Sentence examples for overtly preferred from inspiring English sources

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He also overtly preferred Harry Carey's son to Patrick and ardently committed himself to the Navy while sloughing off his own family's needs.

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Although the screenplay shies away from overtly preferring one vision to another, the perspective of a pinball player who appears near the end of the film might come closest to the director's, since he is played by Mr. Linklater: "There's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity".

But when it comes to his own work, Mr. Tice rejects the overtly majestic, preferring the far more modest tenor and scale of small-town America.

There used to be a sense of vulgarity about seeking success or money overtly — the English preferred to lose gracefully than to win vulgarly.

Jung preferred overtly religious language – instead of the universe talking of the "soul of the world" or anima mundi – and this was more than a question of taste.

Then, too, Mr. Huang's music probably did not sit well with the authorities, who, in a throwback to actions against progressive composers like Shostakovich in Soviet Russia, would surely have preferred a simpler, more overtly melodic style.

At the moment we prefer the overtly lyric poetry to the overtly political; that could change.

In fact, P. esculentus females prefer (either overtly or cryptically) P. lessonae males than males of their own species [ 41- 45].

From a marketing standpoint, the movie represents the opposite challenge from "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," where the studio worried that the overtly Christian message of C. S. Lewis's books would drive away moviegoers who preferred to see wicked witches and talking lions.

The writers had preferred a more boisterous, sitcom-y Hannon composition that later became A Woman of the World, but producer Perkins insisted on a less mocking, more overtly Irish tune.

Cash preferred.

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