Sentence examples for lengthy overture from inspiring English sources

Divided into two parts, with a lengthy overture and other substantial instrumental sections, the work reveals Spohr's chromatic idiom and command of orchestral writing, although it feels too long at 75 minutes.

(The lengthy overture to Le prophète had to be cut in its entirety, surviving only in a piano arrangement by Charles-Valentin Alkan).

There are moments when her casual charm overcomes the stilted scripting, when she makes a show that must be an effort for a 65-year-old - lengthy orchestral overtures and appearances by cut-price Il Divos notwithstanding - seem no effort at all.

An overture?

Lengthy hold.

Too lengthy?

Lengthy sentences.

Lengthy discussion.

That was the overture.

It was an overture.

No question, Variation No. 16, a French overture, proclaims a new beginning at the halfway point, but No. 15 does not provide conclusion enough to justify a lengthy interruption.