| The Beatitudes should be seen, according to Betz, as an exordium for the entire Sermon. |
| What he finally said, after a long exordium, was that at the earliest opportunity a democratic congress should determine France's political future. |
| First comes an introduction, or exordium, designed to secure a favorable hearing. |
| Obviously, this exordium was greeted with little enthusiasm by certain federal employees. |
| Beginning his exordium with high-minded praise of the intellect, he declares that the contemporary world's rightful rulers are the wise and moral. |
| But even Melville might have blenched at Browning's final exordium. |
