In system engineering context, a functional analysis is the systematic process of identifying, describing and correlating the functions a system must perform in order to be successful at any foreseen life-cycle phase or operational state/mode.
In "A Girl in Winter," the second of his two published novels (and why only two, when they are so good?), his heroine, Katherine Lind, foresees: Life would be happy insofar as she was happy, sad insofar as she was sad.
After Fassel's announcement, Shockey, who has spoken to the news media infrequently and reluctantly this season, was among the first Giants at his locker to react to the news -- first expressing regret for Fassel and refusing to foresee life without Pope.
Nobody could have foreseen that life in the global village was actually going to be like life in a village, and we would turn to the glinty-eyed shamans to explain all that spooky stuff we just saw in the fire.
The earlier book dealt with the experience of the spirit-child Azaro, who foresees a life of deprivation and struggle, yet still contrives to be "born with a smile on his face".
Who, meeting the grade A student Philip Milton Roth in 1953 (the year in which he locates the end of Indignation) could have foreseen his literary life?
He said that the attack on the building "near a wedding party venue" was carried out "with what must have been foreseen loss of life and injury to many civilians".
This question was not foreseen in a life edition (prime time) on TV, so that, taken by surprise, I must have answered, this may have been the "morning after", but it still was not a "pill" yet.
"The continued widespread use of poisons, particularly through aerial spraying, will lead to results that cannot be foreseen -- except that life, the indivisible wellspring of all life on earth, will never be the same again," Mr. Hough editorialized in 1958.
We'll be forced into such behavior because the television executives who are preparing us for post-apocalyptic life have foreseen that none of our canned goods will survive the cataclysm.
Poets of the Realist, Expressionist, Nationalist, and Existentialist movements in France and Germany saw their prototype in Kleist, a poet whose demonic genius had foreseen modern problems of life and literature.
