All 5 Uses of
overture
in
The Fountainhead
- The Dean smiled and leaned forward confidentially, enjoying the overture to a good deed.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Cameron looked at the orange hair, at the hand hanging by his side, its palm to the drawing, the fingers bent slightly, forgotten not in a gesture but in the overture to a gesture of asking or seizing something.†
Chpt 1.3
- It was in the air of the room, like an overture to the words Weidler uttered, and Roark was not certain of the moment when he heard them, because he thought he had heard them the instant he entered.†
Chpt 1.15
- What you want, when you unveil it, is one grand fanfare, like an opera overture, like a blast on Gabriel's horn.†
Chpt 2.10
- The cold washed the colors of the earth, revealing that they were not colors but only the elements from which color was to come, the dead brown not a full brown but a future green, the tired purple an overture to flame, the gray a prelude to gold.†
Chpt 4.3
Definition:
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(overture as in: she made an overture) a tentative suggestion designed to draw out the reactions of others with the hope of developing something more substantial