prefiguration
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And the “Laudamus Te,” with its insistent back-and-forth reiteration of the simplest consonant harmonies, sounds like a prefiguration of Virgil Thomson’s “Four Saints in Three Acts.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
It’s a prefiguration — of how to think, how to collaborate, and how to stay sane when the private is gone.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Since the early 20th century, Cycladic figures have had iconic power for contemporary artists, as an ancient prefiguration of abstraction.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
“I wouldn’t say it’s a prefiguration of Romanticism; it is already Romantic. Rather, he goes straight to contemporary music, straight to Alban Berg.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
By the way, this writer, like ourselves, reads in this juvenile adventure a prefiguration of Pope's satirical destiny.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
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