Sentence examples for is so overt from inspiring English sources

And yet, like "Seen Art?" and many other museum books, its message is so overt that it goes down like medicine rather than a meal.

Intrigues within the royal court may explain why Saudi foreign policy, which has traditionally been discreet and cautious and conducted largely behind bead curtains, is so overt.

When people talk about Big Brother, they generally mean a system of covert surveillance and manipulation, oppression in democratic disguise (unlike the system in Orwell's book, which is so overt that it is advertised).

His suit-and-tie look for this record might be a tired homage to Cary Grant, but musically, the recent-retro of last decade is so overt and in your face that you have no choice but concede it as a formal aspect of the record.

Not all candidates have been so overt.

This is an unfortunate approach to take with an artist like Bellows, whose passion for paint was so overt.

Today it would be unseemly if major figures comparable to Winston Churchill, General Douglas MacArthur and Sigmund Freud were so overt in their affection for tobacco.

"Being a mother, I know now there are ways you can fight for things and get your way without being so overt about it".

"It's so overt and it even has a critic character who can't appreciate the show because he can't appreciate joy". The Sound of Music does something similar.

Then again, it comes back to discretion: In 2014, when the Yankees' Michael Pineda brazenly smeared pine tar on his neck on a chilly night at Fenway Park, it was so overt that the Red Sox felt compelled to object.

Although slavery had been a divisive issue in the United States for decades, never before had sectional antagonism been so overt and threatening as it was in the Missouri crisis.