In Chaucer's day the listeners would have been howling with laughter throughout, from the description of the Knight himself, with his mismatched armour, patently stripped from bodies on the battlefield, to the crude behaviour of the characters in a tale whose subtleties he doesn't understand, to his own, uncourtly, predilection for accumulating wealth.
Eden Park is first and foremost a rugby ground, which is patently obvious from first sight of the place.
Those proxies – vitrine builders, cryogenic engineers and the rest – aren't actually present in the work, but they do allow the artists to be patently absent from it.
The exhaustive preparation and minute attention to detail that he demanded limited the range of his repertoire, but patently sprang from an integrity he shared with conductors such as Toscanini, Furtwängler and Klemperer.
The influence of the emerging parameters are patently obvious from the Table 6, and hence are not discussed for conciseness.
This, even though it was patently obvious from the most casual encounter with her that some benzos would have done her good.
This principle was patently evident from the data presented in Tables 3 and 4 where the Yx/s value of the parental D5A+ strain on glucose without hydrolysate supplementation was more than six-fold lower than when xylose was supplied as carbon source in the chemically defined medium, which implied a predominantly oxidative metabolism with xylose as carbon source.
Toby Stephens's Gatsby is so rough around the edges, so patently an up-from-the-street poseur that no one could fall for his stories for a second.
In this adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel made for television, Paul Rudd makes a brilliant Nick Carraway, but, Caryn James wrote in The New York Times, "Toby Stephens's Gatsby is so rough around the edges, so patently an up-from-the-street poseur that no one could fall for his stories for a second".
Such a creature was patently far removed from the sluggish reptiles of convention, and it helped to trigger a dramatic process of re‑evaluation among palaeontologists.
