The system had astounding capacity, and the room was soon filled with the somber, inevitable cadences of this prelude to intercourse.
"I'm gonna kill somebody today," Danny Aiello says out loud, in a stark prelude to the inevitable violence.
A recording of Hughes reading "Fear no more the heat o' the Sun" echoed through Westminster Abbey, a fitting prelude to that inevitable posthumous limbo.
Intellectually minded Christians, in particular, had a habit of talking about Hitchens as though he were one of them already — a convert in the making, whose furious broadsides against God were just the prelude to an inevitable reconciliation.
Some opponents of smoking on film see a chaos of individual policies as the prelude to an inevitable broad agreement to banish tobacco from all but adult-rated films.
Meanwhile, over at the World's Least Atmospheric Wedding Reception, a tipsy Katie and Richard were doing that "mumbling silently while staring at each other's mouth as a prelude to an inevitable love smackdown" TV thing that nobody in real life has ever done, ever.
The fact that the rest of Congress hates you proves your purity, and your every loss is not a setback but a prelude to an inevitable victory.
The township's warning road signs now cluttering the landscape (Briefing, March 4) will signal the prelude to citations and the inevitable legal attacks.
In the brief poem "Prelude to a Parting", the speaker instinctively senses the inevitable and implicit end of her relationship, especially when her lover draws away from her touch.
A year ago, a national title seemed inevitable for Connecticut, and the N.C.A.A. women's tournament served merely as a prelude to a coronation.
