prefatory remarks

'Before we retroscend allow me a few prefatory remarks on your pants.

(Again, a few prefatory remarks might have been useful.

"I have a few prefatory remarks," Jake began.

Our first class started charmingly enough, with a round of introductions and some gentle prefatory remarks by the instructor.

'Er - yes, pray read the document without any prefatory remarks,' said Croucher.

Three further prefatory remarks are necessary.

"As a matter of fact, I've just been running my memory back over your prefatory remarks each time you unveiled some new, useful technique or invention.

Sacred Specimens selected from the Early English Poets, with Prefatory Remarks, 1827.

"I have a few prefatory remarks, and then I'd like to turn this briefing over to Secretary Wing," Jordan said with a nod in her direction.

Benedictus Levita, using what is obviously an assumed name, claims in his prefatory remarks to have been a deacon in the church of Mainz.

With Observations on the "Prefatory Remarks" to a pamphlet published by Major Scott Waring.

Kask felt that "Gary Gygax, in his prefatory remarks, spreads the credit around, but the majority of the kudos should be heaped on his shoulders".

Strong also published several sermons, and wrote prefatory remarks to Robert Dingley's Spiritual Taste Described, London, 1649.

The intent, as Mr. Slatkin suggested in prefatory remarks, was to honor worthy American music, while not incidentally sending red blood coursing through the veins of patriots.

The book was dedicated to John Owen, and in prefatory remarks Wallis (a Presbyterian) avows that his differences with Hobbes are largely rooted in theology.

In these and subsequent collections, a terse "main case" of a kōan often accompanies prefatory remarks, poems, proverbs and other phrases, and further commentary about prior emendations.

The reference is to his "Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants, with Notes and Prefatory Remarks by John Lindley," London, 1830-38, Folio.

Indication of a Surprise It was during the 27 minutes of prefatory remarks by Judge Wood that one got the impression that a surprise was in the offing.

Most often the impression was of many-layered chaos (in prefatory remarks, Mr. Slatkin compared Mr. Ligeti's music to that of Ives), but there were easily digested sections, too.

'Catholique Divinity; or the most solid and sententious expressions of the Primitive Doctors of the Church, with other Ecclesiastical and Civil Authors,' &c., 1657, (prefatory remarks by H. M.)

The American edition, which has an English translation by Michael Brodsky, a novelist heavily influenced by Beckett, has a series of prefatory remarks by the lawyer Martin Garbus and others defending the play.

This time I responded with some calm, prefatory remarks concerning the basketball coach, before launching into a lecture on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including the difficulties of getting in because it was a super "hot" school.

With Prefatory Remarks on the Causes and Cure of Our Present Distresses as Originating from Neglect of Principles Laid Down in These Works (London: Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822).

For reasons made only more obscure in prefatory remarks by the director, Andrea Goodman (something about poetry and music and American nationality), the first half of the concert consisted of works by Amy Marcy Beach and George Whitefield Chadwick.

They explain in their prefatory remarks that rather than let their own prejudices determine what was worth knowing about foreign cultures, they contacted dozens of scholars from around the world, inviting them to submit lists of the most important cultural contributions from their parts of the globe.