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Example sentences for: overture

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If he declines your overture, you will have definitive information that the Coffee Shop Man holds no possibilities ...
Some women are subject to violence if they refuse a sexual overture, ask their husband to use a condom, or request an HIV test.
For Berger's authorization, see NSC memo, TNT to Berger, responding to Taliban's September overture, Oct.20,2000.
We hear the horns of The Mikado overture, then Leigh cuts to the fully realized opening scene on stage at the Savoy: "We are gentlemen of Japan …" Just that chorus is enough to reanimate the audience--to make people sit up and grin.
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."