Sentence examples for overt refusal from inspiring English sources

India is known its head wobble or headshake, a gesture that ambiguously says neither yes nor no, but is often a polite way of avoiding overt refusal.

Sampson Starkweather's 2010 chapbook, "Self Help Poems," consists of small prose blocks that are extremely Handeyesque, both in their first-person anecdotal structure and their overt refusal to say something cheaply "deep," while going instead for something weirder and arguably superior: It's true, I live in the woods alone.

We did not receive any overt refusals to participate.

The reasons for a household to have unvaccinated children (to be an "X" household) could include overt refusals by caregivers, sick children, children not present during vaccination, or locked houses.

Ten patients (9.6%) did not undergo surgery because of suspected or overt systemic disease (seven patients), refusal (two patients), or residual unresectable disease (one patient).

Its lack of overt moral judgment, its authorial silence, its refusal to take sides on the propriety of Byronic values, would make it unrecognizable to a 19th-century reader.

My refusal.

Nothing overt.

Overt hostility?

A refusal.

Overt racism?