| 单词 | adumbration |
| 例句 | For one, the music is in a somewhat later style, with occasional adumbrations of Jules Massenet. Review: An Operetta as Irreverent as Its Creator 2010-05-18T13:30:00Z I had distinct memories of my life before my father became sick, but the person I was seemed like a rose-coloured adumbration of my present self. Searching for an Alzheimer’s cure while my father slips away 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z On the evolutionist interpretation this is an adumbration of the actual genealogical tree or Stammbaum. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Here has been seen an adumbration of natural selection: he himself admits the difficulty he has in making it clear. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z His theory has something in common with current philosophical speculation, and it is in part, as I understand, a kind of adumbration, a shrewd guess, at the present attitude of cytologists. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z There is in it, at least, a crude attempt at photography, a process in which sunlight and air have some part, and, therefore, liker to nature than the adumbrations of the reading-room. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z In the same letter, there is an adumbration of his grandest experiment, when he speaks of the flash from two of his jars as "our mimic lightning." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Thus the popular literature of Europe was overrun by these adumbrations. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It is because all created realities, including the human mind itself, are adumbrations of the Divine Essence, that they are intelligible to the human mind. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z The first adumbration was forced upon him in the former work by his theory of opposition; the complete appearance in the latter work by his theory of syllogism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" But although adumbrations of it existed under the Roman empire and towards the end of the middle ages, book-collecting, as it is now understood, is essentially of modern growth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Newman was the true priest, and Froude recognized his genius and that his soul was "an adumbration of the Divine." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Licentious commentators have rioted in their presumed discoveries by extorting from the apparent meaning a hidden sense; or by typical adumbrations wresting allusions to persons or circumstances. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Exquisite adumbrations of herself were traceable in his countenance, and so far, at any rate, his hair was curled and silvery as hers was once famed to be. Carnival Her faint adumbration of doubt inspired in him an emotion of fiery protectiveness. Command An exquisite pose, girlish, fascinating, yet carrying with it an adumbration of power. Captain Macedoine's Daughter And an adumbration of such freedom, which is the aim of self-realisation, would help us to penetrate deeply into the nature of things. Naturalism And Religion Oh, Heavens! call me whatever you choose; call me in the most uncourteous manner 'Tussmann,' without the faintest adumbration of a title at all; or even 'My dear fellow!' The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II What was subconscious became conscious, what, back in the past, was a mere adumbration gloried out in Aurora splendours. The Kempton-Wace Letters But though it may be possible to attain, in the study, to some such adumbration of an understanding, it were plainly unfair to expect it of officials in the hurry of events. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) Perhaps there was something aback of his adumbrations concerning his ancient lineage. Captain Macedoine's Daughter What a foolish scene considered philosophically," he said; "and yet how many human interests in solution, and floating adumbrations of human fate! Sir Tom The Greeks, partly from the vivacity of their intellect, partly from their passion for the beautiful, lost these celestial adumbrations sooner than other nations. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century Before us is a dim adumbration of the pity of God, the highest manifestation of His love for man. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching If these causes be still further classified for comparison with the enumeration of intellectual causes stated in the previous lecture, we find only the adumbration of some of the forms there named. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion But their books are not Literature, nor their pictures Art, except in so far as they represent a faint adumbration of the European tradition. A Modern Symposium The untenableness of the particular parallelisms above instanced, is no ground for denying an essential parallelism; since early ideas are usually but vague adumbrations of the truth. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Nor do we for a moment believe that the waywardness of a genius or a prophet in boyhood is always a significant adumbration. The Book of Khalid Further it would be possible, even if more difficult, to pass beyond this mere adumbration, and cause the former being to arise again from the ashes, fully alive. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts There is no explanation, for instance, in calling beauty an adumbration of divine attributes. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory But this is mixed with all sorts of other adumbrations, if not wholly original, yet showing that quest of originality which has been commended. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 I have no intention of devoting any part of my lecture, aside from these introductory adumbrations, to the astonishing number of new friends whose bright and morning faces I see before me. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Every nerve centre must be prepared to express any adumbration of plasticity. The Merry-Go-Round Based in bloody wars between the primitive races, and between the trappers and their allies, the land had passed through a thin adumbration of civilization as the stockmen drove out the buffalo and their hunters. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West I never said anything so idiotic as that the effect isn't helped by an appeal to the eye and an adumbration of the whereabouts. Picture and Text 1893 Only a lunatic sought injustices to paint or rectify, but if one alleviated the suffering that came before him and his adumbration, his life would have true worth. