Sentence examples for romantic overture from inspiring English sources

President Obama's acceptance speech on Thursday wasn't a sweeping romantic overture, it was the cautious declaration of a chastened husband trying to save a troubled marriage.

Mary's boss, in a weak romantic overture, invites her on a road trip to Los Angeles, mecca of movies, artifice and plastic surgery.

"This wasn't a romantic overture but more 'Hey isn't this funny?' It's a small world, of all the agencies in this town, of course we would end up represented by the same one".

No need to wait to launch a charm offensive - the heavy hint, sporting gesture or romantic overture all attract a sympathetic response... Muhammad Ali, 17 Jan 1942 20 Jan-19 Feb It's a case of two steps forward, one step backward for the rest of January.

Among the evidence gathered by investigators, law enforcement officials say, is a statement from a friend of Mr. Johnson, a teenage girl who says she rebuffed a romantic overture by him in his bedroom less than two hours before he died.

His encounter with this young woman (played by Zoey Deutch), whose name, as Jake learns much later, is Beverly, leads to a sweetly romantic overture that sparks a phone conversation that gives rise to a brief meeting that leads to a date at a party and a night that turns into a morning, and ends at the door of the building where Jake goes for his first class.

Some contributed wrenching accounts of romantic overtures by bosses, catcalls from strangers and sexual assault.

Repeated refusals of his romantic overtures led to even more attempts — even an unnerving love letter.

Haseena was blinded and completely disfigured by her boss when she refused his romantic overtures.

Over that summer and the next one, she welcomed Mr. Bucklin's friendship but not his romantic overtures.

The fizzy 1956 work fused a distinctly Chinese lyricism to a robust exuberance familiar from countless Romantic overtures.