She was slightly uneasy lest her overtures should be misunderstood. By the time they reached the first long, sunny stretch of the road down to town she was so afraid that those overtures would not be ``misunderstood'' that she marched on beside him in the hot sun. She did not leave him until they reached the corner of Pike avenue--and then it was he that left her, for she could cudgel out no excuse for going further in his direction. The only hold she had got upon him for a future attempt was slight indeed--he had vaguely agreed to lend her some books.英文原著 · 《The Conflict》
She was making her replies as brief as civility permitted. He observed her narrowly. She was not shy, not embarrassed. What kind of game was this? It could not be in sincere nature for a person in her position thus to treat overtures, friendly and courteous overtures, from one in his position. And never before-- never--had a woman been thus unresponsive. Instead of feeling relief that she had disentangled him from the plight into which his impulsive offer had flung him, he was piqued--angered--and his curiosity was inflamed as never before about any woman.英文原著 · 《The Dust》
However, in the vestibule the press was thinning out. It was understood that the overture had begun. Other people who were waiting like Laura and her sister had been joined by their friends and had gone inside. Laura, for whom this opera night had been an event, a thing desired and anticipated with all the eagerness of a girl who had lived for twenty-two years in a second- class town of central Massachusetts, was in great distress. She had never seen Grand Opera, she would not have missed a note, and now she was in a fair way to lose the whole overture.英文原著 · 《The Pit》
I can't explain. It is all confused, even to myself.... This love is quite different from what I thought."
He sighed again. "Love is a strong drink. Perhaps it is too strong for human beings. And I think that it overtures our reason in different ways."
They remained sitting side by side, staring straight before them with unseeing eyes. "It doesn't matter," said Sullenbode at last, with a smile, getting up. "Soon it will be ended, one way or another.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
Crash!--the first _coup d'archet_ announced the overture, and roused her energy, as if Ithuriel's spear had pricked her. She came down dressed, to listen at one of the upper entrances, to fill herself with the musical theme, before taking her part in it, and also to gauge the audience and the singers.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
We crept about, quietly. Every one winced at the sound of the overture. It was as if one dead lay within the walls--one who belonged to us.英文原著 · 《Autobiographies》
♪ Life is a never- ending show, old sport ♪ ♪ Except the minor detail that it ends ♪ ♪ The overture's a lifetime But the show is short ♪ ♪ Here with all your family and friends ♪ ♪ You run the race You blurt your lines ♪ ♪ They put your face On shirts and shrines ♪ ♪ And giant signs a thousand feet美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Why in the world do they play the "1812 Overture" at a fireworks show?美剧 · 《House of Cards》
If sergeant scott fit the profile, he would have reacted to my overture with one emotion-- disgust.美剧 · 《Lie to me》