What is "unfolded"

Usage examples of "unfolded".

Intellect as such being found identical with Being or Substance, and therefore prior to all the Existents, which may be regarded as its species or members, we may infer that the intellect, considered as completely unfolded, is a subsequent.

I am not here saying that the informing Idea is the cause of the thing--though this is true--but that the Idea itself, unfolded, reveals the cause inherent in it.

Intellective causes which are to be unfolded from it, author as it is not of the chance--made but of what the divine willed: and this willing was not apart from reason, was not in the realm of hazard and of what happened to present itself.

After just a moment fear replaced astonishment, and then a universe of possibilities unfolded before him.

Despite his best effort, despite running through the entire litany of the meditations, nothing unfolded in his mind to lead him into the overworld of forms.

With the assistance of one of his aides, he unfolded a long parchment map on a wooden frame, then took his place beside it.

Perception unfolded, the sky falling away in a riot of blazing lights and swimming with patterns of force.

The Kagan smiled, thinking of the bloody brawl at close quarters that unfolded along the long lines of Romans.

The Roman lines in the middle had suddenly unfolded like a steel flower.

Cooper removed a black case from his pocket, opened it, and unfolded his glasses.

They sat flush against her back, and as Alan watched, they unfolded and flexed, flapped a few times, and settled back into their position, nested among the soft roll of flesh that descended from her neck.

Mimi joined him, sitting down next to him, her wings unfolded across the sofa back.

All she had to do was be herself, enjoy where she found herself, and be aware as life unfolded before her.

Again and again they were filled with wrath, and in their graves they unfolded a proud banner and rushed with it into the mountains.

Nothing greater Unfolded, nothing in fact Unfolded at all, so perhaps he had found no key to it yet.