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Example sentences for: overture

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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."
In calling in the CIA to help on Flight 800, the FBI was making a peace overture in a bitter, age-old rivalry.
He wrote: "Just two weeks ago, however, Steele repeated to Newsweek that Willey had told her about a sexual 'overture' by Clinton."
From this brilliant overture, it's obvious that the writer-director, David O. Russell, wants to break down your defenses against cinema's violent imagery: He's juxtaposing farce and atrocity in ways that few American directors have dared.
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.