Definition of "foreshortened" [foreshortened]

• Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten. (verb)

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• "I said I even thought it probable that their vivid feeling anticipated the day, -- that the interval between, so to speak, was "foreshortened" to them; but that"
• "Nowlan has adopted the picaresque narrative, usually to be found in sprawling tales spread out in both time and space, to create a more foreshortened, more intensely realized, indeed more "concentrated" work of fiction that would not have the same impact had it been "shaped" in some other way, had it instead come in the form of a conventional "well-made story" employing the contemporary default mode of "psychological realism.""
• "And that running some network of social programs or schemes on the basis of these (“technocratically foreshortened, instrumentalist, and administrative”) theories runs the risk of destroying “the lifeworld of everyday interactions, communities, and traditions, and the orders of human nature.”"