prefigure

"Her plays always seem to prefigure the next important debate."

Something about these activities prefigures much of what is going on today in the bike community.

In a subtle way the books even prefigured the spirit of the 60's.

Nothing in myth or fiction had really prefigured the truth.

The genre was prefigured by the works of the Romantic movement.

As you'll note, they prefigure the arrest warrant by two hours.

He only said this in his anger, but it prefigured a possible course of action and attitude well enough.

The work was made quickly, which prefigured the concerns of the Impressionists.

A shop girl was the destiny prefigured for the newcomer.

In a way, it prefigures what will happen to the show's main underclass characters.

In a sense, the entire movie is prefigured in this scene.

Do Kevin's actions spring from nowhere, or are they somehow prefigured?

No one in that merry crowd of Carmel had prefigured him.

In a way that solo prefigured an entire career.

And the audience got a chance to hear old avant-garde compositions that prefigured a future now past.

Nietzsche's achievement is rather to have prefigured so much of twentieth-century thought.

It prefigures the more famous treatment of this difference in Sonnet 29.

These angularities prefigured a whole later era of modern dance.

I had prefigured to myself a very different personage.

Taken in 1941, they prefigure images of the civil rights movement more than a decade in the future.

In a sense, the financial background of my mother's treatment prefigured the world Meier was describing.

Prefigured by the form of my previous work.

His career it would be difficult to prefigure.

Though these wonder chambers ultimately gave way to early museums, they also prefigure the personal computer and the Internet, she said.

"We've lived through so many of these events, we can prefigure some of the possible scenarios."