| Snatches of conversation, remembered precepts, and prefigured cries of terror bombinate about his skull. |
| The black church's historic role in providing education, social services, and a safe gathering place prefigured its historic role in the civil rights movement. |
| Her sense of loss is literally written on her skin at the beginning of the film, as prefigured in the image of her writing on her abdomen with a black marker pen. |
| He proposes that Boole's symbolic logic and Leibniz's work on language prefigured the development of computers, and complemented capitalism's imperative towards abstraction. |
| But what good is that if the struggles over parades are prefigured to continue endlessly, and to twist and inflame ordinary people endlessly. |
| Mead describes human existence as evolving toward an open future that cannot be prefigured with any finality. |
