Sentence examples for romantic overtures from inspiring English sources

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.

What followed were surging tides of accusations and recriminations, romantic overtures and hesitant withdrawals, heated rejections and a feverish, graphic recollection of a physical liaison.

A rumor spread that Samantha had kissed him, a transgression made more egregious because she'd rejected the romantic overtures of one of her roommates.

They're not so much literal personals as interpersonal experiments: a way of making joking romantic overtures that might turn serious, given the right conditions.

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

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.

"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.