Sentence examples similar to key opening gambit from inspiring English sources

To quote Alicia Keys in her opening gambit, "We believe Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake'".

The opening gambit notwithstanding, one of Hobsbawm's key points is that, while the intimacy of face-to-face meeting is inimitable, glad-handing isn't the point.

It's a canny opening gambit, a reminder that art history's canon remains open-ended.

Have a good opening gambit.

Back to that opening gambit.

That is just her opening gambit.

Plz advise," was his opening gambit.

View all that as an opening gambit.

And sexy," was her opening gambit.

This was Joe Hockey's opening gambit tonight.

How many notes is in this opening gambit here?