Sentence examples for overt struggle from inspiring English sources

Yet what makes Yeong-hye an affecting character isn't a matter of any heightened aggression or more overt struggle.

The return of East Anglia to pagan rule does not necessarily mean that there was an overt struggle between the worship of the Anglo-Saxon gods and the worship of Christ, but could express a reaction away from Christianity amongst the East Angles, prompted by Edwin's rise to power and his subsequent dominance over their king.

There was no overt power struggle that interfered with the development, implementation or use of the IS, albeit the tool was limited by lack of technological sophistication.

In this objective it will be joined by anti-western, rejectionist Iranian clerics such as the influential Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, plus hardline Sunni conservatives in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf who, in the wake of last week's Yemen intervention, feel themselves engaged in an increasingly overt regional power struggle with Shia Iran.

Van Gogh's Skull with Burning Cigarette is an overt symbol of Lucious' struggle with death.

We also must act so that millions of Black, Native American and Latino children, soon to be the majority of our country's children in a majority nonwhite world, do not have to continue to struggle against overt and covert culturally ingrained racism.

Discrimination toward Armenians was visible, and many Armenians struggled against overt discriminatory and housing restrictions.

And I'm relieved to say that although tempting at times, I didn't seem capable of overt self-harm – taking the struggle with self to extreme.

As this quiet power struggle became more overt in the spring, Mr Morsi responded not by seeking allies in civic Egypt, but by adopting a threatening stance, appealing to his Islamist base with tougher rhetoric.This was a major miscalculation.

For the most part, however, the performances here follow the tone of the production as a whole, emphasizing each man's overt qualities rather than his struggles to cope with self-doubt.

It's a stunning performance of many facets, in which Clarkson conveys as much in a look as many actresses struggle to reveal with overt histrionics.