To make some obvious points about Western interests in oil, this picture imitates a few scenes in David O. Russell's remarkable 1999 war picture "Three Kings," where the context was not sacrificed to politics.
Reppetto strains to make some obvious points: that organized crime has always been a multiethnic endeavor in the United States; that the great majority of Italian-Americans are law-abiding; that the most hard-nosed gangbusters have included the likes of Frank Dimaio, a heroic undercover agent, and Giuseppe Petrosino, a New York police officer who was murdered for his doggedness.
Apart from all the wars, that is.He makes some obvious points along the way, such as: "Territory and sexuality are the main determinants of identity".
Golding is making some rather obvious points about the thin veneer of civilisation and the supposed myth of childhood innocence, but will only succeed in frightening any teenagers who are force-fed his depressing vision for GCSE English.
"I have no comment about his possible candidacy other than to make two obvious points," Mr. Green said yesterday.
Some made obvious points (images in twos and threes for Mr. Dresher's "Two Entwined," with its meshing of double and triple meters); others were merely — but loudly — decorative.
Having said all this, I want to make an obvious point that for some reason really hit home to me today, which is that people's decisions to buy and sell stocks, and particularly when they decide to buy and sell, are downright peculiar.
The show was undeniably offensive to some people, but to make the obvious point, there's a big difference between art and representation on the one hand and committing an actual act of assault or violence on the other.
By Emily Nussbaum When Colbert's jokes make obvious points, they feel weightless, but bolder ones risk feeling trivializing.
When Colbert's jokes make obvious points (about nepotism, say), they feel weightless, but bolder ones (about Putin murdering journalists) feel trivializing.
And for those who are going to make the obvious point: Yes, I did say some of these things during the Clinton years, when it was conservatives bashing a Democrat, but not loudly enough, which I regret, because the weeds that were once on the edge of public life now threaten to choke off the whole thing.
