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Example sentences for: overture

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My problem is that I want my manuscript back, and while Jane apologized profusely for the way things went, she refuses to retrieve it for me, saying that the woman would misconstrue this as an overture.
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."
Iranian President Mohammed Khatami's televised overture to the United States earned Issue 2 honors, though this unfamiliar topic strained the pundits' omniscience.
Clinton's concern about possibly killing 10,000 Iraqis (a "medium case scenario") in the face of Iraq's overture won out.
For Berger's authorization, see NSC memo, TNT to Berger, responding to Taliban's September overture, Oct.20,2000.