Sentence examples for overtly aimed from inspiring English sources

"It's not overtly aimed at trying to sell product," Mr. Smale said.

By mid-decade rhythm and blues had come to mean black popular music that was not overtly aimed at teenagers, since the music that was becoming known as rock and roll sometimes featured lyrics that concerned first love and parent-child conflict, as well as a less subtle approach to rhythm.

Kim Jong Il's "rogue state" provided a convenient rationale for deploying the only kind of A.B.M. system that might be politically and diplomatically salable and technically even marginally feasible: a very limited one, based in Alaska and not overtly aimed at neutralizing China's deterrent.

"Activities that overtly aim to draw in leadership lessons or practical takeaways are less powerful," Scudamore notes.

It is true that the President's April diplomacy has not been aimed overtly at Iran, but that's not misdirection.

While QS design their rankings primarily for students, other rankings are aimed more overtly at university leadership.

Lucretius's poetry is didactic, that is, poetry that aims overtly to teach something.

Next month's selection may be riding with you!" -- overtly functioned like beauty advertising aimed at women everywhere: Divide and conquer, instill self-doubt.

While an outspoken crusader for civil rights, he felt that his pictures would speak louder as a record of black life in America if they abandoned the overtly humanist aims of mentors like Edward Steichen.

Whilst the overtly simplistic aims of personalised medicine are being reassessed, patient specific interventions will grow, and with it, the growth of physics in the field is assured.

Under Mr. Layton, the New Democrats shed the last of their overtly socialist positions and adopted a platform aimed more at attracting middle-class voters.