foreshadowing
fawr sha doh ing
- n the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
- v indicate by signs
- s indistinctly prophetic
- Surprisingly, it also works as a prescient foreshadowing of issues that continue to be relevant at the start of the 21st century.
- Still, while explaining what is happening behind the Iron Curtain, Zorza has often found patterns foreshadowing later events.
- In the TV business, they call that foreshadowing.