For decades, governments have promoted arms sales, but there was always some degree of embarrassment … The coalition are much more blatant – quite shameless".
"The absolute conflicts and appearance of conflicts are much more blatant in these proposed awards than in the welfare-to-work set".
But if those cases suggest teachers told students what to write, several superintendents said the examples in their districts were much less blatant, and innocently explained.
"Unlike cocaine or heroin traffickers, who typically use coded language, and are cagey," Ms. Brennan said, the intercepted phone conversations in this case "were much more blatant or upfront than others we listen to".
— Jeff Gordinier Ad Age: The world of advertising weighs in on Ms. Deen's endorsement of the diabetes drug Victoza: "Situations like this though, that smack too much of blatant opportunism, run the risk of eroding the confidence of spokespeople for any brand".
But Schumacher's offence was much more blatant than Rosberg's, who has a good reputation and was always likely to receive the benefit of the doubt when the stewards went into a huddle.
"How can it be in the US government's interest to pursue Mr Kim in the manner it has and allow this much more blatant event to go unaddressed?" asked Abbe Lowell, Mr Kim's lawyer, in a letter to the Justice Department.A bigger problem still is overclassification.
(And don't even get me started on the many inequities of America's top-tier universities, starting with their "legacy admissions". Attempts to preserve systemic social hierarchies do not get much more blatant than that).
How much more blatant can he make this one, feckless millennials?
But other times, the fusion of technology and fashion yield much more blatant results, as seen in Moritz Waldemeyer's spinning LED headpieces, or wearable cat tails that reflect the mood of the wearer.
