Not all candidates have been so overt.
"Being a mother, I know now there are ways you can fight for things and get your way without being so overt about it".
Intrigues within the royal court may explain why Saudi foreign policy, which has traditionally been discreet and cautious and conducted largely behind bead curtains, is so overt.
And yet, like "Seen Art?" and many other museum books, its message is so overt that it goes down like medicine rather than a meal.
When people talk about Big Brother, they generally mean a system of covert surveillance and manipulation, oppression in democratic disguise (unlike the system in Orwell's book, which is so overt that it is advertised).
This manifests itself in sentiments such as: "Yes, OK, I'm as gay-friendly as anyone but do we really have to be so overt about it all?" Sometimes, it is followed by: "You wouldn't see so much hoopla if it was another minority group".
It had to happen, and it was always destined to flush out the racists and the resisters, who have consolidated themselves in the Republican party and have been so overt that they have succeeded in disgusting much of the rest of the country and reducing the moral standing of their party.
His suit-and-tie look for this record might be a tired homage to Cary Grant, but musically, the recent-retro of last decade is so overt and in your face that you have no choice but concede it as a formal aspect of the record.
On the show it's so overt.
