Sentence examples for overtly referred from inspiring English sources

If any segments were considered "too American", meaning that they contained English writing on the screen, showed the American flag, or overtly referred to American history, they were removed.

"Beasts" doesn't overtly refer to sinking islands, or coastal erosion, or specific hurricanes, or any other actual ecological calamity.

Although he did not overtly refer to drone strikes, he said the five men would be liable to be killed by the US if they returned to the ranks of the Taliban.

It may be that some authors had actually used the Picard review to inform their study design but did not overtly refer to it.

Artwell embraces certain aspects of Rastafarian philosophy, but his art rarely refers overtly to Rasta teachings.

Mr. Jones also captured the mood of each song without referring overtly to the lyrics.

Not that Mr. Streber's musical language or the shapes of those sections refer overtly to Baroque conventions or dance forms.

As Nabokov puts it later in the book, referring overtly to chess but implicitly to writing: "The secret for which one strove was simplicity, harmonious simplicity, which can amaze one far more than the most intricate magic".

Newborns that were overtly ill were not enrolled but referred to treatment.

Sharpton's Saturday-morning rallies were used as a platform by many of the organizers of the campaign, which had an overtly anti-Semitic thrust, while Sharpton himself referred to the store's owner as a white interloper.

3) Words were considered spatial if the first definition listed in the American Heritage Dictionary (5th edition) was overtly and uniquely spatial in that it referred to movement, action, shape, configuration, or size.