It would be hard to imagine a more blatant conflict — yet no one at Goldman bothered to tell El Paso.
It's easy to be simultaneously appalled at the blatant exploitation yet secretly fascinated by the sheer chutzpah of it.
The fishery's collapse, which began last summer and has stretched into this year, is the most blatant sign yet of the bay's vulnerability in the face of decades of dwindling flow from two rivers originating in Georgia.
General Petraeus has privately expressed outrage at what American officials say is the Pakistani main spy agency's most blatant support yet for fighters based in Pakistan who are carrying out attacks against American troops in Afghanistan.
ISTANBUL — In his most blatant criticism yet of Syria's political repression, the prime minister of Turkey said for the first time on Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria should resign, raising the pressure on Mr. Assad from a country that Syria had once counted as its friendliest neighbor and economic partner.
It was the most blatant instance yet of the Trump family's profiting from its political power in this case, by shifting from its long-standing focus on luxury markets in order to make money from the very demographic that put Trump in the White House.
Ross said about the series: "It's seemingly exploitative, it's incredibly sexist, and the female members of my household - you'd expect them to be indignant, but, no, they were laughing their butts off because it was so blatant, and yet Honey was actually never objectified in the whole series".
Finally, the Portland Weekly accepted it; it no longer sounded like blatant prostitution, and yet, to the right reader, it could have meant nothing else.
You do not hear such blatant dismissals nowadays, yet the belief persists that the joking and the egging each other on not only is but ought to be unpunishable.