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais This varies immensely in degree, from its first adumbration in the animal to its intense development in the Great Masters of Spiritual Science. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science A third possible course was the closing of all continental ports against England, an adumbration of the Continental System of 1806–13 for assuring the ruin of British commerce. William Pitt and the Great War "A dark bluish surface, with dots on it, and the faintest adumbrations of shape under the darkness, is gravely called a Nocturne in Black and Gold." The Gentle Art of Making Enemies It is rather the one sacrifice which alone realises the ideas of which all other so-called sacrifices were but the faint adumbrations. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 The doctrine has therefore received a confirmation of which Aristotle did not dream, and its explanation has at the same time received an illumination which his vague if profound adumbration could never afford. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Even the most advanced among us have, as yet, little more than the faintest adumbration of what this place is. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science The day of painless life and tireless vigor, The day of widening knowledge of the best, The day when earth's deceits and adumbrations Shall change into the truth in glory dressed. Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn Was not all that scene in the Long Gallery to be reproduced—doubtless only in a faint adumbration of its real glory, yet with a sense of recovering it and living it again? Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House There are critical moments when rules fail, when, in fact, obedience to rule would mean disobedience to that higher law, of which rules and formulae are at best only an adumbration. A Short History of Greek Philosophy "You were right," said Ling Hop, cryptically, feeling that he was called upon to say something, but still with that faint adumbration of the inevitable letter. White Ashes She would give things to the girls—he had a private adumbration of that; expensive Parisian, perhaps not perfectly useful, things. The Tragic Muse I am afraid that incautious observation was the nuance of the shadow of an intimation of an opinion, bearing the faintest adumbration of a prediction: I am sorry for it. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter In our theatres the pantomime, which was originally an adumbration of human life, has become degraded. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country The type must be a true adumbration of the thing typified, though, from the very nature of the case, the adumbration must be inadequate—a shadow only of the antitype, and not its substance. Companion to the Bible They are but the dim adumbrations of what was by and by to bloom forth in the human race. The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin Strangely, in vast solitudes, comes over us a sense of desolation, when even the faintest adumbrations of life seem lost in the inertia of mortality. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 The greatest mystery of religion is expressed by adumbration, and in the noblest part of Jewish types, we find the cherubim shadowing the mercy-seat. Austin and His Friends They saw the gigantic shadows of celestial ahmingmah passing behind the clouds . . . and here and there were the cyclopean adumbrations of great caribou, and creatures for which they did not have a name. The Eternal Maiden It was conceivable that Thatcher saw in the position of the map an adumbration of Bassett's higher political ambition, and that this had affected the capitalist unpleasantly. A Hoosier Chronicle The orb that burns in the rifts of space Is the adumbration of God's Face. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 This little unpretentious book gathers into itself, either in faint adumbration or in fairly advanced form, the tendencies in method and ideas that are to remake criticism in the eighteenth century. Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) Men never move to the adumbration of general right until the conquest of political rights has been proved inadequate. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Then, with crushing strides, behind the adumbration a great sled, a titan figure gathered substance in the clouds. The Eternal Maiden Personality dodges and flickers always between our eyes and the solemn motions, the adumbrations of the augustness beyond. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The former is the adumbration of the latter. The Christian Home I should like, also, to risk the suggestion that to the author of Some Remarks should go the honor of the earliest adumbration of the "Hamlet problem." Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) In those light vanishing curves her womanhood was more suggested than defined; it dawned on him in tender adumbration rather than in light. The Divine Fire All other adumbrations of a life beyond must necessarily be cast into the metaphorical forms or the negative symbols in which the New Testament abounds. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) It is at no time severed from reality; it is never its mere adumbration, nor are its contents mere phenomena. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher It enters the sphere of supernatural faith, and becomes the adumbration of our home in heaven. The Christian Home On the other hand, there are in some works of art subtleties and adumbrations hardly to be disentangled by any other means. Since Cézanne The wall is a most miraculous adumbration of green. Promenades of an Impressionist His best work is satirical, giving a faint adumbration of Hudibras; his other poems, with occasional passages of great beauty, being affected and artificial. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature That's the mystery, The adumbration of poetic art, And there I leave it to perplex mankind. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini Not only was there a good fable, as before, but it was managed with increasing mastery, while the general adumbration of life gained in solidity, truth and rich human quality. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Her shadow was poised like the Statue of Liberty — the liberty which had inadvertently created her unorthodox perspectives, but hers was an inconsequential adumbration. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America "I would rather trust Raphael's version," said Sidney, with an adumbration of a wink in his left eyelid. