The phrase "in obvious sight" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to something that is easily visible and not hidden. For example: "The keys were left in obvious sight, so I knew exactly where to find them."
That is why the sight of Cano hobbling in obvious pain had to be disconcerting to the Yankees.
However the fact that it was in such an obvious location, in full sight of the media, led to various interpretations of Hamilton's motives.
That would be only the latest twist in a legal dispute now in a third Supreme Court round with no obvious end in sight.
They expose something obvious, previously hidden in plain sight.
This is no empty symbol and statistic, considering the length of the campaign – longer now than the entire second world war – and that there seems no obvious end in sight in Helmand, or anywhere else across southern Afghanistan for that matter.
That is the lesson from pre-season testing, which finished in Bahrain on Sunday with no obvious end in sight for the problems suffered all winter by world champions Red Bull and some surprise names looking like real front-line contenders.
In 1967, still unbeaten and with no obvious challenger in sight, Ali was stripped of his titles and for three-and-a-half years had to scrape a living making campus speeches and appearing on Broadway.
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators that has been meeting behind the scenes during the past several months is emerging as the focal point in a battle over spending with no obvious end in sight.
Sitting in a museum with no walls, with no obvious artworks in sight, I started to see the art everywhere.
This standard view of development as a teleonomic (seemingly goal-directed; Mayr [1974]) process stands in stark contrast to the accepted view of evolution as non-programmatic, with no obvious end in sight.
