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  • He needed overt drama in his life.†   (source)
  • Once that happens, our reading of the text changes from the reading governed by what's overtly on the page.†   (source)
  • "In your case, Jim old chap, it's overt.†   (source)
  • The painting quite overtly portrays our forefathers receiving great wisdom from the gods.†   (source)
  • As a reformist movement that never overtly questioned the traditional values of a caste-ridden, extremely traditional community.†   (source)
  • In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course.†   (source)
  • It was never said overtly, but …. we all had a sense something big was coming, and we've been drilled on what to do."†   (source)
  • They stopped just short of something overt that would require notice.†   (source)
  • They did not mean for it to say too much overtly, and at the same time they wished for it to say everything.†   (source)
  • Now you've said the first overt incident all of you witnessed involved a man who'd had several beers.†   (source)
  • There was no overt or subtle condemnation.†   (source)
  • Come on overt We huddled around his fire.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't be faced with physical attack, or with overt shows of hatred.†   (source)
  • Her growl was not overtly threatening, but it captured everyone's attention and proclaimed her impatience with the proceedings.†   (source)
  • To all of them, adult women were threatening creatures, and in two cases there was overt sexual perversion.†   (source)
  • Moody was defying the law openly by practicing medicine without a license. if they could put a man in prison for six years because of his thoughts, how severely would they punish an overt act?†   (source)
  • She was very, very dark, she was beautiful; and he was proud to be with her, artlessly proud, in the shining, overt, male way; but the eyes they passed accused him, enviously, of a sniggering, back-alley conquest.†   (source)
  • The PAC often refused to participate in meetings that had no overt party affiliation.†   (source)
  • And while Akbar's religion had not become an overt issue during the campaign, it was certainly on the minds of at least some of the voters.†   (source)
  • "The Effects of Overt Head Movements on Persuasion," Basic and Applied Social Psychology (198°). vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 219-230.†   (source)
  • The present itself was not overtly threatening.†   (source)
  • If so, they've achieved complete strategic surprise and are now throwing it away by operating so overtly that we cannot fail to notice or react forcefully.†   (source)
  • And they do it without overt persuasion, they do it with smiles and nods, a collective inflection of the voice.†   (source)
  • He jumped to his feet and held his Transvice at the ready, without overtly showing it as a threat.†   (source)
  • Gabby, the woman who'd falsely accused him, consistently avoided him, overtly antagonized him, and then made a point of repeatedly mentioning that she was in love with someone else.†   (source)
  • In such an overtly, stereotypically male narrative, I thought that straightforward chronology would be more suitable than the kind of play with sequence and time I had employed in my previous novels.†   (source)
  • I bore this with an overt detachment unknown to me in mortal life and came to understand this as a part of vampire nature: that I might sit at home at Pointe du Lac and think for hours of my brother's mortal life and see it short and rounded in unfathomable darkness, understanding now the vain and senseless wasting passion with which I'd mourned his loss and turned on other mortals like a maddened animal.†   (source)
  • He was oddly, suddenly conscious of the fact that she wasn't very dressed, so he held back from putting a hand on her shoulder or doing anything else overtly soothing.†   (source)
  • I remember the not-just-implied but overtly stated connection between Mia's "tragedy" and her "otherworldly" playing.†   (source)
  • The only downside was the risk of angering the judge by such an overt attempt at earwigging, and what would the judge do other than to tell Jake to shut up?†   (source)
  • Not even the bull fighter, Lorenzo Garza, or the great boxer, Panchito Billa, provoked the kind of overt joy in Monterrey like these children did.†   (source)
  • Most of the time (although I do not choose as I once did to deny the violence of my days by ignoring it) I am not so overtly violent.†   (source)
  • Franklin, for his part, expressed strong disapproval of any such overt "suitoring" for alliances, preferring, as he said, that America, "a virgin state, should preserve the virgin character" and "wait with decent dignity for the applications of others."†   (source)
