| 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. |
| This proleptic eschatology is expressed as the final prayer under the groom's canopy and at the wedding feast. |
| The italics are ours, but the proleptic idea is a happy invention of the author himself. |
| 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. |
| Is Mr. Rossetti acquainted with the proleptic use of adjectives and participles? |
| 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. |
