prefiguration

How To Use prefiguration In A Sentence

• a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• Much like Pentecostalism is for Christianity, Islamism is a way station, a prefiguration of things to come. Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future
• The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527 – 35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest. The Men Who Made England
• Benedict XVI continued, saying that from the cross, Jesus sees his Mother and the beloved apostle, a very important individual, but more important he is a prefiguration of all loved people, all the disciples and especially all priests. Liturgy
• Prefiguration and 'post-figuration' are equally important in a novel whose nominal author we encounter as a dead soul. The Times Literary Supplement
• One could view such Pentecostal sectarian movements as prefigurations of contemporary developments.
• I did, however, share a plane with Aaron Eckhart, and even though he's not exactly a superstar (at least not yet), the hard-working actor proved a fitting prefiguration to my trip. Morris Ruskin: My Toronto Film Festival
• He found it in the classicized expressionism of the "New Objectivity," an approach he helped create and promulgate, even beyond Germany's borders (and a phenomenon about which we in America are still too little apprised, even despite its influence on some of our favorite artists - look at Dix's own prefiguration of such popular latter-day artists as Lucien Freud and H.C. Westermann). Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Dix's Mix (No Quick Fix)
• The ‘cumulative effect’ Carter speaks of is prefiguration.
• And here, too, is a prefiguration of Barack Obama, who made his career by insisting that there are no red states and blue states, only the United States. ‘On Whitman’: The Real American