adumbration
Example Sentences
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The New York Times called it “an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and ‘Peyton Place’ adumbrations in which five women are involved with their assorted egotistical aspirations, love affairs and Seconal pills.”
From Los Angeles Times
I had distinct memories of my life before my father became sick, but the person I was seemed like a rose-coloured adumbration of my present self.
From The Guardian
“It’s an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and ‘Peyton Place’ adumbrations in which five women are involved with their assorted egotistical aspirations, love affairs and Seconal pills,” he wrote.
From New York Times
On the evolutionist interpretation this is an adumbration of the actual genealogical tree or Stammbaum.
From Project Gutenberg
Here has been seen an adumbration of natural selection: he himself admits the difficulty he has in making it clear.
From Project Gutenberg
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