prelude

The road winds through the foothills like a prelude, each turn offering a sharper light and a deeper green.

Years later, Cooper wrote the screenplay for “Out of the Furnace” while listening to that album, an unwitting prelude to what would eventually bring the pair together.

Coming from another breed of mom, this would be a prelude to prescriptive punishment.

Such a move could also be a prelude to de facto martial law, cancelling elections and suspending other civil rights and freedoms.

Many in Zion saw the stepped-up pressure as a prelude to a crackdown, but few anticipated it would be as large as it turned out to be, she said.