prologue
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“It’s Florida, Man,” HBO Max “What you’re about to see may be dangerous, illegal, unethical, petty, misguided, immoral and most definitely stupid,” a prologue warns at the top of each episode.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
"Persistently high prices are a burden for the American people, but the recent past need not be prologue," he said after the meeting at which he also wanted wide-ranging reforms at the bank.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
But if past is prologue, the courts won’t willingly implement reform.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
And sometimes the best way to introduce an ancient Egyptian curse is via a prologue that’s tonally very much like the one in “The Exorcist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
The silence into which Briony read the prologue was tense.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Similar notes often appear in the prologues of scientific innovation or inventor profiles, interestingly enough.
From Salon ● May 15, 2019
The novel opens with a pair of prologues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2017
Plenty of films use flashbacks or prologues featuring a younger version of the protagonist to telescope an adult hero’s journey, and it can be a hokey device for any number of reasons, including misbegotten casting.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
In it, Leonard warned writers to avoid such flourishes as prologues, adverbs and overwrought descriptions and to keep their exclamation points under control.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2014
In nearly all his prologues he defends himself against the malevolence and detraction of an old poet, 'malevolus vetus poeta,' whose name is said to have been Luscius Lavinius, or Lanuvinus.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
This was one of three events that probably clouded the sunlit hours of the early comedies and prologued the dark vision of the great tragedies.
From Time Magazine Archive
No wonder he prologued his piping after the following dismal fashion:— "In dreary verse my rhymes I make, Bewailing whilst such theme I take."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
"If I fail," and Warren was dumbfounded, even after the unreal scenes which had prologued this situation.
From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Charles Goddard
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