adumbration

Sacrifices must be made for any moment of true adumbration.

From this adumbration the computer as musical instrument continues to grow.

They seemed to walk in an adumbration of sinister insoluble.

"This seemed clear enough, but I sensed an adumbration extending yet beyond.

The glaring primary colors have their adumbration in the earlier ballet and opera music.

She could hardly form words through the soundless adumbration of the chimes.

Perhaps it is an adumbration of his rediscovered faith?

And I moved closer to him, in order to detect by touch or other perception the invisible presence that had cast the adumbration.

The constant adumbration of the bells weakened her.

The afternoon and evening that followed were tinged as by the tyrannous adumbration of an ill dream.

Tonality won't go away; it still functions as an adumbration, a universal twitch.

A glorious adumbration to bedazzle the mind!'

He himself had, of course, seen only a mask or faint adumbration of it; even so, he was not quite sure that he would live.

Reimann's marching, insistent introduction prefaces a firm adumbration of its restless mood.

But, as time went on, he felt an ever-deepening oppression, the adumbration of a monstrous menace crawling from the dark rim of the world.

They are all sufficiently high up to clear the earth's adumbration - the shadow cast by our planet itself-so are bathed in constant sunlight.

Mr. Davies sees the piece as the adumbration of an opera to come, with St. Francis as the subject.

He was, as it were, a preincarnation of a certain type of Renaissance scholar, an adumbration of Erasmus.

But for those few among us who find the opera thunderously banal, a 19th-century adumbration of Andrew Lloyd Webber, it comes as a relief.

("Fantoches," for example, as an adumbration of "Chevaux de Bois.")

Boromir would play a shameful part, treacherously fleeing to Saruman (a faint adumbration of Wormtongue?)

From Maspic and Chivers, very slowly, the clogging stupor lifted, and they too were conscious of an adumbration of terror vast as the night itself.

It was as genuine as his mirth at his ignoble tiny pun, or adumbration of a pun, the utmost limit of naval wit.

It is also true that "Tout n'est qu'images fugitives" is a frivolous adumbration of "Evening Star" from "Tannhauser."

His sizable audience should welcome the latest voyage in search of the secret springs of creativity - evolutionary, cosmic, mental - as a muted adumbration of temporal mortality."