Sentence examples for without any preamble from inspiring English sources

A random England fan walked across the room without any preamble and punched my mate in the face.

Without sitting down, without introducing herself, without any preamble, she said to me, "You have to cancel the show.

Then, without any preamble, she starts a long and involved story about the summer she thought the CIA might be threatening to assassinate her… It's no great mystery where this inclination to mistrust comes from.

Guy was eager to hear about the show, but when Stanger returned from the opening the two men met on the front stairs of the studio, and, without any preamble, Stanger said, "I'm going to have to let you go".

According to Mr Spielberg, audience surveys come down in favour of films which start without any preamble, so he snips the opening credits off most of his movies (the snazzy cartoon at the beginning of "Catch Me If You Can" is a beloved outlier).

Without any preamble, McFarlane bounded onto the stage and sang Goody Goody, followed by A Foggy Day.

One of the attractions of the novel is that it can do switchback shifts of tone and changes of direction that you would never get away with in the cinema or the theatre but which are most like our experience of life – people fall in love, drop each other or drop dead without any careful preamble.

A decade ago, without any noticeable preamble, the question, "What if Margaret Mead and Amelia Earhart were lovers?" etched itself into the very core of my being.

Last Tuesday she phoned me at home, and, with barely any preamble, came right out with them.

It's the directness of his writing, and the way it plunges you into taut scenes without any kind of preamble and holds you there.

And then, without any kind of preamble, he says that Mayall is not the only close friend he has lost of late.