Prefaces

The items that failed to pass contain prefaces for the Mass for various occasions; votive Masses and Masses for the dead; solemn blessings for the end of Mass; prayers over the people and eucharistic prayers for particular occasions, such as for evangelization or holy orders. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Long before chefs could serve themselves up to a mass public on television, Soyer's books were both widely distributed, and offered ample opportunity for self-presentation, in prefaces and title pages, frontispieces and other illustrations, and even throughout the text, as we shall see in the case of his ❋ Unknown (2007)

The prefaces from the first and second volumes of The ❋ Unknown (2002)

His prefaces are a complete log of his life, and the habit of writing them was a useful one to him, for it forced him to think with a pen in his hand, which, according to Goethe, "if it do no other good, keeps the mind from staggering about." ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

The French literary theorist Gérard Genette coined the neologism ‘paratext’ to describe subsidiary and secondary material such as prefaces, post-scripts, footnotes and illustrations, which illuminate, but are ultimately subservient to, the principle text. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But first came a more urgent question: Had his uncle and his "prefaces" committed him to forswear tobacco? ❋ Unknown (1907)

The prefaces reflect the political tumult of the day: the spread of Nazism and the consolidation of Stalinism. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

Among other things, the revised edition of the Missale Romanum contains prayers for the observances of recently canonized saints, additional prefaces for the Eucharistic Prayers, additional Votive Masses and Masses and Prayers for Various Needs and Intentions, and some updated and revised rubrics (instructions) for the celebration of the Mass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the book appeared, the last part included two prefaces, one written in Vienna in March 1938 and one written three months later in London. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

Later editions of the book even have prefaces in which Card boasts about the letters he has received from smart kids telling him how inspiring they found the book! ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bank has held interest rates at 5.5%, a 30-year-low, after six consecutive rate-setting meetings, and analysts said that strategy would be unaffected byTuesday's disappointing GDP data unless it prefaces a more disappointing showing in the fourth quarter. ❋ Patrick McGroarty (2011)

Whoa, now she sounds almost exactly like the prefaces that I and many of my colleagues placed ahead of our year-end favorites! ❋ SVGL (2009)

He advertised her work in magazines he wrote for, used her prefaces to his novels, tried every which way to get her a deal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When someone prefaces his or her purpose with a statement of incontrovertible authority, you have a divine mission. ❋ Edward Muzio (2011)

He observed that the two prefaces “contradict each other.” ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

To send a DM to a Twitter follower using TweetDeck, the Twitter application Weiner was reportedly using when he sent the fateful photo, a user prefaces a tweet with the letter D, followed by the Twitter username of the person he or she wants to communicate with privately e.g. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Though she long ago left off playing strictly classical music, she's hardly left it behind and often prefaces a Great American Songbook standard into which she's about to delve with something Bach-fugue-like or maybe plangent measures from a George Gershwin concerto. ❋ David Finkle (2011)