adumbration

As breezily self-confident as its eponymous heroine, “Catherine Called Birdy” crucially departs from the original text in the film’s final act, a paean to female independence and an adumbration of the change about to take place with the rise of the Renaissance.

Might his house of worship turn out to be, as Ms. Ozick put it, “the truly-revealed Invisible Church, an adumbration of the divine intention? When the Redeemer is called on only to help a man make a living, does he make a life instead? Buechner implies yes.”

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.

Critchley’s most bracing commentary may be that on Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon’s 2006 film “Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait,” about the French star: “On the one hand, it gives us a sense of the capture of reality by commodified images in the century into which we have slowly slouched our way. But on the other hand … there is the suggestion, the adumbration of an inaccessible interiority, a reality that resists commodification.”

The overwhelming majority of the 533 ideas in Works never went further than adumbration and collection in this strangely interminable little book.