Terrence Howard plays a music mogul in a new series on Fox. 1  CHICAGO â In the presidential suite of a Hilton hotel, above a ballroom full of extras waiting to shoot a lavish party scene, sat the two lead actors of âEmpire,â a new Fox series about a feuding entertainment-industry family.
Define pretext: a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs â pretext in a sentence a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairsâ¦
A predicate is a proposition whose truâ¦th depends on the value of one or more variables. Example of a predicate: x is a country in Europe. In this example, x is the variable, and the statement is true or false depending on what is chosen for x. For x=Belgium, the statement is true; for x=Egypt, it's false.