Sentence examples for presages that from inspiring English sources

But by 1868, "The Orphan" presages that alliance of realism with lyricism that would produce some of the best pages in "Boris".

The imagery presages that of "Guernica," which was painted the next year.

He noted that the technique of spacing out the letters of the word "Pioneer" above the head presages that used by later Chief Engraver Gilroy Roberts on the obverse of the Kennedy half dollar.

Her reaction presaged that of many women, white and black.

There was little a decade ago to presage that Hong Kong would draw so many galleries, artists and collectors.

It is too soon to tell whether these rulings presage that kind of sea change.

"It was a happy time," says Lotta Lindbeck, whose father, the artist Thomas Hellstrom, presaged that movement.

Nothing in Mr. Hogan's early days would have presaged that kind of accolade.

During the unrest that presaged that 1979 Islamic revolution, processions on the 40th day of mourning for fallen protesters became landmarks that created the momentum to topple the shah's regime.

But the brilliant, finely detailed landscape has some menacing symbols, among them a tomblike rock that looms behind the sleeping child, whose slightly twisted pose seems to presage that of the Pietà.

Wilentz notes that he presided over a period of corruption and favoritism, encouraging hostility toward government agencies and "a general disregard for oversight safeguards as among the evils of 'big government.' " In this, and in a notorious attempt to expand executive power outside the Constitution — the Iran-Contra affair — Reagan's Presidency presaged that of George W. Bush.