There is a tradition but it wasn't as overt as it has become.
The religious element, in the movie isn't as overt as on "Touched by an Angel," but the tone is similar.
No great director has built a career with as overt and obsessive a relation to a cinematic forebear as Brian De Palma has in regard to Alfred Hitchcock.
Giambi is not as overt as Reggie Jackson was in 1976, when he could not contain himself in his free-agency purgatory in Baltimore.
Gunton said the BBC was "very keen to be as overt as possible about the whole range of techniques" used in Hidden Kingdoms.
And 2 Chainz is impressive on "Rich" — again, that's the abbreviated, printable version of the title — hitting hard without being as overt as he typically is.
He argued to the contrary that modern liberal societies are oppressive, though the oppressive practices they employ are not as overt as in earlier times.
We notice that the improvement of our method on this dataset is not as overt as on the BRUCE dataset.
Sometimes officials do end up in conflict with their political masters but that conflict is rarely as overt as Yes, Prime Minister would have it.
It isn't as overt as feeling like I don't deserve it if is offered.
They are exactly as overt as you would expect them to be, only more so.
