Experts say overt political activism can cut both ways, advancing some careers while retarding others, depending on the circumstances.
But Miller's gift for characterization and ability to summon up a world that convinces absolutely, even though it never was, cut against the overt symbolism enough to excuse a flaw or two — especially as the irrational and occult whittle away at "the power of reason".
It is also one reason why "overt money financing" of tax cuts is not entirely crazy.Nonetheless, says Lord Turner, the idea remains "taboo".
Among the ranks of journalists who covered these events, including overt partisans like John Reed, he again cut a minor figure, one who found revolutionary ferment less exhilarating than taxing.
For one thing, it may have been inevitable that the film would cut the book's overt Christianity, but without it, the discussion of good and evil feels generic and treacly.
However, our study focused on patients suspected of having DIC (some with a recent inflammatory insult, others with overlaying stimuli in chronic conditions, and others in recovery); thus, the result may not show a clear-cut difference between the overt and the non-overt groups.
Clear-cut origin from benign papilloma and overt squamous differentiation were lacking.
Patients were assigned to different fibrosis stages according to TE results, using previously published cut-off values; in particular, patients with TE results ≥ 13.0 kPa or overt clinical signs were diagnosed to suffer from liver cirrhosis, since TE cut-offs in this range were demonstrated to be optimal for the diagnosis of cirrhosis [ 26].
All of us seem to believe, with good reason, that we do a good job of resisting overt or flagrant pressures toward bias, but such clear-cut cases may be far more rare than we often assume.
Proportion of participants with normal ACR (using sex-specific cut-off points) was 47.8% while microalbuminuria and overt albuminuria were present in 40.8% and 19.2%, respectively.
Brady's subtler commercial image — right now, he's in print ads — evokes a clean-cut (if unshaven) sexiness, but one that is far less overt than Joe Namath's.
