Word: foreshadowing
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With upper floors stepped five feet out beyond lower ones, the structures have a brooding quality. Fountains and an impressive collection of outdoor sculpture lend a touch of urban design. The place seems to foreshadow a new kind of city-suburb...
Those remarks, coupled with Agnew's attempt to blame the Senate votes on "the liberal media" and "organized labor and civil rights activists," have an ominous ring, just as the President's statement does. The words not only may foreshadow a more abrasive campaign this year than might otherwise have been expected, but represent a failure by progressive elements within the Administration to hold ground against the steadily growing influence of what might be called the Mitchell-Agnew axis...
...Finland's National Museum in Helsinki-Meister Francke's earliest known work. Its eight richly painted panels sum up the characteristic ambiguities of Meister Francke's style. In The Flagellation of St. Barbara, the brutal, peasant faces and awkward, potbellied figures of Barbara's tormentors foreshadow the popular style of Bruegel or Bosch-though neither painter had been born when they were painted. By contrast, nothing could be more courtly than the boneless sinuosity of Barbara's figure, the vapid sweetness of her untroubled expression or the richly brocaded gowns and hierarchic formality...
...kneeling bronze woman. Starting with a violently agitated figure that Rodin might have been proud to acknowledge, Brancusi went through several successively simplified versions until he arrived at the motionless Prayer he finally cast. Though still conventional in form, the mourner's classic calm and smoothed-over details foreshadow aspects of Brancusi's mature work...
Extreme Revisions. Economists at least know that they do not know these things. Often what they regard as known facts turn out to be little more than guesses. "Most of the leading indicators [the economic statistics that are supposed to foreshadow general business trends] tend to be reported in a preliminary fashion and later revised on the basis of wider sampling," notes Beryl Sprinkel, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "And the revisions can be extreme." Chairman