kaleidoscopic

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Metaphorically, the family's lived world, how they experience at this particular cross-section of their lives, can be symbolically described as a kaleidoscopic telescoping of its past and anticipated future.

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  1. Relating to the kaleidoscope; varying or variegated like the forms and colors in a kaleidoscope: as, kaleidoscopic views; kaleidoscopic combinations of color. Her generation certainly would have lost one of its representative and original creations: representative in a versatile, kaleidoscopic presentment of modern life and issues. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 141.

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  • As we drift on the flowing thoroughfare toward the golden spires of Bangkok, kaleidoscopic surprises of summer salute us on either hand. —  The English Governess at the Siamese Court
  • By asking questions, by listening when my wise friends talked, by reading, by pondering and dreaming, I slowly gathered together the kaleidoscopic bits of the stupendous panorama which is painted in the literature of Darwinism. —  The Promised Land
  • After cleaning up the trailer as best we could, we headed back into town for lunch. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • But rather than making them back down, the successful attack on their fellow Jouster infuriated the rest. —  Aerie
  • Metaphorically, the family's lived world, how they experience at this particular cross-section of their lives, can be symbolically described as a kaleidoscopic telescoping of its past and anticipated future. —  Humanistic Nursing
 

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/kælaɪdəˈskɑpɪk/
by Grant Barrett
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