adumbration

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.”

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.

“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.

On the evolutionist interpretation this is an adumbration of the actual genealogical tree or Stammbaum.

Here has been seen an adumbration of natural selection: he himself admits the difficulty he has in making it clear.