Sentence examples for in preface from inspiring English sources

In "Preface," Czeslaw Milosz said that "serious combat, where life is at stake, / Is fought in prose," adding, "It was not always so".

I should say in preface that as I am unable to afford tickets to the NHL playoff games I have been watching them at home on my television, which is not HD, nor a flat-screen, and consequently I do not see the entire ice during these games.

Thirty (30) PCR cycles were executed in preface experiment within the exponential phase of amplification.

These ideas were sketched out in Preface to Plato but became central to Havelock's work from Prologue to Greek Literacy (1971) onward.

"We're not a cover band," Rodgers said, in preface to a 15-minute medley of hits he'd written or produced for other artists, including Ross's "I'm Coming Out" and "Upside Down," along with "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge.

In preface to the first edition, the editor announced: The first edition of this work, published in 1861, was received so favourably that the author has felt bound to bestow his utmost care upon a minute and thorough revision of his book, in the hope of bringing up the information it contains to the existing state of knowledge.

Such writers were not content with imaginative creation alone: they also explained their work and defined their method in prefaces, reflections, essays, self-portraits, and critical articles.

In prefacing her discussion of "Spinster," though, Gornick laments as reckless some of the movement's more extreme rhetoric: Marriage was rape, we cried, motherhood slavery.

"I was disappointed; I was not impressed," said Lauren Rich Fine, the analyst for Merrill Lynch, in prefacing her question to Mr. Bell.

As Johnson himself said in prefacing his Dictionary: "Many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature of the undertaking, than the negligence of the performer".

Indeed, according to the slightly tongue-in-cheek preface he wrote: " … of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy".