overture
Example Sentences
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But those two events are mere overture to “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare”—a nonfiction thriller that marks the 15th anniversary of what was certainly a catastrophe but might well have been worse.
Warner’s latest move marks an about-face after months of rejecting Paramount’s overtures.
Kim had largely ignored these overtures and dashed hopes of rapprochement in a fiery statement delivered at the end of a landmark party congress.
From Barron's
In the popular overture, elicitation of tumult concludes, with startling exhilaration, in the kind of grand Beethovenian triumph that never fails to excite.
From Los Angeles Times
At the same time, the Yugoslav government was making overtures to Illinois Representative - and later Governor - Rod Blagojevich, then the only Serbian-American in Congress.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
