Regular South China Morning Post columnist Alex Lo summarised the fear in journalists saying: "If a respected editor could be attacked in such a blatant and ruthless manner, no one in the news-gathering business is safe".
On top of that, financial engineering of the morally dubious kind is necessarily a far more abstract, less exciting form of misconduct than making a fool of the referee and opposing players by feigning contact in the box, especially if it's done in a manner so blatant that one of the victims feared his elevated stress levels would cause blisters.
"They have engaged in a complex, complicated and, no doubt, costly, series of steps designed to put the assets of the IPG International Property Groupp) beyond the reach of Anglo, in a blatant, dishonest and deceitful manner.
Of the many heists and grabs that litter the movie, none is as blatant as the deft, irrepressible manner in which Ferguson, displaying a light smile and a brisk way with a knife, steals the show.
The Roots give this album shape, playing in a manner far less mechanical than blatant soul revivalists like the Daptone Records crew.
"How can it be in the US government's interest to pursue Mr Kim in the manner it has and allow this much more blatant event to go unaddressed?" asked Abbe Lowell, Mr Kim's lawyer, in a letter to the Justice Department.A bigger problem still is overclassification.
But the manner in which their heads dropped, an act of blatant surrender, when Álvaro Morata opened the scoring late in the first half said much more.
One hears it applied, not always helpfully, to all manner of phenomena — conscious and unconscious, individual and institutional, mild and severe, blatant and (more often) subtle.
"An American in Paris" concerns ne'er-do-well artists of questionable talent and manners, and "On the Town" has a gay text far too blatant for the name of sub.
