| Premediation, on the other hand, may be understood as proleptic, anticipatory mediation. |
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| Gillian's inability to relate her mental life to her body is strengthened by a proleptic vision of her ageing body within an analeptic description of her youthful body. |
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| This proleptic eschatology is expressed as the final prayer under the groom's canopy and at the wedding feast. |
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| 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. |
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| The final chapter of the book stresses the importance of Coleridge's conclusions, and their proleptic contributions to Victorian Toryism. |
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| According to Wills:Conservatives find in him a proleptic attack on the welfare state, a defense of states' rights, and the insistence on democracy's need of a supporting religion. |
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| Kaplan can be a terrible storyteller, maddeningly proleptic, interrupting marriages to go back to engagements, topic-sentencing a paragraph with one person's illness and devoting all the rest of it to another's giving birth. |
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| The implication was that he'd been with men before and then decided — in a way that suggested a proleptic sacrifice — to martyr himself with a straight life. |
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