Sentence examples for overtly so from inspiring English sources

Worse, they were not discreetly neglectful but overtly so.

In a racially charged era, her art wasn't political, or at least not overtly so.

They're arbitrary and often futile – but, in his case, overtly so.

Sexy but not overtly so, successful but not decadent, Day is easy to relate to, kindhearted but no patsy.

This propensity made his work at least allegorically political, and — with its abiding concern with civil rights, anti-Fascism and freedom of information — often overtly so.

All criticism is political and Jeffries's overtly, so it was with a little surprise I discovered that he is actually hooked on Andrew Davies's "latest sexed-up dozier of the classics".

In "Mama" horror is intimate, domestic and overtly feminized, so much so that its monster — Javier Botet, from the "(Rec)" Franchise — opens up darkly oozing, Cronenbergian holes in the wall, a striking visual suggesting that the house itself has given birth to the demon.

When Ms. Ravitch assails the emphasis on standardized testing, particularly under the No Child Left Behind law, and when she exhorts schools to use a content-rich core curriculum and emphasize character and build ties to parents and neighborhoods, she is, without overtly saying so, extolling the essential traits of Catholic education.

The director did not want the music to be overtly emotional, so he and Pierre chose a minimalist orchestration, more often than not just a single guitar.

The photographs in the exhibition and the book, however, are not so overtly programmatic.

The Eurovision Song Contest has always been this political, but maybe never so overtly.