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People The adumbrations of a new supernatural figure were looming in the conception of the world. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe All the grand imaginations of men, all the glorified shapes, the Olympian gods, cherubic and seraphic forms, are but symbols and adumbrations of what it contains. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 He was re-reading these first adumbrations of disaster with a sinking heart, reading the shadow of death more and more perceptibly into them, reading to occupy his mind until further news should come. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth He had about him very many of, I can hardly say the visible tokens, but the adumbrations of the highest qualities. Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers But an image is but an image still, and can be but an adumbration or shadow of the true Perfect Being. The Existence of God Our Alabama contemporary is but an anile echo of the New York Tribune, a faint adumbration of the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Right there the last faint adumbration of responsibility ends and complete mental aberration begins. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 But though it may be possible to attain, in the study, to some such adumbration of an understanding, it were plainly unfair to expect it of officials in the hurry of events. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Nevertheless, as this narrative will show later on, we betrayed glimmering adumbrations of the monogamy that was later to give power to, and make mighty, such tribes as embraced it. Before Adam Lily's inward start betrayed itself in a quick blush: was it possible that this was really the sense of Carry Fisher's adumbrations? House of Mirth How was it that he had not been able to refrain from telling her of adumbrations heretofore locked in the closest strongholds of his mind? A Pair of Blue Eyes The lugubrious harmony of the spot with his domestic situation was too perfect for him, impatient of effects scenes, and adumbrations. The Mayor of Casterbridge Had this been attempted it must have led to an adumbration of the coming tragic conflict,—which is what Schiller wished to avoid. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man. Before Adam This obedience of the Virgilian hero to the heavenly will, was already an adumbration of the humility of the future Christian. Saint Augustin The jubilation that followed, it is impossible for me to describe; and my husband, who approves of all I have yet written, begs me not to attempt an adumbration of it. The Flight of the Shadow Other enthusiasms will fatten; but the wonderful Gothic adumbration of Christianity was born in the North and has never been healthy anywhere else. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Of the political ideas which the world associates with 'Don Carlos' there is here no adumbration. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller He would present no human adumbration of goodness, but Christ Himself. Milton You'll never get Hedulio to tell you anything more definite than the very vague and hazy adumbration of his exploit he has already given. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire I doubt whether anything to range with this occurs in any other criminal cauldron in the world; and therefore, with stopped nostrils, have I tried to give some faint adumbration of its character. The Subterranean Brotherhood The New Testament, by its teaching as to 'the Eternal Word,' endorses, clears, and expands all these earlier dimmer adumbrations. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah In blessedness there is joy for which here we are not made, so that we catch it only in glimpses or in adumbrations. On Something Analogies, poetic adumbrations, probabilities drawn from consciousness and from conscience, from intuition and from anticipation, are but poor foundations on which to build a solid faith. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII And in "calf love" I do not include the adumbrations of extreme childhood like those immortalised in Annabel Lee:— I was a child and she was a child In that kingdom by the sea. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration, presage, indication. The Century Vocabulary Builder In all our hearts, did we but listen and understand, there are adumbrations of kingly ancestors, and the latent stirrings of kingly powers. The Warriors Its plentiful references to passing events—its adumbrations of the history of the time—however it might damage the permanent value of the work from an artistic point of view, increased its immediate popularity. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Surely the deeper insight of the philosopher may be allowed without the reproach of fancifulness, to see in it the adumbration of some deeper mystery! Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face I think it will entertain you when it appears in November—and perhaps interest—by the adumbration of the line I mean to take if ever that "Romanes" Lecture at Oxford comes off. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 And these, in turn, vaguely merging each into each, present glimmering adumbrations of the coming human solidarity which shall be man’s crowning glory. Revolution, and Other Essays In those few moments he lived through his past life and faced an adumbration of the future. The Fortunate Youth Granted that these same doctrines of Zoroaster are faint adumbrations of the Hebrew creed, the Gordian knot is by no means loosed. Beulah Everything is ours in this scene—orchestration, vocalization, dramatization, characterization, gesticulation, auditory inflammation, cacophonation, demoralization, adumbration. Bluebeard; a musical fantasy But the mere adumbration of an odor is enough for the sensitive nose and clean tongue of youth. Stalky & Co. It might be possible to coast about it, to hint at it, by adumbrations and in consequences. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix Indeed, an ultimate analysis relegates all intellection, in its primordial adumbrations, to every particle of living matter. A History of Science — Volume 4 They are a very primitive people, manifesting but mere glimmering adumbrations of that tremendous artifice, Civilisation. The People of the Abyss He was as splendid a brute—an adumbration of the splendid human conquerors and rulers, higher on the ladder of evolution, who have appeared in other times and places. Jerry of the Islands Lazarus closed his eyes while on his face A tortured adumbration of a smile Flickered an instant. The Three Taverns |
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