Sentence examples for as overt as a from inspiring English sources

Dave Simpson from The Guardian, in his review of the concert held at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, favoured Shakira's charisma and bold sexuality, noting that it is "upfront and yet nowhere near as overt as a Christina Aguilera or Madonna".

This can be as subtle as a "slip" of the tongue or as overt as a puppy dog lick with an enthusiastic grin.

The religious element, in the movie isn't as overt as on "Touched by an Angel," but the tone is similar.

Nothing as bourgeois as, say, fig. And nothing as overt as the stuff sprayed by a stealth formation of women in black overcoats on the first floor of Bloomingdale's.

There is a tradition but it wasn't as overt as it has become.

In a 1985 Postscript in this magazine, John Updike observed,> The least pugnacious of editorialists, [White] was remarkably keen and quick in the defense of personal liberty and purity of expression, whether the threat was as overt as McCarthyism or totalitarianism or as seemingly innocuous as … Alexander Woollcott's endorsement of a brand of whiskey.

In a 1985 Postscript in this magazine, John Updike observed, The least pugnacious of editorialists, [White] was remarkably keen and quick in the defense of personal liberty and purity of expression, whether the threat was as overt as McCarthyism or totalitarianism or as seemingly innocuous as … Alexander Woollcott's endorsement of a brand of whiskey.

Giambi is not as overt as Reggie Jackson was in 1976, when he could not contain himself in his free-agency purgatory in Baltimore.

But Morrissey was one of the few public figures to say anything as overt as "the sorrow of the Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed".

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.