adumbrating

Let me close, then, by adumbrating one particularly forceful instance of anti-Liberal and anti-progressive thinking, namely,

The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008

(The incomparable Jenny Diski wondered: "He may have been adumbrating not advocating, but is there another way to describe patronising and smug?")

Emma Garman: A Competition in Alpha-Male Condescension 2008

But I'll take a shot at adumbrating what Santa Teresa cheese is like.

Archive 2008-02-01 AYDIN 2008

But I'll take a shot at adumbrating what Santa Teresa cheese is like.

Holy cheese! AYDIN 2008

Few can equal him in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and insignificant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and the abnormal in connection with regions or buildings.

William Hope Hodgson Divers 2008

So far, critics have pretty much confined themselves either to discovering its various antecedents (besides the obvious Dunsany tales "Idle Days on the Yann" and "Time and the Gods" again) or adumbrating on its main (and equally obvious) theme.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

Television cameramen closed in unrelentlessly on Andre's mask of anguish, adumbrating the end of a great career on the courts.

Nothing's Forever On Wall StreetWhere's Goldilocks? Martin T. Sosnoff 2006

As a rural policeman, not a big-city detective, he was not used to prospective prisoners arguing so eloquently and adumbrating pictures of potential disaster that infiltrated his stomach with butterflies.

Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

In three centuries, already some outline has been sketched, rudely adumbrating the future settlement destined for the planet, some infant castrametation has been marked out for the future encampment of nations.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

For now they were all very full of the approaching constitutional crisis, and were adumbrating in respectful, yet slightly menacing terms, what the King himself would do in the matter.

King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912