prefigure

1 A name change wasn't in the original brief, but Gray convinced British Railways that "British Rail" was catchier – a move that prefigured the more interventionist role that design agencies play these days.

2 Built in the 1620s, and the only surviving bit of the great, lost palace of Whitehall, the Banqueting House prefigures all those later, classical, Georgian museums and terraces and government buildings.

3 Part of the secret world of my childhood, that map prefigured a far more unnerving and oppositional future than I could have imagined. 

4 “To let the baby out,” she writes, prefiguring Christle’s riff on decomposition, and also making it painfully literal, “you have to be willing to go to pieces.”

5 Emerson’s fellow Transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau, prefigured today’s hiker-hunter cultural split.

6 The paintings of Paul Ce & 1 & zanne prefigured the rise of cubism in the early 20 th century.

保罗·塞尚的绘画预示了20世纪初叶立体主义的兴起.

7 Satie’s music, known for a hypnotic aural pointillism that prefigured minimalism, is today ubiquitous on film and television soundtracks.

8 My favorite of the segments I’ve seen, the one featuring Miranda July in a set of visionary projects and performances that both prefigure and inform her own movies, isn’t online yet.

9 “Harvey” prefigures the wave of countercultural movies in the 1960s that would turn truth-telling kooks into an overused conceit, but Chase got there first, and she doesn’t push the philosophizing down our throats.

10 His work’s intimate yet critical relationship with pop culture in many ways prefigured the rise of social media, and the development of a meme culture built on manipulating and remixing images.

11 A wine stain on a tablecloth prefigures a bloody bedsheet; teenagers twirling around subway poles are echoed by strippers in a later scene.

12 McCarthy was elected speaker on the fifteenth and final vote, prefiguring a tumultuous time in office.

13 To her mind, this was no accident, given the way songs like "Androgyny" prefigured thinking about gender more than 20 years later.

14 This ad explained that the arrival of this new medium meant politics was “for everybody” rather than just “the big folks,” ad copy that prefigures today’s talk of the 99 percent.

15 The creepy hypnosis scenes prefigure the psychedelic paranoia of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner: the angry press conference bears a sense memory of the Nixon-Kennedy TV debate.

16 In their elegance his drawings, particularly those in coloured chalk, prefigure those of Watteau, another artist who loved the profil perdu – the turned cheek.

17 Inspired by a friend's memories of the far east, the Suite is a study in Orientalist sensuality, with a knock-out nocturne at its centre, orchestrated in a manner that prefigures Messiaen.

18 He was 50 years old at the start of 1932, and the previous Christmas he’d painted a brace of pictures, on view in a prologue here, that prefigure the dreamlike, indulgent, violent year to come.

19 “The Cat’s Table” prefigures its narrator’s adult life through a series of shipboard adventures and revelations.

20 In a bitter prefiguring of more recent employment practices, the press knew who was to be sacked before the actors.

1 想像

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2 预兆

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3 揣测

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4 预示

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5 设想

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6 预表

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7 预想

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8 预见

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9 预言

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