Crossword-Solution: OVERTURES 9 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Introductory offers 1 answer
Wooing attempts 1 answer
William Tell and others 1 answer
Romantic proposals 1 answer
Opera preceders 1 answer
Opening pieces 1 answer
Negotiation preceders 1 answer
Musical show opener. 1 answer
Musical openers 1 answer
Musical intros 1 answer
Musical introductions often played before the main act 1 answer
Initiatives 1 answer
Grand openings? 1 answer
Friendly moves. 1 answer
First efforts at compromise 1 answer
Emulate Rossini et al? 1 answer
EXHAUSTS TO EXCESS 1 answer
Beethoven's Leonore ___. 1 answer
Musical introductions 2 answers
Proposals. 6 answers
pleas 8 answers
INTRODUCTIONS 10 answers
CANTON TELL, WILLIAM 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERTURES (5)

Andersen’s tiresome overtures of friendship, the stout contralto in the choir whom she so unreasonably hated, and even, for a little while, the torment of her work.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Beauchamp continued--“My heart was interested in your behalf the first moment I saw you, and I only lament I had not made earlier overtures towards an acquaintance; but I flatter myself you will henceforth consider me as your friend.” “Oh Madam!” cried Charlotte, “I have forfeited the good opinion of all my friends; I have forsaken them, and undone myself.” “Come, come, my dear,” said Mrs.
Charlotte Temple Susanna Rowson 2006
And besides, I sent you hints, too." "Your overtures, as you call them, wouldn't have been unwelcome.
Stories From the Old Attic Robert Harris 1995
Something mystic and Tibetan and forbidden had replaced the human bustle and democratic simplicity of pre-migration days, and the same experience was encountered by those who made social overtures to the returned wanderers.
Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki 2011
When Paul became satisfied that Dawkins was not inclined to accept his overtures, he ceased to court his acquaintance, and confined himself to his own desk.
Paul Prescott's Charge Horatio Alger 2006

Quotes with OVERTURES (3)

Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going to be tractable in response to purely peaceable overtures. Indeed, it certainly appears that some individuals, including notably Saddam Hussein, will cheerfully help themselves to a yard for every inch offered by well-meaning peacemakers. When we are dealing with customers as tough as that, there is no alternative to being tough ourselves.
Jan Narveson A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our…
Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad Scrolls
How many rapes occurred inside the walls of the main camp of Ravensbrück is hard to put a figure to: so many of the victims — already, as Ilse Heinrich said, half dead — did not survive long enough after the war to talk about it. While many older Soviet women were reluctant to talk of the rape, younger survivors feel less restraint today. Nadia Vasilyeva was one of the Red Army nurses who were cornered by the Germans on the cliffs of the Crimea. Three years later in Neustreli…
Sarah Helm Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
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