All that hardly rates as overt hostility, and in Saturday's time-trial in the Beaujolais region the bulk of the stars and stripes being waved along the course belonged to French spectators.
In fact the teachers hardly ever gave overt kudos of any kind to the children -- at least not that I could recognize initially.
It's not just the overt aggression.
It hardly comes at the reader with an overt agenda.
During an election that has been dominated by sexism, both overt and subtle, it was hardly surprising to see Trump deploy misogyny against Clinton ― the woman whom, it seems, will likely be the United States' first female president.
If clubs and the authorities do nothing to challenge overt sexist chanting then it is hardly conducive to a welcoming atmosphere for one in four of those packing stadiums in the top flight.
The question has hardly lost its pertinence, and Mr. Dupeyron, without overt didacticism, turns the story of an elderly Muslim and his young Jewish protégé into a parable of tolerance and understanding.
Overt brutality was discouraged, as it was at American facilities: The KGB hardly ever uses manacles or chains, and rarely resorts to physical beatings.
The negative signals come in the form of overt and covert cultural racism -- a racism those foreign Hispanics in Hispanic enclaves hardly experience and to such high intensity.
