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And thus the fragility of this vast ecosystem is adumbrated by the suggestion of decay on the newly restored walls of the gallery. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z
In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned. Review | Not every Leonardo is in the huge Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. What’s at the Louvre, though, is brilliant. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z
To adumbrate the claims of the arts is not, of course, to deny those of schools, hospitals, police services. Arts cuts are an act of unthinking vandalism to the cultural landscape 2011-03-30T20:26:03Z
The filmmakers build to this moment as if it were D-Day or the Rumble in the Jungle, excavating a biographical Before and adumbrating a news media After. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z
But the happy chance to show a tranche of Gauguin pieces somehow morphed into an exhibition about his putative “spiritual journey,” which is adumbrated but not proved. Review | The De Young Museum tries, and fails, to trace Paul Gauguin’s ‘spiritual journey’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z
The interpolated notebook entries, meanwhile, adumbrate a serpentine journey through Poland, Budapest, Belgrade, Croatia, Odessa, Sofia and Bucharest. A Polymath Author With More Ideas Than He Can Handle 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z
Passages of the original work underlined and adumbrated with exclamation marks and double or even treble question marks; phrases scored out and notes running down the margin at right angles to the printed text. Confessions of an art critic: I can't believe the things I write in my notebooks 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z
His photographs have used a variety of techniques to adumbrate this world. Victory in the Shadows 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z
The shape of the building was first adumbrated by Jacques Herzog, a principal of the firm that became world famous for the “Bird’s Nest” stadium at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Perspective | A new concert hall in Hamburg transforms the city 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z
But while lauding the rights and privileges of the Americans he observed, Tocqueville also adumbrated the responsibilities that came with being an American citizen. American Voters Are Responsible for Protecting Democracy 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z
More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z
Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But as soon as you adumbrate thus, you are beset with misgivings. Appy medium: could Instagram start an artistic revolution? 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z
The walk outwards from both cities’ centres adumbrates the difference. A tale of two cities 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z
Between detours through nanotechnology, robotics and military strategy, he adumbrated a resilient society of “Odyssean” citizens capable of working across the sciences and arts and adapting to complex technology. An optimistic Eurosceptic 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z
In doing so, the Supreme Court would be defending a doctrine adumbrated in decisions over six decades. The Supreme Court’s opportunity to tackle sinister trends 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z
Together with the bare facts of the retreat at Walden, those lines have become the ones by which we adumbrate Thoreau, so that our image of the man has also become simplified and inspirational. Henry David Thoreau, Hypocrite 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z
Moody’s, in its Driver #3 for the downgrade, introduced as “Erosion of Policy Effectiveness and Credibility Could Undermine Debt Affordability,” only adumbrates such huge risks: Moody's Japan Credit Downgrade Still Underestimating Risk Of Financial Crisis 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z
Every usurpation, every break in the ordinary line of succession, was adumbrated by a series of miracles; and signs, both in heaven and earth, were manifested whenever an emperor was about to die. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z
Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z
Kipps gathered that with his marriage and the movement to London they were to undergo that subtle change of name Coote had first adumbrated. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z
But now, while we are shown that the moral sense doctrine in its original form is not true, we are also shown that it adumbrates a truth, and a much higher truth. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z
A vaster, greyer world is adumbrated in the books of De Gourmont. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z
According to these writers, every tincture and bearing adumbrated the natural dispositions of the bearer. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z
Yet the scheme thus adumbrated is not at the present time clearly in sight. South America and the War 2012-02-10T03:00:17.163Z
The case of Stringer and Sony adumbrates another knotty problem with gaijin CEOs:  if they stay long enough, they will leave a company’s management culture, and personnel, significantly altered.  Sony Says Sayonara to Gaijin CEO 2012-02-07T15:07:23Z
The inspiration of Art of all kinds consists in the invention of precisely such a wider symbolism as has been above adumbrated. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z
She marked the colour—lilac—as if faintly to adumbrate the imperial purple of Rome. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z
I muttered that in fragments, but the lines only adumbrated the longing without revealing its hidden fount. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z
This, no doubt, is eminently convenient for the "constructive" process adumbrated by Mr. Balfour, which I certainly regard as extra-logical. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z
One could adumbrate triumph or disaster by the effort, sustained or otherwise, made by them. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z
So far as communism of capital is concerned, did not Cleveland's graphic statement adumbrate the conditions as they exist today? Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z
"Formal resignation"—adumbrated by more than one innuendo—portended the summary collapse of a political career that she had believed would culminate in elevation to a Cabinet seat during the next administration. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z
The fact is also adumbrated symbolically by a large brass can, which is set over the portal. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z
Luckily, the number of people who hold the fundamental theory of education adumbrated in this view is becoming so rapidly smaller that this chapter will, let us hope, be too late to reach them. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z
