Sentence examples for overtly wants from inspiring English sources

Indeed, director John Carpenter pretty overtly wants him to be something of a Western cowboy (for instance, though a truck driver, Burton carries his belongings in a saddle bag).

The Republicans overtly want to privatize it.

They are overtly saying, 'I want him, I need him, I miss him — no homo!' And then they grow up and become depressed".

Only Mr. Wilson, a law student who prints his receivers on friends' machines, had overtly political motives, wanting to demonstrate what he called the absurdity of gun-control laws.

Most parents did not want overtly emotional discussions with oncologists.

So Mr Miliband will not overtly say that he wants Mr Murphy to get the job, but that is his desired outcome.

It's an audacious move, because the contemporary production, breathy vocals, and overtly romantic lyrics ("I want you to hold me forever and make it last / I want you to forget the others from my past") erase any sign of Clark's age.

If you don't want to overtly feature philosophical ideas in your novel, how sly about it can you be before the effect is lost?

Although it is likely that participants learned how the faces varied over the course of several trials, we did not want to overtly direct attention to the nature of the difference since it is as yet unknown how selective attention may influence the task.

Yet hardly anybody wants to be overtly against quality standards.

There is nothing so overtly grisly that you might want to avert your eyes.