It is a kind of perfect prelude to considering a menu and enjoying a meal in a restaurant.

It is the perfect prelude to Ivens's last film, "A Tale of the Wind."

This excellent performance provides a perfect prelude to those equally potent sessions, and all come highly recommended".

It's the perfect prelude to the album, and a great song to get you in the mood for a party.

It would thus seem to make for a perfect prelude to the regular season for the Mets.

It was the perfect prelude to a bit of botanical time travel, for when I arrived at the mission my senses had adjusted to the muted color palette of the native vegetation.

The amuse-bouche, an icy cold Kumamoto oyster with Mr. Burke's tarted-up mignonette sauce of soy, orange and lemon grass, is a perfect prelude.

For the Cowboys (8-1), this was the perfect prelude to their much-anticipated game against the 49ers this coming Sunday - a surgically precise performance that did not exact a heavy physical toll.

It was really a perfect prelude, she thought.

I smiled and thought it was the perfect prelude.