Sentences with phrase «overtures of»

Anxious - ambivalent children are vigilant about the whereabouts and responsiveness of their parents and display heightened overtures of need to provoke parental responsiveness.

«It was evidently a case of love at first sight, for she swam about the new - comer caressingly... with overtures of affection» (Darwin, 1871) 3 [«She» is a mallard duck.]

He spoke of rejecting a recent offer by one museum to give him a major one - man show («They weren't willing to demonstrate a real commitment»), and of refusing the repeated overtures of a major publishing house that professed interest in doing a book on his work («They demanded a picture before they would proceed»).

Instead the visual vocabulary within Judd's work adheres to overtures of functionality and objectivity owing to the artist's personal interest in furniture design.

While the title of the work alludes to the opening meditations on memory in Proust's masterpiece, which was itself most likely in part modeled on the famous overtures of German composer Richard Wagner's operas, the piece seems to at least partly suggest the way in which technology disrupts both our experience of space and of the past.

He forces Fermina to end her fling with Florentino before pressuring her into first entertaining the overtures of dashing Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt), a much - preferred suitor from the upper - class.

To secure the support of the former, he must promise Representative Francis Blair (Hal Holbrook) that he will entertain the peace overtures of a Confederate delegation, thereby exposing the amendment vote to significant political risk.

Their daughter (Lily Collins)-- a precocious writer who's penned an autobiographical novel — has never forgiven Mom, though, and prefers one - night stands to the romantic overtures of a college classmate (Logan Lerman) with a dying mother.

Rebecca, whose overtures of concern are rejected by Lucy, finds herself lost and confused.

While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element - and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).

Even Charles Darwin witnessed it, between a pair of ducks: «it was evidently a case of love at first sight, for she swam about the newcomer caressingly... with overtures of affection.»

This will set clear - cut expectations for prospective dates before they even approach you with overtures of friendship and you will not end up wasting time with those who are unsuitable for you.

I was glad to see several candidates (Republican Lon Hofstein and Democrat Ken Zebrowski) recently rebuke the overtures of the Independence line and begin to reject the status quo.

Food blogger who won fame with her cheap recipes speaks about why she resisted the overtures of Hollywood

In so doing, the CSDP can do exactly as Cameron has suggested: «help them to make them safer but to make us safer too» by taking a bolder role in a region in which it is already engaged and to which it has already established welcome overtures of development and security support.

Persons who attribute the acts of God to the devil can not hope to be saved because they are incapable of distinguishing between good and evil and thwart the overtures of the Holy Spirit toward them at every turn.

9 As we might put it, he will carry out a program of disarmament and, instead of declaring war on the Gentiles, or «putting them to flight with his threats,» he will make overtures of peace to them.

According to the Reformed doctrine, total depravity makes man morally incapable of making a virtuous choice [of faith]... If total depravity does anything, it renders a man totally unable because he is indisposed to respond to the overtures of grace.

DETROIT, Michigan — Alfa Romeo's operatic return to U.S. shores — namely, with the carbon - tubbed 4C — was an overture of sexy Italian design and focused engineering.

This involved doing a bunch of stuff to learn a new song from Rauru (called the «Overture of Sages»), which would let Link get warped to the temple.

For the exhibition at i8 Irwin has chosen several works that expand on his use of fluorescent light, a material that Irwin first started working with in the 1970s and returned to prominence in his overture of works in the past 10 years.

But he employs light like a poet, particularly in the book's opening series of spreads, an overture of full - bleed details with metaphoric resonance, which announce Wyeth's visual themes: reflection, illumination, luminosity, shadows and patterns.

Again quoting Enquire within upon everything: «When a gentleman presents a fan, flower, or trinket, to a lady with the left hand, this, on his part, is an overture of regard; should she receive it with the left hand it is considered an acceptance of his esteem; but if with the right hand, it is a refusal of the offer.»

