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report or represent in outline; foreshadow or symbolize

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A whiff of brine, a swank trestle adumbrant, Loading Only No Standing, 14th & 10th—this was Tetration’s NY HQ.

—p.67 Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (67) by Mark Greif
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6 years ago


Southern California Country adumbrates a full-fledged theory of the singular historical conditions – ranging from militarized class organization to ‘super-boosterism’ – that made possible the breakneck urbanization of Los Angeles

—p.32 Sunshine or Noir? (13) by Mike Davis
notable
4 years, 4 months ago


as the collection does not come together organically as much as adumbrate the problems Wallace was having with his third novel

—p.132 Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King (123) by David Hering
uncertain
9 years, 5 months ago


not unpleasant (the lady was polite, discreet, unassuming) precisely because it was barely adumbrated

—p.263 The Adventure of a Reader (254) by Italo Calvino
notable
8 months, 3 weeks ago


That ex-boyfriend was Nick Land, who adumbrated, in a series of strange texts that blend the style of horror fiction with high theory, a view that became known as accelerationism

—p.171 How To Care: On Mark Fisher (167) by Phil Christman
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3 years, 5 months ago


A couple of mornings a month, stiff with pride, deafened with aspirin (and reckless with Bloody Marys), Nicola would adumbrate serious reform:

—p.17 by Martin Amis
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11 months, 4 weeks ago


Here I was adumbrating on my own hook a bit.

—p.270 ACQUISITIVE LOVE (251) by Norman Rush
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1 year ago


The missing volume, in other words, would presumably have adumbrated a theory of proletarian agency as an integral aspect of this self-making of labor as antagonist of capital

—p.20 Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency (1) by Mike Davis
notable
2 years, 9 months ago


he did not know that the experience he has put me through, all those times, in all those years, is the one I’ve adumbrated, for a few hours, from time to time, just now?

—p.78 II. PITCH DARK (43) by Renata Adler
notable
3 years, 4 months ago


the traditional Marxist attack (derived from Taint and Blinks) adumbrates a theory of types, as distinct from contingent phenomena

—p.198 The Writings of Lee Russell: New Left Review (1964–7) (151) by Peter Wollen
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2 years, 1 month ago

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
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Sonora Review DFW Tribute
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Sonora Review DFW Tribute
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his adumbration of this potential "VIR"--vicious infinite regress

—p.5 Editor's Introduction (4) by Michael Sheehan
confirm
9 years, 1 month ago


he was greatly talented at describing closed worlds, and adumbrating their conventions

—p.218 George Orwell's Very English Revolution (204) by James Wood
notable
9 years ago


a frail memory or adumbration of some broader consensus

—p.76 by Terry Eagleton
notable
8 years, 9 months ago


the shared positioning adumbrated in "Think" proposes

—p.127 The Case of "Think" in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Is Dialogism Possible? (95) missing author
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3 years, 1 month ago


or else his hand adumbrated a kind of beckoning gesture directed to no one in particular

—p.328 ORACHE (325) by Vladimir Nabokov
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1 year, 8 months ago

heavily adumbrated, diamond-bright eye squinting like that of a timorous steed.

like literally outlined? like creased?

—p.575 A FORGOTTEN POET (569) by Vladimir Nabokov
notable
1 year, 8 months ago


for readers of poetry or gazers at paintings or films, listeners to music, for all of us who have found there comfort and consolation and instruction, unnervings, adumbrations of meaning, echoes of intuitions we hadn’t even understood that we had

—p.343 On Teaching Poetry (341) by Robert Hass
strange
6 years, 9 months ago