Sentence examples for was prefigured from inspiring English sources

I am obsessed by how the Second World War was prefigured by the Spanish Civil War.

The challenge of doing so was prefigured in his first appointments.

To an astonishing degree, everything that is happening now was prefigured 50 years ago.

It was prefigured by the bombast of the 19th-century bourgeois style - it always comes from somewhere.

That move was prefigured in the design of the Silk browser, introduced last week by Amazon, operator of one of the world's biggest clouds.

A new exhibition at the British Library suggests that the abbreviated language used in today's text messages was prefigured in the Victorian genre called emblematic poetry.

Metaphorically, perhaps he was prefiguring that you you're better off with two pass-catching tight ends instead of one.

It seems unlikely, though, that Woodman was prefiguring her own death in her work, rather than playing with themes of identity and with the role that photography, and in particular portrait photography, can play in constructing a fixed – and therefore false – identity.

Such bestial descents are prefigured.

A world of information is prefigured in those few sentences.

It is the fulfillment of what is prefigured in the earlier canticles.