So expansive is his vision that it includes not just the piers and sails and reeling gulls but everyone else who makes the crossing: all those who stood at the railing watching before his birth, all those watching around him now, and all those who will be there watching after his death — which, in the poem, he doesn't so much foresee as, through a wild, craning omniscience, look back on.
I was almost ready to pass the cruelest verdict on myself when I suddenly came across something I could never have foreseen, much less rehearsed.
In fact the cuts have been much deeper than foreseen, and banks are caving in to American pressure not to send the PA money from other sources.
Consequently, in the years 1990, 2000 and 2007 the removals of timber were much larger than foreseen in the forest year concerned.
Science shows our earth systems being disrupted at a rate much faster than foreseen.
It had nothing to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union, which occurred much as George Kennan had foreseen it.
In the end the war went more or less as foreseen, though much of what military commanders expected did not happen, and many unforeseen things did.
When it was scheduled, no one could have foreseen how much its pageant of political activism as spiritual quest would resonate — even in that bastion of privilege the Met — while Occupy Wall Street was camped downtown.
Could he have ever foreseen how much that part, in which he played an agent to a pin-up actor who lives with his buddies from home, would change his career?
Except as to the particular shape in which it was staged, and as to some of its accesseries, the final act tonight in the progress of the Franchise Bill came out pretty much as had been foreseen - namely, in the elimination from the bill of the immediate application alike of P.R. and the alternative vote.
