "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (1965).
Lessons Without Lectures
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As a frontispiece, the book reproduces a plate by Albrecht Durer from his 1498 Apocalypse of Saint John, in which the picture of a book prefigures millennial revelations.
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Christ's death is represented as the sacrifice for sin prefigured by the Jewish sacrifices, compare Ro 3: 22-26; 1Co 5: 7, with
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The thrilling flyby of the ring system that Cassini-Huygens will accomplish following Saturn Orbit Insertion prefigures the exciting encounters that are to come in the four-year mission.
