Apparently from the very first episode of "Work of Art," clues to the identity of the eventual winner were baked into the show -- a kind of adumbration that is in fact seeded throughout all reality shows by their canny, all-knowing producers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (1921)
This is a pleasant picture of the great writer's domestic life, and it gives also a faint 'adumbration' of what is now forgotten: the intense curiosity and eager anticipation that was abroad as to what he was doing or preparing. ❋ Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald (1879)
[Footnote 1: This evidently referred to the "adumbration" of ❋ Hester Lynch Piozzi (1781)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
So the first takeaway is that the US government might think the legal situation sufficiently plain that it needs no adumbration. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In ideology-critique, "reproduce" means something a whole lot more fundamental than cutting-and-pasting, Andrew, but there's a hint, a glimmering, an adumbration in your second point that restores my faith in your critical acumen. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What was subconscious became conscious, what, back in the past, was a mere adumbration gloried out in Aurora splendours. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There can be no adumbration of all this joy and love stuff the Christians talk about, unless it is the Grand Inquisitor doing the talking, preferably while burning Galileo, buggering an altarboy, or hiding the bones of Jesus (who should, just to make it Dark, turn out to be a vampire or something). ❋ Unknown (2009)
I've always wanted to use adumbration in a sentence. ❋ M_francis (2009)
The proliferation of experts, administrators, agencies, departments is but an adumbration of that article: it's how a large number of relatively privileged can be well-paid parasites to the many, even though they don't create any real value; often, they impede its creation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Computer scientists have known for sometime, at least for 60 years, that simple systems are capable of universal computation, given only as much “programming” as is required by a statement of initial conditions, an adumbration (“netlist”) of the material properties of the computing elements, and a dynamical law over all. ❋ Unknown (2008)
` The novel operates like a reverse adumbration of the prologue. ❋ Unknown (2010)
More important is the adumbration of the Obama administration, signaling that they are no longer in the castration mode. ❋ Unknown (2010)