  • He moved on her with that same centered confidence she'd seen in him all along;; only now, focused exclusively on her, in this new domain, it was both more overt and intense.†   (source)
  • People here react negatively to any overt displays of soulfulness.†   (source)
  • An overt move by any of us would at once have brought trouble on the rest.†   (source)
  • In the short term that will prevent him from an overt attack.†   (source)
  • There was nothing overtly impressive about the man; he was of average height with a plain and utterly forgettable face.†   (source)
  • A masculine voice, but not overtly masculine.†   (source)
  • I walked up behind him slowly, making no overt or hostile movement, moving easily as though I simply wanted another beer.†   (source)
  • I can't believe I actually defied Daddy in such an overt manner.†   (source)
  • There was no such revulsion now; with one overt action she had crossed over into another territory.†   (source)
  • No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.†   (source)
  • The Lady Lysa took no part in the fighting, nor has she committed any overt acts of treason.†   (source)
  • No overt signs of struggle or sexual assault.†   (source)
  • In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.†   (source)
  • She could go back to Jerusalem, back to her work at Hadassah, back to the overt world.†   (source)
  • The male appeared to be enduring this overt display of affection, rather than enjoying it.†   (source)
  • Good whites—not the type that is overtly bigoted— urged us to "work, study, lift ourselves up by our bootstraps."†   (source)
  • Obviously, I think, Les simply and with logic does not wish to have anything of an overt nature take place in a taxicab.†   (source)
  • And perhaps these might even be warranted … But there was not much overt resistance, so the project proceeded.†   (source)
  • The men called him "Shorty," and though he hated the name he accepted it with no overt complaint, exactly as he accepted, day after day, the salami sandwich in his lunchpail, neither fighting the thing nor submitting to it.†   (source)
  • overt hostility
  • overt intelligence gathering
    overt = not secret or hidden
  • Overtly political writing can be one-dimensional, simplistic, reductionist, preachy, dull.†   (source)
  • Anything overt might get in the way of his ambitions.†   (source)
  • The symbolism in Melencolia I is so complex it makes Leonardo da Vinci look overt.†   (source)
  • Either way, we promise to always be with you; although this way is a little more overt and obvious.†   (source)
  • Parcells was deeply suspicious of the overt use of intellect on a football sideline.†   (source)
  • Even so, the old man's overt passion for mystical forces reminded Katherine of her brother.†   (source)
  • In the nouvelle diplomatic overt simplicity has become both a cover and a tool.†   (source)
  • I was distracted by the overt grace of his movement.†   (source)
  • It wasn't always overt, but he couldn't deny the change in his platoon members' attitude toward him.†   (source)
  • At no time as the conversation continued did either of them show any overt signs of hostility.†   (source)
  • Despite Aro's overt politeness, I didn't believe I really had a choice.†   (source)
  • Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.†   (source)
  • Cover all the exits at that hotel, but inform every man that no overt moves are to be made.†   (source)
  • They did not know at what cost the overt Rosalind had been wrought.†   (source)
  • Delta's conduct in the field was continuously and overtly hostile to command.†   (source)
  • But from where I sit doing that could be called anything from piracy to an overt act of war.†   (source)
  • Mom will kick her figurative butt if she chooses to disregard the overt warning.†   (source)
  • This kind of overt inequity in bonding spread its message to the black community.†   (source)
  • I flip through my notes and mention a few of the overtly erotic poems—"Thorns," "But for the Waiting," "The Pillow."†   (source)
  • She looks at him without blinking, and though she gives no overt indication that she has recognized him, and though her smile is polite, there is something amused and distant about her expression, playful, sly, unintimidated.†   (source)
  • An overtly hostile act?†   (source)
  • Harrington wasn't shocked by more subtle forms of racism away from the basketball court, but it had been a long time since he'd seen the overt version on it.†   (source)
  • The book has only one overt clue that this all might have something to do with Homer, its one-word title: Ulysses (1922).†   (source)
  • So that's one way classical myth can work: overt subject matter for poems and paintings and operas and novels.†   (source)