He adumbrated peace before Christmas, and believed that a world-war would end war. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z
And even if the threat of a double-dip recession does materialise, Labour will only benefit politically if voters believe it is adumbrating a viable alternative. Spending review is a full stop but history lesson is vital in economics 2010-10-25T06:00:00Z
At a Conference held in Berlin in 1851, a general European Postal Union was adumbrated. The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study
The locked-up chapels and the quiet houses declined from ominousness into respectability, and he wondered how he had managed only a quarter of an hour ago to speculate upon the inner life they adumbrated. Sinister Street, vol. 2
A still more depressing symptom is the policy already adumbrated by the Government to mitigate the devastation wrought in the country places. Stand Up, Ye Dead
The change thus adumbrated would seem to be in the natural order of evolution, and at the same time to be in large measure one rather of nomenclature than of substance. Naval Warfare
There only, they implied, could something adumbrating a sacred ritual and a spiritual consolation be preserved. The Book of Susan A Novel
Any proof of the existence of "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" would certainly prove the non-existence of the being adumbrated in "God save the King"; and vice versa. Religious Perplexities
These two verses are obviously adumbrated from the conclusion of Virgil's first eclogue, and Dryden's version of it: For see yon sunny hill the shade extends And curling smoke from cottages ascends.—Wakefield. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition
There was a blind primeval ferocity to be engendered by adumbrating, even for a few moments, their non-existence. Command
As I have adumbrated to you more than once, I am not so sure of all this. Captain Macedoine's Daughter
And just as the fish and the reptile glimmeringly adumbrate man, so do these yearnings and desires adumbrate what man in himself calls "love," spelled all out in capitals. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Neither let him deem himself an atheist because he cannot believe in the Deity adumbrated by "God save the King." Religious Perplexities
This truth seems to be adumbrated in a somewhat obscurer form by those who maintain that men can sin against God's revelation, but not against the eternal decree by which He has ordained all things.... The Philosophy of Spinoza
This one’s descent was mincing, hesitant, adumbrating dread of disclosures—these expectedly ample, columnar, massive. The So-called Human Race
To define, or rather to adumbrate, the realm of mystery, which is yet as indisputably real as the realm of reason and sense, we naturally turn to the poets, the seers. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King'
He vaguely adumbrated what it was out of which she came. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
The unrevealed and the unrevealable is the soul itself that in such works is dimly adumbrated. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe
The mountains, whose worship he was the first to adumbrate, if not actually to institute, were the symbols of the great natural221 forces free from any stain of human interference. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)
But it is now time to state, or rather faintly to adumbrate, the grand assumption of this singular work. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865
From now onwards the speeches of Brutus strangely adumbrate those of Hamlet. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
But the colours of New York are exactly in that key; and might be adumbrated by phrases like raw pink or raw yellow. What I Saw in America
I had adumbrated a scheme to arouse interest in his case among certain scholars and men of influence with whom I was slightly acquainted. The Wonder
If all rites, then our holidays among the rest, serve only to adumbrate and shadow forth something, and by consequence are unprofitable and idle, when the substance itself is clearly set before us. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
Feeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1
Obstreperous parent adumbrated in the foreground, shotgun in hand. The Madness of May
The puny bishoprics of Meath, for example, could form no part of a scheme such as Gilbert adumbrated. St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
Being in this darkened aisle, he felt as if he were once again the adumbrated boy whom he once was. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
To Agastya are attributed many marvellous mythic deeds which adumbrate and veil ancient events; some of which are alluded to here and there in the Rámáyana.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
Yet already there were voices, especially in Virginia, which adumbrated the incomparable phrases of the greatest of Virginians. A History of the United States
Bides she his coming; adumbrates the new Expurgatorial Divine, Her final effulgent Avatar, Postured outside a trampling mastodon Black as her Baker's charger; towering; visibly gorged With blood of traitors. The Book of Humorous Verse
The following statistics will enable the reader to realise how closely the sonnetteering movement in France adumbrated that p. 444in England.  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
A truer view of Nature was adumbrated by Aristotle when he formulated the theory of an Energy ever generative of the sensible. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
For Jackson to make these color prints was a logical step, since his work had tended toward the full chromatic range even in the chiaroscuros, which “adumbrated” color. John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut
And it is everywhere distinguished, first, by the adventurous fecundity of its experiments in form and kind, secondly, by the presence of that spirit which has been adumbrated in the last paragraph. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
It is this totality of obligations, the whole systematisation of conduct in human life, that in my adumbrated analysis I call the moral sphere. The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade
The lilt, the swelling cadence, the rich rhyme, the hidden alliterations,—and then the sensitive, haunting pathos, the eternal verities adumbrated by its symbolism. The Lady Paramount
To that person is reserved the pleasure of fathoming the intention, of completing the idea adumbrated by the composer. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
Now pray get us a full light on all other names and localities that are adumbrated in this said Shirley.  Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
