Sentence examples for prologue about from inspiring English sources

So it begins in the present, with an overwritten prologue about the first whiffs of trouble.

On Broadway the characters did not appear as adults until after a somewhat dour prologue about the hard-knock life of ogres.

"Alif the Unseen" has a prologue about a secret book given by a jinn, or genie, to a Persian named Reza long ago.

You Will Be Safe Here begins with a prologue about a boy, Willem, who arrives at the gates of the New Dawn camp.

"Nigger Heaven" is a short book, made shorter still by its stand-alone prologue, about a pimp known as the Scarlet Creeper, and by its split structure, which pairs two slim novellas, one for each protagonist.

Tomalin begins her biography with a prologue about these "Poems of 1912-13," making the striking but misleading argument that Emma's death was "when Thomas Hardy became a great poet".

Your prologue warns about some great rabbis who learned really intensely about this material and had visions of God on a throne, and then went mad or became a heretic or died.

We learn about his trip to the Galapagos and his tenure with evangelical Christianity as we learn about Darwin (prologue), we learn about the issues in publicly defending evolution through his own debates with creationists (Chapter 4), and we learn about the real open questions and controversies in evolution from the World Summit on Evolution he attended in 2005 (Chapter 9).

"Well, for example, how about that prologue where Nick is working on a local newspaper in Maine?" "He's no longer in Maine".

Stephen Jeffreys, who provides a savvy new prologue, has cut about 20% of the 1610 text.

Andrei appears during the book's 1933 prologue, a vignette about the terrible disappearance of a young boy during a famine.