The book's Francescho section is prefaced by the drawing of a pair of eyes held on a delicate plant's stalk – itself a version, by Smith's partner, film-maker Sarah Wood, of a detail of a del Cossa of St Lucy, patron saint of oculists, blind people and writers; according to tradition, she had her eyes taken out by her Roman oppressors.
When an item of womenswear is prefaced with the noun-turned-adjective "boyfriend", what this really means is "oversized".
Just as President Obama prefaced his speech on the decades of scientific research into the impacts of burning coal, oil and gas on the climate, Australia's Climate Commission recently laid out the issue clearly for all concerned.
He outrages contestants and viewers with the directness of his criticism (normally prefaced by "If I'm being honest…").
The encyclopedia is prefaced by a passage from Faulkner himself: "Tell about the South.
IT IS safe to say that we have passed the point at which criticisms of the European Central Bank must be prefaced with the caveat that, yes, the ECB did prevent a nasty break-up of the single currency when its head, Mario Draghi, promised to do "whatever it takes" to keep the euro zone together.
Usually every injunction that comes across any aircraft's public-address system is prefaced by: "For your comfort and safety".
Several questioners, even when asking anxiously about specific programmes they valued prefaced their remarks with a "Of course, I understand the government has to make big cuts".
On whatever Pakistan's army chooses to see, unilaterally, as its turf, none other shall tread, least of all civilian ( a word in military parlance in Pakistan that must be prefaced by the word "bloody") government.Militant Islamism as an instrument of both domestic and foreign policy in Pakistan was created, fed and pampered by the army.
Many speakers, denoting piety or loyalty to political Islam, prefaced their remarks with incantations of reverence for the Prophet Muhammad.
People call them bums, often prefaced with the word "lazy".
