| More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life. |
| An introduction sketches the book's key terms and thereby adumbrates its themes, especially the principal pair of beauty and the infinite. |
| One of the many virtues of Gil's valuable and consistently interesting book is that it insists upon and adumbrates the possibilities of this resource. |
| A second theme on which he adumbrates is the power, or powerlessness of the Queen, because in the end the book is about the Queen and the British Monarchy. |
| His brief, restless visit to the nearby family museum adumbrates the frailty of privilege and its mementos. |
| With song titles such as Burn the Witch and Someone's in the Wolf, it adumbrates bad things lurking in the woods. |
