(1) Anticipating and answering objections in advance
(2) Anticipating and answering objections in advance [also: prolepses (pl)]
(1) The destruction of the Vendu00f4me Column and his part in it are foreshadowed in moments of haunting prolepsis
(2) For Gilio, prolepsis was a u2018figure,u2019 a rhetorical device employed to augment the beauty of the work.
(3) Drexler's book Engines of Creation is an extraordinary exercise in prolepsis : he meticulously refutes every technical objection he can anticipate.
(4) A claim arises when one is in the right, proleptically or after some legal fact.
(5) In seeking to depict a u2018subversiveu2019 antiauthoritarian Woolf, these scholars have tended to identify her proleptically with a certain strain of nihilistic postmodernism.
(6) The proleptically elegiac texts of 1938-39 were more than simply expressions of private anxiety: their preoccupations and conclusions anticipated a significant strain of progressive political discourse during the war years.
(7) In far less obvious ways in the invocations the muses also function as proleptic mourners, shadows of disabling maternal grief against which the Miltonic speaker positions himself.
(8) Premediation, on the other hand, may be understood as proleptic , anticipatory mediation.
(9) In formulation, the utterance is predictive or proleptic (he will imminently pour himself a drink, check the contents of the bottle).
(10) Yet, to embody judgment proleptically in images is an important element of our Christian witness, a challenge to present sin, and an insistence that justice and maturity are both possible and promised.
(11) Anticipation is intuitively, ironically proleptic in that it both foresees things in their absence and, in the very act of apprehension, presents them unwittingly into being.
(12) The anti-Arcadian proleptic elegies of the late 1930s, in other words, and the critique of consolatory language they offer, can be said to have opened up a path toward the welfare state.
(13) The church is that community which paradoxically celebrates the freedom of the gift and lives with seriousness the call, leaving the world and entering provisionally and proleptically into a different order of being.