Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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In the light of a vivid recollection, the long tract between fades and foreshortens, till only the Then and the Now are notable.
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
His knowledge of anatomy is great and he foreshortens on canvas and ceiling astonishingly before the advent of Michael Angelo.
From Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
The prophet always foreshortens his revelation, and generally blends the city of God with a vision of his own country transfigured.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
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
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
