All 4 Uses of
blatant
in
The Da Vinci Code
- The most blatant M, of course, is emblazoned on the altar at Our Lady of Paris in London, which was designed by a former Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, Jean Cocteau.†
Chpt 57-58
- When Langdon had first seen The Little Mermaid, he had actually gasped aloud when he noticed that the painting in Ariel's underwater home was none other than seventeenth-century artist Georges de la Tour's The Penitent Magdalene—a famous homage to the banished Mary Magdalene—fitting decor considering the movie turned out to be a ninety-minute collage of blatant symbolic references to the lost sanctity of Isis, Eve, Pisces the fish goddess, and, repeatedly, Mary Magdalene.†
Chpt 61-62
- Langdon was having trouble buying Teabing's premise that the Church would blatantly murder people to obtain these documents.†
Chpt 61-62 *
- Vernet had remembered the name Lieutenant Collet—the officer he blatantly lied to earlier tonight.†
Chpt 79-80
Definition:
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(blatant) obvious -- often without any attempt to hide bad behavior