foretaste

In a foretaste of his behaviour during his Old Bailey trials, Gordon tried to sack his lawyer and said he was too sick to attend court.

That applies whether you think the current troubles are just a blip or a foretaste of the job losses that technological changes are bringing to the industry, she said.

According to the Olympic Studies Center, at this point “they play a double role: In addition to announcing the Games, they provide a foretaste of their visual identity.”

He warned that religious discrimination of the kind he saw in the Finney case “may spread and may be a foretaste of things to come.”

“But if this a foretaste of the feast to come, then we’re in massive trouble.”