adumbrate

His photographs have used a variety of techniques to adumbrate this world.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2017

Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But as soon as you adumbrate thus, you are beset with misgivings.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016

Together with the bare facts of the retreat at Walden, those lines have become the ones by which we adumbrate Thoreau, so that our image of the man has also become simplified and inspirational.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

The choice of adverb is peculiarly pregnant, contriving as it does simultaneously to affirm faith and to adumbrate doubt.

From Time Magazine Archive

But since this picture has to set forth mysteries seen and heard by none, the revelation itself, like S. John's Apocalypse, is conveyed in symbols fashioned to adumbrate the truths perceived by faith.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now, while we are shown that the moral sense doctrine in its original form is not true, we are also shown that it adumbrates a truth, and a much higher truth.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

There is not one of them that adumbrates a theory that can be called a theory of Progress.

From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury

The figure of the villain, too, adumbrates, though faintly, the type which engaged Hawthorne's mind in later years.

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry

Passages of the original work underlined and adumbrated with exclamation marks and double or even treble question marks; phrases scored out and notes running down the margin at right angles to the printed text.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020

In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2019

His work on neuroscience and his initial support of McCulloch and Pitts adumbrated the startlingly effective deep-learning methods of the present day.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019

But while lauding the rights and privileges of the Americans he observed, Tocqueville also adumbrated the responsibilities that came with being an American citizen.

From Time ● Nov. 2, 2016

He adumbrated peace before Christmas, and believed that a world-war would end war.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell

The filmmakers build to this moment as if it were D-Day or the Rumble in the Jungle, excavating a biographical Before and adumbrating a news media After.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2015

In Wisconsin last week, Nixon gave a paid, 20-minute nationwide radio speech adumbrating a broad and basically moderate approach to the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

There only, they implied, could something adumbrating a sacred ritual and a spiritual consolation be preserved.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

In three centuries, already some outline has been sketched, rudely adumbrating the future settlement destined for the planet, some infant castrametation has been marked out for the future encampment of nations.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

"Did you notice Mr. Boldwood's doings in church this morning, miss?"Liddy continued, adumbrating by the remark the track her thoughts had taken.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy