"Ronald Fraser makes no overt claim to having created a novel, but it reads like one," the playwright Arthur Miller wrote in The New York Times Book Review.
Gaiam doesn't make any overt claim that non-organic cotton is going to give you a skin rash.
Unlike many health-food restaurants, Crustacean, a family business, started out as a Vietnamese restaurant, without overt health claims.
His defenders say he is simply preaching abstinence outside marriage and monogamy within it, so if people are following his advice they can't contract HIV – but in order to reinforce the first part of his message, he spreads overt lies claiming condoms don't work.
In an open letter to Dame Suzi Leather, the chairman of the commission, Sheila Lawlor, the director of think-tank Politeia and a former Conservative candidate for local office, complains of its "overt politicisation", claiming that the changes in the law did not require schools to be subject to such scrutiny.
Just as Mr. Gore issued no concession, Mr. Bush made no overt move to claim the legally insignificant but politically potent title of president-elect.
But any overt move to claim users or their affinity clouds will trigger extremely negative effects.
Since then, claims of overt racism have diminished, although cases still crop up, like another suit filed two years ago by 15 officers at East Jersey State Prison -- including Mr. Leak -- again alleging the use of racial slurs, graffiti and retaliation.
Many feminists have been wary both of the biases contained in Freud's oratory and of the overt content of his claims.
Gonzalès's work faced criticism because of what audiences and critics claimed were overt similarities to the style of Manet, which, at that time, was considered somewhat crude.
