Cohen affirmed that despite blatant male appeal, Croft garnered a serious female audience.

In this sense, the play shares the more blatant romantic appeal of love-beyond-the-grave classics like "Wuthering Heights."

For more than two decades, every campaign for president has featured at least one nominee who made blatant appeals to the ideological wing of his party.

What President has ever made such a blatant appeal to stock owners?

"But for this girl to be making such blatant appeals to base instincts when our children are likely to be watching is a special disgrace."

The show's redeeming feature is its blatant appeal to kitsch taste.

Makers of child-monitoring products are making blatant appeals to such fears.

It's just such a blatant appeal to emotions, like putting up a sign: 'I'm appealing to your emotions.'

When the dialogue momentarily is in Spanish, he explains, "This is a blatant appeal for a grant."

That kind of blatant appeal continues to work.