Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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In the “Fair in Piazza S. Marco” the arch from under which the Fair appears is gigantic, and he foreshortens the wing of the royal palace.
From The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps
It was quite impossible to reach Abdul—he was receding as the horizon recedes when a clear atmosphere foreshortens the distance.
From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer
But this same Welsh peasant, who thus forgets and foreshortens recent history, always remembers that there were kings of Wales once.
From 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 by Kenneth Morris
Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
The long hair hanging down from the body foreshortens the appearance of the legs and gives a quaint look to the moving herd.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
