With Levi it was quite different, a matter, it seemed, of the work not prefiguring but being contradicted.

The films are sometimes seen as prefiguring the rise of Nazism, but may at the time have represented a nostalgic wish for a restored monarchy.

Traditionally, the Old Testament was perceived as a prefiguring of the New Testament.

In 1922 Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe's hands caressing an animal skull, a prefiguring of her later enthusiasm.

This artwork will command all the arts - 'Architecture can set before herself no higher task than to frame' it, (an early prefiguring of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus).

- "Synthetic Meditations: Descartes in the Matrix, " in Prefiguring Cyberculture, eds.

'The Unanimisation Concept of St. Teilhard de Chardin as a Prefiguring of Unity.' "

Another Encounter Behind the Wheel Authorities don't yet know whether to assess one earlier highway incident as a prefiguring of the shooting Mr. Baz's is accused of.

-surely a parallel prefiguring (together with the Burns poem) of all those occasions when Christie's Hastings would be delegated to assemble the suspects for Poirot's latest denouement.

In Fleury-Richard's critical writings scholars find a reflection prefiguring of his attachment to Symbolism before Symbolism even existed: "Painting is not an imitation of reality.

Lin Carter, who thought "Dagon" an "excellent" story, remarked that it was "an interesting prefiguring of themes later to emerge in [Lovecraft's] Cthulhu stories.

In its version of New Testament communism, Pantisocracy would have been for Coleridge a prefiguring of "the vast family of love" he envisions in "Religious Musings."

Christians, after all, see the rescue of the Israelites from slavery and their miraculous escape through the Red Sea as a prefiguring of Jesus's miraculous escape from the tomb.

And in 1860 a Southerner wrote a fantasy novel that imagined Gotham destroyed after an urban Armageddon that pitted working-class Irish against the city's business classes (an eerie prefiguring of the draft riots to come).

The characters will spin their pipe dreams in this prefiguring of both "Waiting for Godot" and "Death of a Salesman," as they await the arrival of Hickey, a salesman coming in for his annual binge.

His influence has been discerned in novels written by Henry Harland, Ronald Firbank and Graham Greene, and in his coinage of neologisms and use of the Ulysses story there is some perhaps coincidental prefiguring of the works of James Joyce.

Christian tradition gave him a distinctively Christian perspective, seeing in David's battle with Goliath the victory of God's King over the enemies of God's helpless people as a prefiguring of Jesus' victory over sin on the Cross and the Church's victory over Satan.

"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."