Sentence examples for overt intention from inspiring English sources

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The Holocaust was genocide – an overt intention that the Jewish people should not exist.

It's worth looking at a pair of movies screened at Maryland — one coming here next month, one a world première that isn't — that are superb movies in themselves and that also help to define (without any overt intention or manifesto) contrasting paths to filmmaking that, properly imagined (as they are by these filmmakers), aren't opposed.

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Touchstone and Feste are creatures who, whatever their overt intentions, inspire expansive, self-enlarging gestures in their pupils.

According to this model, an intention produces overt action by way of cooperation with a closely coupled collection of modelling mechanisms that take the intention's relatively abstract specification of a goal-state and transform it into various fine-grained, functionally specific, commands and predictions.

First, neural measures of task preparation are sensitive to the effects of between-task competition, indicating that this competition directly affects the formation of intentions, not only the expression of these intentions in overt behavior.

Gibson shows the same horrors with an irrepressible sense of excitement; with the best of intentions, an overt revulsion at war, and the honoring of Doss's actions, Gibson has made a movie that's nearly pathological in its love of violence — but he nonetheless counterbalances its amoral pleasures with an understanding of the psychological devastation that war wreaks.

Strawson inquired whether illocutionary force could be made overt by means of communicative intentions.

Mr. del Toro's allegorical intentions also become increasingly overt, as the boys must band together against their oppressor.

Philadelphia is more overt than some teams in pronouncing its intention to blitz, with linebackers and defensive backs often crowding the line of scrimmage -- and perhaps intimidating quarterbacks.

"However, in the face of overt and challenging behavior which amounts to intention to break the law, our stance will be one of enforcement".

Republican leaders defended the unusually swift passage of the measure, noting what they described as "overt threats" by union members and others about intentions to raise the right to work issue during the Super Bowl.

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