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adumbration (ad´  mbrā´shn),n a geometric lack of sharpness of the radiograph shadow. See also penumbra, geometric. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Personally, I have no objection to celluloid puking, provided it is
done tastefully and is used primarily to adumbrate the lofty themes of
the film. They do,
however, adumbrate a generally more sophisticated view of the emerging
imagined community than the prints Steele describes. Interweaving the narrative with a young mother
searching for meaning and an entomologist whose rationalist diligence
leads to the discovery of a new species of moth, Mettler adumbrates an
underlying theme in all of his work: the search, as he puts it, for a
"balance between intellect and intuition, order and chaos, action
and perception. |
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