If a loved one communicated with you via a poem or a song, even before the message was apparent, you had a reason to assume something about the nature of the content and its emotional value.
Again, the message was apparent: Being smart and being pretty are mutually exclusive, but being pretty is more important if you're a girl.
But if the message is too apparent, it can actually be hard to take it in, because you can feel it being pushed at you.
"The mystery, if there is one, is how these institutions evolve in the first place," Duncan J. Watts, a sociologist at Columbia, wrote in an e-mail message, "i.e., before it is apparent to anyone that they can resolve the problem of cooperation".
That is apparent from the messages that have flowed from rugby players in Sydney, London, and elsewhere.
Here in the suburbs of Philadelphia, which, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group, is one of the top five media markets for ad spending against the health care law, it is apparent how such messaging is playing out.
The camaraderie is apparent.
"Your leadership is apparent.
