Sentence examples for without preliminaries from inspiring English sources

PREMINGER (again without preliminaries): Sit down.

Its existence was announced without preliminaries in 2005, when government ministries were relocated there overnight.

One of them is presented to him and, without preliminaries, he mounts.

He was seated in a wicker chair drawn up to my bed when I awakened one afternoon from a bludgeoning dream and he began lecturing me without preliminaries.

"It came without preliminaries or any prior signals," wrote the pro-government daily newspaper An Nahar, "and has been wrapped in an envelope of justifications that were not to the liking even of pro-government circles".

Without further preliminaries he began lathering the agronomist's cheeks.

PREMINGER (quickly, without elaborate preliminaries, eager to get to the point): You live here?

Not Pato himself, who would be asked to endure without any preliminaries a daunting mid-season uplift in physical intensity – the Scott Dann Factor, the Lee Cattermole Possibility – plus the trauma of a fourth team in three years.

They dived straight on Southampton, without any preliminaries, through a barrage of gunfire, one after the other.

So, without any preliminaries, he sat down at his keyboard and Russell took his place by the mic.

Not without a few preliminaries, of course.