prologue
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If the past is prologue, everyone will have a problem with the reboot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“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
The tale of Cadmus and his daughters is only a prologue to the greater story.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
In the show’s second season, episode prologues that tell characters’ back stories function as short films of their own, with distinct tones and time frames.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
But these are just prologues to be forgotten as the routine that makes sitcoms feel like life takes over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2021
Similar notes often appear in the prologues of scientific innovation or inventor profiles, interestingly enough.
From Salon ● May 15, 2019
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
The prologues of Ariosto's comedies, the Negromante and the Cassaria, are also in classical metres.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
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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