In it he adumbrated many of the ideas that were later developed in Orthodoxy. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Mrs. Parr, only partially convinced, was forced to accept the explanation; and though her eyes adumbrated reproach, she dared not say more. The Mayor of Warwick
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
These final works, these last sonatas and poems and preludes of Scriabine are but the essentialization of the personal traits adumbrated by the compositions of the earlier periods. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
These are the ideas of Sybil, though in the novel they are adumbrated in a dim and fantastic way. Studies in Early Victorian Literature
A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype. Companion to the Bible
And he imagined them as one: multiple expressions of some single unearthly portent they adumbrated in mighty form—dead symbols of some spiritual conception long vanished from the world. Four Weird Tales
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
Here the later doctrine of Mâyâ is adumbrated, though not formulated. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
The tremulous tracery the wood-fire cast upon his face gave it an expression of dumb intensity which adumbrated all the pathos and the patience of his race. The Voice of the People
David's headship adumbrated the higher headship of the Redeemer; his conflicts with the enemies of God's people and his final triumph over them, Christ's conflicts and victories. Companion to the Bible
The women of his own race and place had never adumbrated such a possibility. The Turtles of Tasman
The War in the Air definitely disclosed a change of method that was adumbrated in its predecessor. H. G. Wells
It adumbrates the indescribable by metaphors and figures. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
The opening event had been thus different from her expectation, and she had adumbrated no act to meet it. Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages
I adumbrated Browning's outlook on life, translating into Norwegian, I well remember, the words "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world." A Christmas Garland
Influenced by Egyptian speculation, they imagined an incarnation of the Divine Spirit, and in the mystical thought of the day they adumbrated theories of virgin birth. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
This has been faintly adumbrated above, but the lines must be a little deepened and the contour filled in to some extent here. The English Novel
For the greatest deities of Hinduism, Siva, Krishna, Râma, Durgâ and some of its most essential doctrines such as metempsychosis and divine incarnations, are either totally unknown to the Veda or obscurely adumbrated in it. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
It also adumbrated an Ulster Committee, which had been an unpopular suggestion when put forward in the presentation stages. John Redmond's Last Years
Is it that these were tending to usurp the place of the spiritual, of which they were but the assurance and the symbol, and darken rather than reveal the eternal reality they adumbrated? Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Of the six "Idyls," three—"In the Woods," "Siesta," and "To the Moonlight"—are memorable, though uneven; and of these the third, after Goethe's "An den Mond," adumbrates faintly MacDowell's riper manner. Edward MacDowell
God is reflected in the macrocosm, gives light in all directions through all creatures, is adumbrated in man microcosmically, and so forth. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
But she dared not breathe his name, dared not even adumbrate an inquiry; and her husband and daughters appeared to have entered into a compact not to mention him. Leonora
The eyes of education are fixed always upon the future, and philosophy of whatever kind, directly adumbrates a Utopia, thinks on educational lines. Cambridge Essays on Education
Very many things could be regimented and organized into the mute system of education that Goethe evidently adumbrates there. On the Choice of Books
In doing so he may, adventitiously, throw light on something more interesting than the past; he may adumbrate the outline of the coming movement. Since Cézanne
To construe clearly the states of mind which are adumbrated rather than depicted is difficult, for Browning had not yet learnt to manifest his generalised conceptions through concrete details, to plunge his abstractions in reality. Robert Browning
And during it all an eternal song, of which it catches now and then a few words which adumbrate still higher wonders. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
A sane idealism believes that the eternal verities are adumbrated, not travestied, in the phenomenal world, and does not forget how much of what we call observation of nature is demonstrably the work of mind. Cambridge Essays on Education
The background is a diagram of the forest as it might appear in spring—the slack looseness of treatment befitting the freedom of conduct adumbrated by the verse. The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry
All who went before merely adumbrated him and led up to him; all who have come since are descended from him and reflect him. Collections and Recollections
Thus the blocks arrived at the sea-shore with rudely adumbrated outlines of the shape they were destined to assume under the artist's chisel. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Not a day more than thirty, his face, save for the adumbrated puff sacks under the eyes, was as smooth and lineless as a boy's. Burning Daylight
Mr. Blood has made several attempts to adumbrate the anaesthetic revelation, in pamphlets of rare literary distinction, privately printed and distributed by himself at Amsterdam. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
The bitter placidity of Winterborne's look adumbrated the misgivings he did not care to express. The Woodlanders
"Did you notice Mr. Boldwood's doings in church this morning, miss?"Liddy continued, adumbrating by the remark the track her thoughts had taken. Far from the Madding Crowd
Liddy continued, adumbrating by the remark the track her thoughts had taken. Far from the Madding Crowd
The conception, even thus dimly and confusedly adumbrated, brought a new sense of life—terrific and eternal. The Centaur
On the other hand, the ignoble traits of Queen Elizabeth are brought into the foreground and made the most of, while her great qualities are hardly more than adumbrated in the picture. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
Thus we rehearse the activities of our ancestors, back we know not how far, and repeat their life work in summative and adumbrated ways. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
Certainly also our Lord must have used multitudes of human expressions which did not more than adumbrate his own knowledge. Miracles of Our Lord
But we can adumbrate something of the form of this deepest reason, if we let the thoughts of our heart move upon the face of the dim profound. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.
