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  • noun Plural form of mirroring.

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Examples

  • The fact that Wolcott is played by the same actor who played Hickock's murderer, Jack McCall, in Season One, and that Utter spews exactly the same pudendal monosyllable that Hickock used on McCall, is just one of the many deft subtle-as-hell mirrorings that grace the show.

    Hour of the Gun 2005

  • Just symbols; just mirrorings of a beauty in the World of Ideas within; just places where the Spirit has touched matter, and matter, at that fiery and creative touch, has flamed up into the likeness of God, which is Beauty.

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

  • Spirit sleeps not; also the slumbering spirit is moral, — may be pure or impure; the soul of the saint cannot have unholy dreams; dreams are often unwelcome mirrorings forth of impure hearts; when

    Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • Within it, however, Tower creates a series of mirrorings that set the whole thing humming with strange, vibrant life.

    Bibliobibuli 2009

  • Of course the symbal of COWARDICE day would be the disco ball cuz it is chock full o 'da mirrorings!

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias 2009

  • Anyhow, we needed a proof, and we achieved it easily: we arranged two new websites, one in Italian and the other in English, respectively, that are in fact perfect mirrorings of uruknet, with a few graphic changes, and we put them directly on the same server where uruknet is located.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • Yeah, so it looks like an intricate pattern of mirrorings and parallels and recurrent symbolism, whereby the individual actions and general development of different characters, the metaphoric language used to describe settings, and generally all those things what them literary types kinda like to put in their books -- whereby all of those kinda sorta seem to combine as kinda sorta explications and/or explorations of an abstract concept, offering multiple perspectives, contrasting or contradictory reflections on the general topic, and maybe even some sort of resolution into a basic statement on the core idea which all of these different takes somehow pivot around.

    Duh, Tell Us About The Rabbits, George Hal Duncan 2005

  • Yeah, so it looks like an intricate pattern of mirrorings and parallels and recurrent symbolism, whereby the individual actions and general development of different characters, the metaphoric language used to describe settings, and generally all those things what them literary types kinda like to put in their books -- whereby all of those kinda sorta seem to combine as kinda sorta explications and/or explorations of an abstract concept, offering multiple perspectives, contrasting or contradictory reflections on the general topic, and maybe even some sort of resolution into a basic statement on the core idea which all of these different takes somehow pivot around.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • If Victor’s overreaching consists inis exemplified bythe transformation of maternal productivity into mechanical reproducibility, his individualistic Prometheanism nonetheless finds itself displaced into and consumed by the Gothic substitutive chains that make the novel a dream-like array of doublings and mirrorings.

    _Frankenstein_'s Cinematic Dream 2003

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