Not exact matches

Less than two weeks after his much - publicized return to Twitter, rapper Kanye West made a series of overtures to Trump on the president's favorite social media platform.

There will also be a conference call for analysts and investors where FCA's overtures could very well be a topic of conversation.

Over three hours long with both an overture and an intermission, «Lawrence of Arabia» is the type of movie that barely gets made anymore (with rare exceptions like «The Hateful Eight»).

Many of those workers now field competing overtures from countries like China, Mexico, France, and India, in some cases finding themselves pushed toward the very countries Trump has accused of stealing American jobs.

Years ago, Google made overtures in Quebec, but the provincial government and Hydro - Québec were unwilling to provide the kind of electricity discounts afforded other industries.

And one specific NAFTA proposal that so far hasn't sit well with Mexico and Canada - requiring automobiles to have 50 percent of parts come from the US - is a direct overture to US factory workers.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrived in Beijing on Tuesday after months of overtures for better relations with the Chinese government.

The total holdings of the Yahoo shareholders who had made overtures to Armstrong could not be determined.

Arran Stephens, co-founder and president of organic food company Nature's Path, says he receives some 50 overtures a year from interested buyers.

That helps explain the flurry of activity in the sector, such as Yahoo's recent $ 1.6 billion purchase of online ad provider Overture Services Inc..

He would not say whether such overtures had occurred or whether the company had retained Bank of America in any capacity.

Wordtracker was one of the original keyword research tools available online (alongside Overture), before Google created their Keyword Planner tool.

The Trump campaign had rejected early overtures to hire Cambridge Analytica, and Trump himself said in May 2016 that he «always felt» that the use of voter data was «overrated.»

For over 20 years, Chris has raised capital, held board positions and managed several of the portfolio companies through successful IPO's or acquisitions, including DexCom (DXCM), DivX Networks (DivX), Khimetrics (Acquired by SAP) and Overture (Acquired by Yahoo).

ICI General Counsel David Blass told California State Treasurer John Chiang in a Thursday letter that the feasibility study, conducted by Overture Financial LLC, fails to fully consider the range of likely events that could raise the costs and undermine the feasibility of the program.

The Overture analysis assumes workers will contribute 5 % of their pay to Secure Choice IRAs.

A version of this article appears in print on June 11, 2013, on Page A13 of the New York edition with the headline: Cryptic Overtures and a Clandestine Meeting Gave Birth to a Blockbuster Story.

I began working with SEO in early 2002 when a few friends of mine were building real estate websites and were spending tons of money (it seemed at the time at least) on Overture.

That's why SoftBank has recently begun to make overtures to other shareholders to purchase some of their positions, said sources, «making the rounds» and expanding its list of targets to find other potential sellers.

It also follows quickly on Tribune Publishing's rejection of overtures from a would - be buyer for the Times, an acquisition that would have taken the Times private.

Some political observers say Republican overtures to Israel and to Jewish leaders are aimed more at American evangelical voters, a key part of the GOP base, than they are at Jews.

I didn't speculate on this in the review, but it did seem that by placing his comments about the sex abuse crisis in that section, he might have been trying to suggest that he had worries, like those worries shared by the late Avery Cardinal Dulles and others, about a one - size - fits - all policy that applies to all those accused of any sort of sexual overtures to people under the age of eighteen.

Abdul Dean, regional candidate for Glasgow, rejected overtures to join major secular parties in Scotland to back the Christian Democrats, even though the Alliance honours the rule of Christ at the heart of its» constitution.

Eventually, AELC overtures toward both the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church in America led to the merger of the three bodies in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

But when overtures were made to the rulers of the city for permission to stone them, Paul and Barnabas fled to Lystra and Derbe.

Francis's ecumenism has previously included the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, as well as multiple overtures to Protestants.

He became part of a conspiracy against Hitler at the highest levels of the German government, using his role as a civilian agent in military intelligence as a cover for ecumenical contacts that allowed the conspirators to make tentative overtures toward a peace settlement with the British government.