Sentence examples for overture not from inspiring English sources

But no music comes to mind, maybe because this is his moment, his place, an overture not yet written.

The musical allusions were offered at face value: the fate motif from Wagner's "Ring" not overly portentous, Rossini's galloping "William Tell" Overture not overly hyper.

You sensed that greater rehearsal time was lavished on choicer items; the orchestra sounded more handsome and assured in Ravel's "Shéhérazade" — a limpid 1898 overture, not the 1903 song cycle of the same title — and in all that followed.

Soon, however, he broke his own rhetorical spell by following his eloquent overture not with a magnanimous announcement, but with some none-too-subtle pointing of the finger at China.

Google took several years before figuring out their revenue model (and it was Overture, not Google, that showed the way).

It wasn't the conducting by Pablo Heras', at the time: Heavy-handed in an overture (not included on the subsequent recordings) and occasionally covering the soloists in the concertos.

You don't trust a guy like that with gracious overtures, not even in the midst of a terrific show.

The tussle over the staging of Thursday's meeting suggests the extent to which each side is trying to use it to make overtures not to each other, but to the viewing public.

Indeed, some blacks accepted the president's overtures — not for any trust of their motive but rather to escape the uncertain and potentially violent future of the post-slavery United States.

But whether the unilateral communication should really be seen as a diplomatic overture and not an ad for the president's cosmopolitanism wasn't clear.

Even the overture is not quite right.