proleptic

• “That's just called proleptic writing, and it's been around since, what, the times of the Ancient Greeks?”

  Comic Book Dictionary – Hang a Lampshade | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

• “This offered an uncannily accurate definition of the adjective 'proleptic' – attempting to come to terms with something that has yet to happen, or, to put it more cynically, getting your retaliation in first.”

  The Guardian: Newspapers go back in time to launch new attacks on the trade unions

• “The right likes to pretend it didn't lose; the center flatters itself that it's where all the vital action is; and at least some of the left is habituated to a kind of proleptic-disappointment mode, ready to jump ship two months before it sails.”

  Obama: "I Don't Think There's Any Question That We Have A Mandate"

• “Furthermore, their ideological interest in his doing so became his own over time and fully congruent with the atheistic triumphalism in Huxley's words of proleptic appreciation for the Origin: ‘You have killed God, Sir.’”

  Channeling Religious Impulses

• “Instead of books the public is offered conformity via four-wall TV, with the sound piped directly into their heads via shell-shaped earbuds a brilliant proleptic leap on the part of Bradbury.”

  The Guardian: The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction

• “While he was downstairs preparing for the universally known ending which lends any Passion theatre such a strange proleptic tension, I was still working out how we were going to get there.”

  The Guardian: Owen Sheers: a Passion play for Port Talbot

• “Potentiality would in this sense be not proleptic, but, again, a present force in consciousness.”

  Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian

• “Ratiophobia, a label that herein fits, fits your own evasiveness and demonizing proleptic rhetoric.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas

• “So, in the various Romantic precedents we find here, we can name Romantic psychic organization as the site of a profoundly productive ambivalence, at once foundational and proleptic.”

  Introduction

• “Drama, the Trauerspiel replaces the tragic agon, in which the hero is symbolically clenched in a silence proleptic of a language still to come.”

  Post-Secular Conviviality

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