foretastes

But Metcalf also promises foretastes of what is to come in future festivals too, with new works by Mark Bowden and Paul Mealor, as well as music by Per Nørgård and Qigang Chen in the lineup.

This week's new live music 2011

The Bush administration, and the concurrent lack of a real opposition party, are merely bitter foretastes of the blatancy these tendencies must eventually achieve.

Capitalism as the Engine of Global Crisis 2008

If we learn to approach the real pleasures and triumphs of life as mere foretastes of eternity, as ready to surrender them as to enjoy them, then they won't get in the way of our dying before we die.

Archive 2006-04-01 Mike L 2006

But I find it too easy, almost natural, to become so immersed in that reality that I lose sight of the small consolations and foretastes of glory that ordinary life also offers.

Archive 2006-04-01 Mike L 2006

If we learn to approach the real pleasures and triumphs of life as mere foretastes of eternity, as ready to surrender them as to enjoy them, then they won't get in the way of our dying before we die.

Palm Sunday homiletics Mike L 2006

Then turning towards us, who were lost in speechless sorrow — O dear, dear gentlemen, said she, you know not what foretastes — what assurances — And there she again stopped, and looked up, as if in a thankful rapture, sweetly smiling.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

But I find it too easy, almost natural, to become so immersed in that reality that I lose sight of the small consolations and foretastes of glory that ordinary life also offers.

Life is war Mike L 2006

Back in 1986, they hadn't even sprouted much coral yet, and so were without blue lagoons and white beaches, amenities many human beings used to regard as foretastes of an ideal afterlife.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

As, therefore, we would continually tend towards our rest and blessedness, as we would have assured and evident pledges of it in our own souls, as we would have foretastes of it and an experimental acquaintance with it, (as who would not know as much as is possible of his eternal blessedness?) this is the design which we ought to pursue.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

We can long for it, pant after it, and have some foretastes of it, -- namely, of that state and season wherein our whole souls, in all their powers and faculties, shall constantly, inseparably, eternally cleave by love unto whole

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965