Sentence examples for was less overt from inspiring English sources

Speaking at a town hall-style meeting at Binghamton University in New York, Mr. Obama said that even though there was less overt discrimination in modern society, the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow continued to afflict many in America.

But one suspects there was less overt vanity in Hitchcock's blink and miss 'em moments than in more grandstanding cameos like Francis Ford Coppola's TV director in Apocalypse Now (1979) or Oliver Stone's trader in the split-screen sequence in Wall Street (1987).

Other acts are less overt.

But one of the most interesting puzzles in all of this is less overt: Who is piloting the boat?

This Fantasia on Soviet Themes might be less overt, but was composed in 1943 as a tribute to Russian revolutionary heroism.

Collinsworth's language and tone can be less overt, evident only when juxtaposed with that of other announcers, including his broadcast partner, Al Michaels.

Requiring an independent doctor at games or for follow-up consultation would protect against similar incidents that players say are less overt but nonetheless prevalent in a league without guaranteed contracts.

In Britain, the home lenders Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley are fully nationalized, but the government's control of R.B.S. and Lloyds is less overt, though its influence, by most accounts, is just as strongly felt.

The sexism on the campaign trail in 2016 has been less overt than Clinton's first presidential bid, when she encountered a heckler who shouted at her: "Iron my shirt".

Other homages are less overt but no less inspired, like Robbert Flick's 1993 "Parade Route," which reproduces, through "continuous motorized photos," every step along the way of the Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif.

On Fox News, Hitler allusions are less overt, but crazy talk about Obama — dating to a 2008 suggestion that Michelle Obama's playful knuckle bump with her husband may have been "a terrorist fist jab" — is the stock in trade.