prefigurements

Then, presumably, the sexual bodies imagined by romantic fiction would become valuable prehistory to our modern paradigms; no longer either legitimate or illegitimate aesthetic representations, they would instead become both imaginative prefigurements of our lived realities and historical records of the evolving conflicts between private acts and the public domain that sought at once to express and control those acts.

'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire' 2006

Then, presumably, the sexual bodies imagined by romantic fiction would become valuable prehistory to our modern paradigms; no longer either legitimate or illegitimate aesthetic representations, they would instead become both imaginative prefigurements of our lived realities and historical records of the evolving conflicts between private acts and the public domain that sought at once to express and control those acts.

How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006

In an ironic and almost comical twist, the imperialism, corporatism, and prefigurements of fascism he has so accurately identified (and vowed to eradicate) are symptoms of monopoly capitalism, a mature form of the system that his libertarian principles would serve to buttress and amplify.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: RON PAUL IN 2008? JUST SAY "NO" TO "DR. NO" 2007

While we are not there yet, we are certainly experiencing the prefigurements of “capitalism in decay.”

Institutionalized Glorification of our Greed and Gluttony: Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist 2007

In an ironic and almost comical twist, the imperialism, corporatism, and prefigurements of fascism he has so accurately identified (and vowed to eradicate) are symptoms of monopoly capitalism, a mature form of the system that his libertarian principles would serve to buttress and amplify. '

OpEdNews - Quicklink: RON PAUL IN 2008? JUST SAY "NO" TO "DR. NO" 2007

These detailed schemes are filled with "echoes from the future," in Pasternak's apt phrase: eerie prefigurements and deep-rooted patterns that have been played out - in reality, not just on paper - over and over down through the decades, and now confront us once again, most starkly and horribly, in Iraq.

All-Day Permanent Red: Alex Cox and the Long March of American Militarism 2006

Her inexplicable moods, her brief moments of tenderness, her riotous griefs, and other prefigurements of maternity -- these made her dearer to Ootah.

The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

In the chief magistrate of that time all saw the unflinching executor of the nation's will -- a man whose words were the sure prefigurements of his deeds.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

I would here ask you to note what most people seem to forget, -- namely, that since Christ came, all these shadowy types and prefigurements have CEASED; a notable fact, even to skeptical minds.

Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

And now that these prefigurements have resolved themselves into an actual Divine

Ardath Marie Corelli 1889