Sentence examples for overture without from inspiring English sources

The Labor leader managed to deliver this flattering diagnosis of his press club overture without laughing.

I tried not to think of this on my first visit to Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, but it was like trying to listen to the "William Tell" Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

To acknowledge the death of Beverly Sills and also her enthusiasm and charm in life, the Philharmonic played Bernstein's "Candide" Overture without a conductor, as is its custom in tribute to Bernstein.

At the same time, Pakistan has disrupted some efforts by Mr. Karzai to reach out to Taliban leaders hiding in Pakistan, presumably because he made those overtures without Pakistan's approval.

The woman's presence exposes a tangle of rage and confused sexuality in this all-male household, but in the end she decides to stay with the father and his two sons after having accepted their sexual overtures without protest from her overly detached husband.

Syjuco is a writer already touched by greatness, but his truly uncommon gifts delight all the more when they are permitted to emerge subtly, without overture.

Democratic Congressional leaders were muted in their support for the president's plan and were troubled that Mr. Obama had made his overture to Republicans without any sign that they would compromise in return.

In addition to the uncanny standard "My Ship," the comic novelty "Tschaikowsky" (Kaye raced through the names of forty-nine Russian composers in well under a minute), and an analytical cure by the final curtain, it offers a distinctly modern structure, beginning without an overture, in a psychiatrist's office, and unfolding through four spectral dream sequences.

Lo Duca, meanwhile, maintained that the Mets went after three catchers — Jorge Posada, Yorvit Torrealba and Brian Schneider — without making an overture toward him.

Without it the overture wouldn't be an overture, and the whole programme would be quite different".

So Ford privately approached DaimlerChrysler to suggest teaming up online-without revealing the Ford-GM plans, and without telling GM about the overture.