| Those marks have less to do with adumbrating a contour than with digging their way into your unconscious. |
| Reisz, however, tried to add resonance by adumbrating a system of moral counterbalances between hero and heroine, with the designated victim finally gaining ascendancy over her nemesis. |
| What makes his essays about Donald McGill's seaside postcards, and Dickens, and the decline of the English murder, and Billy Bunter so acute is his talent for describing closed worlds and for adumbrating their conventions. |
| A President who for years has been adumbrating the dangers of getting involved in a messy civil war in Syria is now leading the United States precisely in that direction. |
