"overt focus" is an acceptable phrase to use in written English.
You can use it to imply that someone is paying too much attention to something, often to the point of being distracting or overbearing. For example, "The teacher's overt focus on the student's mistakes was making the class uncomfortable."
Instead of allowing tiny bigot Eric Cartman to take down PC Principal in the name of free speech or whatever, the season concludes on this note: the problem with an overt focus on conversational norms is that it creates a smokescreen for changing people's lives.
There has been an overt focus on developers.
This barrier to the accurate transfer of medical information steams from an overt focus on hierarchy among medical staff.
Whereas the past decade's social media strategies have focused on building up engagement and brand value, its unclear whether this overt focus on "making the purchase" will shift businesses to approach Facebook Pages more like their own traditional websites.
Whereas the past decade's social media strategies have focused on building up engagement and brand value, its unclear whether this overt focus on "making the purchase" will shift businesses to approach Facebook Pages more like their own traditional websites.
The brand's overt focus on the mainland China market in recent months -- it plans to open around 30 stores in the country within the next two to three years -- and perceived kowtowing to wealthy mainland Chinese tourists at its Hong Kong locations has become a simmering issue in the former British colony, and this most recent incident has only made the situation worse.
I can't believe that the (overt) focusing on the negative is simply party political, but it does appear to be.
Topic can be overtly marked with bol, which can also mark contrastive focus, overt additive focus ('even, also') can be marked with the clitic č, and overt restrictive focus with the clitic l ('only'only
The 2016 Lucerne festival has been more overt in its focus on women.
Either way, any overt non-work focus was seen as a liability.
The financial crisis was more overt, if less focused: Technocrats were as blind to the future as Greeks, mortgage holders and lords of Wall Street.