  • "And if you have any doubts," Peter added, "Corinthians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men'—where the milk is a watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds."†   (source)
  • Michael had put Sean in a position to pressure him if he wanted, and Sean hadn't, at least not overtly.†   (source)
  • His mother had her problems but she was never overtly cruel: she never hit them, for instance, and she often said she loved them.†   (source)
  • Now neither Camus's nor Sophocles' use is particularly subtle or hard to get, but in their overt way they teach us how other writers may use illness when it is less central.†   (source)
  • D. H. Lawrence's work is profoundly political even when it doesn't look like it, even when he is less overt than in Women in Love, where he has a character say of a robin that it looks like a "little Lloyd-George of the air."†   (source)
  • Irony, in various guises, drives a great deal of fiction and poetry, even when the work isn't overtly ironic or when the irony is subtle.†   (source)
  • When she gets inside the cave, a crush of people threatens her; the jostling and brushing seem overtly hostile in the dark enclosure.†   (source)
  • It's not overtly religious.†   (source)
  • Though there was nothing overtly menacing in his tone, simply hearing him say her name left Dawson feeling sick to his stomach.†   (source)
  • There was nothing overtly hostile in his demeanor, and yet everything about him implied a clear threat.†   (source)
  • If overt TK ability occurs as a part of puberty, and if this hypothetical TK test is performed on children entering the first grade, we shall certainly be forewarned.†   (source)
  • None moved against them overtly, but they were closing in on the tracks, a silent, hideous party of rubberneckers.†   (source)
  • It had required a week for me to get their measure, but they must have taken mine at our first meeting; and, while there was nothing overtly disdainful in their evident assessment of me, they managed to ignore my presence, and indeed my very existence, with a thoroughness which was somehow disconcerting.†   (source)
  • …men in hooded sweatshirts, morose and idly violent, hunched in front of barred windows or sitting on a broken sofa in the snow, and Klara thought these pictures were utterly modern in one sense only, that the subjects seemed photographed, overtly posing or caught unaware, sometimes self-consciously aloof, a housing project massed behind them or here's a man with lidded eyes and a watch cap and one of those bloated polyester jackets and a gun with banana clip—you see how Acey belies…†   (source)
  • Eventually, the Dikori family decided to leave and to join the tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees streaming into Egypt in search of, if not economic opportunity, at least a respite from the overt and relentless persecution of Africans and Christians in the Sudan.†   (source)
  • No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.†   (source)
  • 92-93): It is now generally agreed that the TK phenomenon is a genetic-recessive occurrence-but the opposite of a disease like hemophilia, which becomes overt only in males.†   (source)
  • THEY HAD PLUCKED HER FROM the overt world without a ripple and smuggled her to their pastoral secret citadel.†   (source)
  • Our repertoire increased, and we were soon singing overt political songs, such as "Amajoni," a song about guerrilla soldiers, the title of which was a corruption of the English slang word for soldier, Johnny; and "Tshotsholoza," a song that compares the struggle to the motion of an oncoming train.†   (source)
  • But these boys were now seasoned veterans of judging their peers, and they gave no overt signals of how they had voted.†   (source)
  • There were a lot of innuendos, overt suggestions, and laughter before the transmission ended with a promise to get together when he got into town.†   (source)
  • Baugh sees both sides of this, having felt the pull both ways: "At a young age, then, I received mixed messages about language; some were overt, advocating that I 'speak properly' and avoid 'bad language,' whereas others were more subtle, reflected by the hippest Sisters and Brothers who emphatically rejected 'white speech.†   (source)
  • Despite smarting at the wound of his careless words, I decide I like how I feel, joined to him in such an overt way.†   (source)
  • Swaney's critics—local progressives and members of the resettlement community for the most part—tended to view him more as a bumbling good ol' boy than as overtly malicious.†   (source)
  • But among the first section, there had been no threats, veiled or overt, no weird or unsavory offers or suggestions.†   (source)
  • You must understand, I strenuously objected to any overt participation; that is not the nature of the fiche.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure how to process learning about Daddy's possible affair, not that there's much overt proof of it.†   (source)
