futurity
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In doing so, Autje and Neitje firmly establish themselves on the fulcrum of a new futurity — unfamiliar, uncertain, and irresistible.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2023
In my own scholarship and writing, I’m building up these ideas in ways that feed into conversations within Black feminism, Black studies, Afrofuturism, and debates about our shared history and futurity.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
Presented in tense, terse fragments of scenes, these meetings bring to mind an idea of futurity posed by the Black feminist scholar Tina Campt: “a performance of a future that hasn’t happened but must.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
She ran to her strong 12.3 second gate drill in sharp runnerup debut in fast 300-yard dash vs. winner dropping down from a futurity trial while 1 ¾ lengths clear of the third horse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019
For a moment, we gaped at the imminent futurity of it.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
At events called futurities, the bulls could now compete directly against one another, carrying dummy cowboys on their backs while judges rated their bucking ability.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
If all went well, the bull would get sent to thirty-five or forty rodeos a year, earning five to ten thousand in fees and up to a hundred thousand in futurities and other winnings.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
If denial such as brands my brow Be in your heavenly regions, too, confessed, Oh may it prove the truth that your still eyes Foresee the end of all futurities!
From Along the Shore by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
It appears that Epicurus, to preserve freedom and to avoid an absolute necessity, maintained, after Aristotle, that contingent futurities were not susceptible of determinate truth.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
After all the others had turned in for the night Handy remained on deck cogitating over his plans and perplexing his brain over approaching futurities.
From A Pirate of Parts by Richard Neville
