| Cowell's own work with non-traditional methods of playing the piano prefigured John Cage's compositions for prepared piano. |
| The opening of the Sonata's first movement, for example, blends serialism and passacaglia in a way prefigured in the opera's final scene. |
| But what good is that if the struggles over parades are prefigured to continue endlessly, and to twist and inflame ordinary people endlessly. |
| Snatches of conversation, remembered precepts, and prefigured cries of terror bombinate about his skull. |
| 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. |
| Together they prefigured not only Wisdom and generative power, but evil as well. |
