Harbinger

The crowing of a cock is the harbinger of dawn.

Those ideas were the harbinger of democracy.

Tom is a harbinger of misfortune.

The swallow is a harbinger of summer.

My fingers deftly flew across the keyboard taking diligent notes for hours on end (unbeknownst to me, this would be a harbinger of the times to come, as my fingers now seem perpetually connected to the keyboard day after day).

The swallow is the harbinger of spring.

harbinger of danger; harbinger of doom; harbinger of spring

Make all our Trumpets ſpeak, giue thẽ all breath / Thoſe clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death

I knew by these harbingers who were coming.

It’s to realize that Moon Frye, by cheerfully surveilling her own life, and those first Real Worlders, by agreeing to the constant presence of producers and cameras, were the harbingers of today’s culture, in which self-image is shaped in the expectation of a lens and personhood collates with brand identity.