In plain sight

Usage examples of overtly.

Thinly veiled, but never expressed overtly, was the idea that much of our assimilationist rhetoric arose in direct antithesis to the perceived practices of our many immigrants from Mexico.

Paris, her status as Prima Ballerina set her apart from the other girls, and there were those who fawned and wanted to be her, and those who plotted and were cold and wanted to be her, or those who were overtly jealous and wanted to be her.

When Longo was comfortably by their position, she cast an overtly obscene gesture at his receding form, much to the surprise and poorly concealed delight of Et Silmarn.

It was only a matter of time before he did something overtly Catholiclike make the Sign of the Crossin front of someone who mattered to Roger.

The theory of intelligent design itself is not overtly theist - indeed its proponents try very hard not to draw religious conclusions.

If Twissel did not agree with what had to be done, she was never overtly disobedient, but things somehow kept going wrong.

Meanwhile the young generation of anti-sesthetic radicals, provoked by the overtly uncivic character of his poetry and by his notoriously reactionary sympathies, started a systematic campaign against him.

Kameimore overtly idealistic and ideologicalcame to personify the forbidden terrain of the new censored democracy.

Conrad of Marburg, bidding him proceed against the Luciferians, who were overtly given over to Satanism.

And sometimes, more overtly sexual charades involving the hiring of prostitutes and the testing of their personal tolerances.

Its major patrons were the big men in the mobs, successful entrepreneurs and merchants and the more overtly corrupt mandarins of the bureaucracy.

If there is anything which can safely be said about those who emotionally team up with narcissists, it is that they are overtly and overly dependent, even compulsively so.

Ireland, and Schnappsgoot of Holland, a retired dealer in gin and sardines, had united their forces--some nineteen men and a brace of bull pups in all--and were overtly at work, their object being to oust the tyrant.

Everything about her appealed to him, and that was surprising in itself, because there was nothing overtly sexual about her manner.

But a "sophistication" that sees Wilde as worldly to that extent will miss one important reason why even his breeziest pages have a depth of interest usually confined to writing of a more overtly serious kind.