Annunciatory

In his paintings, the sunflowers, the workers 'worn shoes, the famous chair (Vincent's Chair with His Pipe, 1888) seem indeed to have arrived from another world, as freshly and startlingly there as the annunciatory angel, full of their news. ❋ Updike, John (2005)

The subjective urgency that Van Gogh's objective studies often projected, as of annunciatory apparitions, now melts the boundary between seer and seen, sight and psyche. ❋ Updike, John (2005)

Otherwise, had I gone abroad in the robes of the Tatrix, we would have been encumbered by guards and crowds; we would have had to travel in a palanquin; we would have been forced to tolerate the annunciatory drums and trumpets, and put up with all the noisy, ostentatious, dreary panoply of office. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1983)

The voice of the trumpets was not musical but annunciatory. ❋ Miller, Walter M. (1959)

These had an annunciatory effect, and harked back to the heroic era of Romantic piano music, for which Southam retained affection even after she became a committed serialist. ❋ ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN (2011)

The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

n. announcement of the Incarnation to Mary, mother of Jesus; feast celebrated on Lady Day (March 25); Annunciation lily, madonna lily. annunciative, annunciatory, anobiid ❋ Unknown (2008)