How To Use prefatory In A Sentence
- It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory.
- The content of a book or document exclusive of prefatory matter, codicils, indexes, or appendices.
- ‘I am neither a historian nor a lawyer,’ Malkin reminds her reader in the book's prefatory note.
- Legal Adviser Koh alluded to the importance and, within the executive branch and the State Department, the independent weight of that traditional jurisprudence in the beginning of his speech, in which he made some important — but by the press largely not-understood as being important — prefatory framing remarks about the internal jurisprudence of the executive branch. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Harold Koh’s Defense of Drones Also the Defense of Targeting a US Citizen?
- The content of a book or document exclusive of prefatory matter, codicils, indexes, or appendices.
- There's the usual prefatory shenanigans with father Pod (Christopher Eccleston) mountain-climbing the stairs to get into a tin of Quality Street, while his bored teenager Arrietty (Aisling Loftus) sulks in her sleeping bag (a hiking sock) and missus Homily (Sharon Horgan) busies herself in a kitchenette fashioned from pencil stubs and bottle tops. Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
- In a characteristic Spielberg move, this prefatory sequence is conceived in miraculous terms: the horse and his boy surging triumphantly over the stony ground, driving their ploughshare through solid rock to a persistently soaring soundtrack. War Horse – review
- The landlady first gave a kind of prefatory yell, which was only a prelude of war-whoop, introductory to that which was to follow. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
- The content of a book or document exclusive of prefatory matter, codicils, indexes, or appendices.
- The question-begging leap of logic here is Posner's interjection of "since," when dealing with the connection between the what's known as the prefatory and operative clauses of the 2nd Amendment. Judge Richard A. Posner on the D.C. guns case (Heller): "In Defense of Looseness."