  • Mick parks with an overt flourish.†   (source)
  • Watching them sport about, it has often seemed to me that as well adapted as they are to their environment, there was never a need for dolphins to evolve complex social institutions, so that whatever it was they did possess along those lines was much closer to the earlier situations considered by Huizinga, a life condition filled with an overt indulgence in their version of festal performances and contests.†   (source)
  • The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.†   (source)
  • Non— hibakusha employers developed a prejudice against the survivors as word got around that they were prone to all sorts of ailments, and that even those, like Nakamura-san, who were not cruelly maimed and had not developed any serious overt symptoms were unreliable workers, since most of them seemed to suffer, as she did, from the mysterious but real malaise that came to be known as one kind of asting A-bomb sickness: a nagging weakness and weariness, dizziness now and then,…†   (source)
  • This morning Wargrave had sat huddled in his chair on the terrace refraining from any overt activity.†   (source)
  • The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking.†   (source)
  • I suppose I may say they idolised him, but I never caught them giving him an overt glance.†   (source)
  • But in natural justice is nothing but the prisoner's overt act to be considered?†   (source)
  • The clear proof of one overt deed was the cold breath needed to convert the lowering clouds of suspicion into a rain of wrath.†   (source)
  • White Fang pricked his ears and investigated it suspiciously, managing to look at the same time both at the meat and the god, alert for any overt act, his body tense and ready to spring away at the first sign of hostility.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp was not so dull that he had not noticed that much quite accurately, but he also sensed an inhibiting, restraining effect on his own civilian sentiments—indeed it may have been this proximity, the example he took from it and its supervisory aspect, that kept him from overt actions and blind adventures.†   (source)
  • IV Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-licence; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board about six inches wide and two yards long, fixed to the garden palings by pieces of wire, so as to form a ledge.†   (source)
  • He did not know where to seek it or how, but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him.†   (source)
  • Without one overt act of hostility, one upbraiding word, he contrived to impress me momently with the conviction that I was put beyond the pale of his favour.†   (source)
  • The manner of the Quartermaster had that air of supererogatory courtesy about it which almost invariably denotes artifice; for, while physiognomy and phrenology are but lame sciences at the best, and perhaps lead to as many false as right conclusions, we hold that there is no more infallible evidence of insincerity of purpose, short of overt acts, than a face that smiles when there is no occasion, and the tongue that is out of measure smooth.†   (source)
  • Her emblazoned fault was to be too pronounced in her objections, and not sufficiently overt in her likings.†   (source)
  • Wenham himself was a staunch old True Blue Tory, and his father a small coal-merchant in the north of England), this aide-de-camp of the Marquis never showed any sort of hostility to the new favourite, but pursued her with stealthy kindnesses and a sly and deferential politeness which somehow made Becky more uneasy than other people's overt hostilities.†   (source)
  • No person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.†   (source)
  • Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.†   (source)
  • No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.†   (source)
  • …he mentioned with horror), might, at another time, raise an inundation by the same means, to drown the whole palace; and the same strength which enabled you to bring over the enemy's fleet, might serve, upon the first discontent, to carry it back; that he had good reasons to think you were a Big-endian in your heart; and, as treason begins in the heart, before it appears in overt-acts, so he accused you as a traitor on that account, and therefore insisted you should be put to death.†   (source)
  • To vouch this is no proof; Without more wider and more overt test Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods Of modern seeming do prefer against him.†   (source)
  • No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.†   (source)
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