More obscurely adumbrated is the day of vengeance, when virtue should return to the repentant backslider, and the idolatrous crew should be smitten with a swift destruction in the midst of their insolent revelry. Milton
So we have great verities of the most spiritual religion adumbrated in this external rite. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
Is it not all adumbrated and foretold in these words: 'How precious is Thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust'? Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
The solemn purple pall that adumbrated the world and the huge nothingness before them, so silent, so immutable and pregnant with terrible mysteries, brought them close together. Darkness and Dawn
The mind is baffled in seeking to find human speech which shall even adumbrate reality. Letters of Catherine Benincasa
The figure of the villain, too, adumbrates, though faintly, the type which engaged Hawthorne's mind in later years. Nathaniel Hawthorne
But, to employ a word that I do not often use, I might adumbrate the proposals. Indian speeches (1907-1909)
Instead of exposing vice in the actions of particular persons, the book is a highly moral laudation of those scions of the house of Manners whose names are adumbrated in the title. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
Historical figures of the highest rank may perhaps be best adumbrated in this fashion, with or without one personal appearance, so brief that there shall be no danger of anti-climax. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship
V. represent, delineate; depict, depicture†; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness &c. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
As said the first Greek philosopher, Empedocles, who 560 B.C. adumbrated the "survival of the fittest" theory of Darwin, they are the result of ceaseless trials of nature. American Big Game in Its Haunts
The World State in this ideal presents itself as the sole landowner of the earth, with the great local governments I have adumbrated, the local municipalities, holding, as it were, feudally under it as landlords. A Modern Utopia
Most of the principles and expedients of representative government were adumbrated during this first flush of English nationalism, which has been called "the age of the Commons." The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution
Dear old thing: of course they had and a great deal more than adumbrated The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
IN the former Chapter I endeavoured to adumbrate Wilton House as to its architecture. The Natural History of Wiltshire
There is not one of them that adumbrates a theory that can be called a theory of Progress. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth
It seems to me a poem of symbols, dimly adumbrating truths, which my clouded intellect clutches at in vain. Beulah
There had, in truth, scarcely yet been time enough to adumbrate the possibilities opened up by this gentleman's return. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
The opening event had been thus different from her expectation, and she had adumbrated no act to meet it.  A Changed Man; and other tales
Her secret being at last given—to the world, and the name of the lady friend being even adumbrated, Jacky made no further experiments in the difficult and tiring art of conversation. Howards End
Yet the substance of it is fairly adumbrated here in the passage beginning, "There are undoubtedly many marks of relaxation in the reins of French government," written fully six years previously. Travels through France and Italy
First the outline of the story, in the speech for the plaintiff; then this outline filled in by the examination of the plaintiff himself; then the other side of the story adumbrated by his cross-examination. Yet Again
The shoes, the hands, are rather sketchy, the sky is a mere slab; the ruined temples are no more than adumbrated. And Even Now
The real truth is that adumbrated in the introductory section when we spoke of the sense of home and property, as now we speak of the sense of counsel and community. What's Wrong with the World
The least imaginative man could see that here was an invention that would be epoch-making, but the most visionary dreamer could not even vaguely adumbrate the real measure of its importance. A History of Science — Volume 3
If a phonograph were kept in the house, you would learn from it that the average sentence of the average speaker is an even more grotesque abortion than I have adumbrated. Yet Again
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