Sentence examples for overtly by from inspiring English sources

In this version, vengeance is undercut by gentleness, expressed most overtly by the fluttering delicacy of the many gesturing hands.

Works in the show are puzzlingly various but are glued together overtly by romantic nostalgia and covertly by a coyly calculated banality.

Mr. Luckus was never involved in politics, Ms. Aldag said, but his work was sometimes censored — overtly by Communist officials or, more covertly, by well-connected colleagues who ignored it.

Numerous dissidents had made it to America before, but since the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 none had been helped so overtly by the Americans.It would have been easy for Chinese police to seize Mr Chen: he had left the embassy for treatment in a Beijing hospital.

In 2006, Myanmar, then run overtly by a military junta, renounced its turn for the rotating presidency of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, in the face of foreign pressure over human rights abuses and the detention of political prisoners.

Moreover, if we're informed, either subtly or overtly, by stressed out adults, that we're "no good," or if we're ignored or compared unfavorably to others, we'll believe it.

Worse, ISIS is overtly supported by some Muslim countries; and covertly by the West in its bid to oust Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad.

Was it an act of political repression against leftist student activists (who are overtly despised by the state's political class and by the army), and thus also a threat directed against all leftists and activists?

They will be greeted by a woman aglow in, though not overtly dazzled by, her own success, one who serves as the commentator for her shows — confessing, rather disarmingly, her relative ignorance.

Although the microtubule cytoskeleton network was altered by lithium treatment, neither centrioles nor cilia were overtly affected by it at any stage (Fig. 5C, mature spermatocytes).

Plutarch's discussion of Parmenides in Against Colotes is particularly significant in that it is a substantial discussion of the relation between his account of Being and his cosmology by an ancient author later than Aristotle that is not overtly influenced by Aristotle's own discussions.