Sentence examples for an overt statement from inspiring English sources

"There was not an overt statement made to me that they objected to the ban," Mr. Mulholland said, adding, "There was never anything inferred by Coke that if this ban happens, we're losing their support".

By making such an overt statement, the General has implied our current talent essentially consists of a bunch of racist yobs – something I know first-hand is simply not the case.

She says the film is more of a metaphor for her situation than an overt statement.

Unlike projects like Dries Depoorter's TinderIn or Frances Waite's Tinder message-inspired nudes, 10 Days on Tinder isn't trying to make an overt statement about the app or dating culture, but instead serves as a reflection of the artist's own disorienting experience of online dating culture and a visual manifestation of the "overflowing stream of new relationships" generated through Tinder.

Other actresses never made any overt statements about it.

Whitney: I can definitely see your point, Matt, and can agree that it does shy away from any overt statements on the political environment that so sharply defined that era.

The campaign functioned more as a feminist manifesto — an avowal of belief in women's power and a bid to dress those customers — than an overt political statement.

It was the closest to an overt political statement in the two-hour concert, which some democracy activists feared would be used by the one-party state to perpetuate its hold on power.

Much of the work in that exhibition had an embedded provocation, but didn't necessarily make an overt political statement.

"I wasn't setting out to make a film that's an overt political statement, a message-y film," he said.

There's more of this subtext to mine, but Ford did not intend an overt political statement about America's social divide.