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Example sentences for: overture

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For Berger's authorization, see NSC memo, TNT to Berger, responding to Taliban's September overture, Oct.20,2000.
I hesitate to use the word "offbeat," which has come to describe a metronomical quirkiness that's as predictable as anything on the beat, but here the surreal touches are sprung without overture, like frogs that just happen to be hopping across the screen.
In the new version, directed by Jan De Bont ( Speed , 1994; Twister , 1996), that pounding comes early and serves as an overture for a bunch of computer-generated special effects: ghosties that swirl around like Tinkerbell, statues that spring to life and grab people.
More hype for Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan . The opening scene is "an overture of pure cinema" and the climax an "almost unbearably thrilling firefight and demonstration of peak-form filmmaking."
2 is that while it helped clear Clinton of the charge of making an aggressive, unwanted sexual overture, it still contradicted the Clinton camp's official line, which was (and is) that there was no sexual overture at all , not even a welcome one.