Sentence examples for overtures a from inspiring English sources

– The bill defines sexual harassment, which includes "physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures," a demand for sexual favors and showing pornography to a woman who does not want to see it.

The 1976 show "Pacific Overtures," a groundbreaking East-West musical hybrid and a product of the post-Vietnam era, pointedly questions the glib imperialist assumptions of "The King and I".

"Family Overtures," a musical introduction to the operetta giving plot summaries is especially suited to children and is free to ticket holders, tomorrow at 1 45 p.m. before the matinee performance.

He wrote in his Mémoires (1870) how unproductive he was after the rich output of the Paris years, which had brought forth an oratorio, numerous cantatas, two dozen songs, a mass, part of an opera, two overtures, a fantasia on Shakespeare's Tempest, and eight scenes from Goethe's Faust, as well as the Symphonie fantastique.

Regardless, composers increasingly turned to the "more compact form" of the concert overture "as a vehicle within which to blend musical, narrative and pictoral ideas"; examples included Mendelssohn's overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream (1826) and The Hebrides (1830).

During the overture a woman sits masturbating on a sofa.

However, a fair-sized minority has already given Old Mutual's overture a frosty reception.

Today, all we have is an overture, a fragment of a symphony.

At their best - as on Overture, a collaboration with Tracey Thorn - they are utterly beguiling.

The Egmont overture, a true Beethovenian call to arms, had a rather solid feel.

But the rest was all overture, a taste of the key themes to come.