Prefacing
Meaning
of Preface
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
Which Sorkin's script gets at, albeit in incomplete fashion, by prefacing the three acts with a clip featuring 2001: A Space Odyssey author Arthur C. Clarke.
The court ordered the jury and the witness out for a third time, citing counsel once again for contempt for prefacing "no further questions" with an "absolutely contemptuous remark."
Sheinkin doesn't shy away from the grim reality of life for black soldiers, prefacing his story with a context of segregation, discrimination, and even murder.