preface

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If ever the Shakespearean warning about those who “doth protest too much” seemed apt, Skandalakis’ overly long preface to his motion surely qualifies.

From Salon

In a preface, the film director Guillermo del Toro likens this collection to early modern cabinets of curiosities, whose juxtapositions of natural and artificial objects were meant to expose a hidden order of existence.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the report’s preface, Mark D. Brewer of the University of Maine asserts that “today’s Republican and Democratic Parties have evolved to a place where they emphasize difference, stoke fear and animosity, and incite conflict.”

From Los Angeles Times

It turns out that DeSantis is not very good at debate, at least not the kind that prefaces a presidential election.

From Los Angeles Times

But as he prefaced his remark by saying he was the only one on stage not "bought and paid for", it was unclear what the audience was responding to.

From BBC