Sentence examples for covert about from inspiring English sources

But there is nothing covert about Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.

The commission is, he says, not just slow to act, but covert about it.

Now, Parliament, and perhaps much of the country, will be pressing to know what else might remain covert about the prime minister's relationship with the media tycoon.

A black man in England soon learns that his rite of passage comes with overtly racist conditioning (there is nothing covert about being stopped regularly by the police).

Five years ago, when The New Yorker published my piece "Covert Operations," about the ambitious and secretive political network underwritten by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, the Koch brothers complained mightily about the story's title, protesting that there was nothing at all covert about their political activities.

Not all women want to be covert about reading erotica while in public, though.

"They were meeting in a covert fashion, skulking about, going through back entrances and trying to make sure that they weren't being surveilled".

Any covert information about the badges would be gratefully received.

If its covert editorializing about any number of hot political and social topics were more explicit, "Film Socialisme" would probably generate howls of outrage from many corners.

Waldrop is one of those poets — Frank O'Hara is another — whose ostensible reverence for painting acts as a covert boast about writing, embedding "the instant" in a feedback loop of composition and response.

I had been amazed during the campaign — not by the covert racism about Barack Obama and not by Hillary Clinton's subtext when she insisted to superdelegates: "He can't win".