Nick Sandow's production goes for the jugular, but whenever it abandons its overt menace it taps into a satisfying undercurrent of dry comedy.
The isolation of the Iraqi population, enforced primarily by the United States and Britain, has manifestly failed in its overt objective: it has served only to allow Saddam Hussein to tighten his grip.
In its overt sixties nostalgia, it had a firmer footing in the world envisaged by Yves Saint Laurent, the first successor to Monsieur Dior, appointed by the man himself to helm the house following his death in 1957.
With its overt agenda of genetic purity, it's quite an unsavory piece of writing.
Sischy told me this story with no special emphasis — she offered it as an example of the sexism that women still regularly encounter — but I obscurely felt it to have another dimension besides its overt one.
The problem with "War Room" isn't its overt and unalloyed joy in faith; it's the lack of any nonreligious joy to challenge faith.
This plotline is compelling despite its overt sentimentality, but for sheer emotional force, it just can't match the movie's documentary moments.
In the long run, if Pakistan truly ends its overt support for the armed insurgency in Kashmir, it will be up to India to begin engaging in serious discussions about the state's political future.
Although the book was attacked by critics from across the political spectrum for its perceived immorality and misanthropy and its overt hostility to religion (Rand was an atheist), it was an instant best seller.
Despite the film's modernistic self-reflectiveness, its overt liberal moralism and its filmmakers' overt proclamation of it, no other aspect of its aesthetic alludes to it.
Thus, Scripture, in addition to its overt meaning, is understood as replete with implied teaching; it is, in fact, all-encompassing.
