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Example sentences for "foreshadows"

Lexicographically close words:
foresees; foreshadow; foreshadowed; foreshadowing; foreshadowings; foresheet; foreshew; foreshewed; foreshewn; foreshore
  1. The study of God must be prosecuted through the study of astronomy, and this the old prophet foreshadows clearly: "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

  2. A man with one arm opens the first iron gate--his mutilated body foreshadows the mutilated minds and souls within.

  3. The opening Præludium foreshadows the composer's later regard for significance of expression, for it bears an explanatory quotation from Byron's Manfred.

  4. The broadness of the chord writing, together with the general tone of the piece as a whole, seems to call for orchestral colouring and foreshadows MacDowell's most advanced period.

  5. It is an advance on the preceding small pieces for pianoforte, and foreshadows the later MacDowell of inimitable poetic suggestion in music.

  6. This scheme thus foreshadows the choral finale of the 9th symphony even more significantly than the Choral Fantasia.

  7. The little scherzo no less clearly foreshadows the new era in music by the fact that in so small and light a movement a modulation from A to G sharp minor can occur too naturally to excite surprise.

  8. In the great utterances of Isaiah the prophetic voice rises to a pitch of splendid anticipation and foreshadows the whole earth united and at peace under one God.

  9. It foreshadows the development of human societies of which we shall soon be telling.

  10. Such a transition foreshadows the passing of syphilis.

  11. There is still a good deal of uncertainty as to just what the distribution of the germs which takes place in the secondary period foreshadows in the way of prospects for trouble when we come to the tertiary period.

  12. The course of such a person as Mr. Rives, who is said to be conservative, foreshadows the result.

  13. The chronicler, perhaps unconsciously already foreshadows the coming of the hour when men should worship the Father neither in the holy mountain of Samaria nor yet in Jerusalem.

  14. This foreshadows the reverence of modern science for experience, its anxiety to base its laws and theories upon observation of what has actually occurred.

  15. The Paebrotherium, a small animal about two feet long, is followed by Pliauchenia, which points toward the llamas and vicunas, and Procamelus, which clearly foreshadows the true camel.

  16. We then presently find this generalised Ungulate branching into three types, one of which seems to be a patriarchal tapir, the second is regarded as a very remote ancestor of the horse, and the third foreshadows the rhinoceros.

  17. The English poet foreshadows him, when he pictures “one in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

  18. It foreshadows the character-contrasts in the play and the conflict between the state and the individual.

  19. The supreme characters are introduced, and in their opening speeches each reveals his temperament and foreshadows the part which he will play.

  20. Latin although it is, foreshadows the future developments of German poetry.

  21. This foreshadows that fierce stream of fatality in which he proved powerless to the end.

  22. It is worth noting that in his Exercitationes anatomicae de motu cordis (1628) there is a passage which dimly foreshadows the law of recapitulation in development which later had so much vogue.

  23. It was an actual solemnity to be observed by Israel, but it was also a type of what is yet to be when all that great and glorious work which this chapter foreshadows shall have been accomplished.

  24. It has been said that the choice of perceptions from among images in general is the effect of a "discernment" which foreshadows spirit.

  25. This French thinker, Ravaisson, has had an important influence on the general development of thought in France during the latter half of the last century, and much of his work foreshadows Bergson's thought.

  26. None of these Lyrics foreshadows Abt Vogler and Hugues of Saxe-Gotha as the Pictor foreshadows Lippi and Del Sarto.

  27. Nevertheless, the victory of love over political interest which the motto foreshadows is not accomplished without those subtle fluctuations and surprises which habitually mark the conduct of Browning's plots.

  28. This letter foreshadows the turning point in John Brown's career.

  29. It also foreshadows the action the Southern States would surely take, if the Kansas decision declared against them.

  30. Richard comes forward naïvely in the character of Prologue, and foreshadows the matter of the tragedy.

  31. It seems as if these words were ringing in his ears; and this foreshadows the mysterious bond between him and the Witches.

  32. When found heavily marked, and only joining the Heart and Head Lines together, it foreshadows brain-fever, especially when any islands are marked on the Line of Head.

  33. When the line, which is otherwise well marked, appears about the centre to break in two, it foreshadows a fatality or break-up in an otherwise happy married life.

  34. When low down on this Mount it foreshadows death by drowning.

  35. If many of these islands are marked it generally foreshadows a still greater tendency to blindness and weakness of the sight.

  36. So that on either side of his work he foreshadows the advent of the two great schools of modern political thought.

  37. Nestor makes the immediate Return, without conflict, through Greece, but he points directly to Menelaus, and foreshadows the coming of Ulysses.

  38. They will perish, is the decree; thus we behold at the beginning of the poem an image which foreshadows the end.


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