Once their grinning clown act is dropped, they slip into an expression of gravitas and angst, their yearning for normalcy glaringly clear.

He'd rerun his mental records of that fight again and again, and one point had become glaringly clear; she'd been terribly outnumbered, but she'd been the attacker.

In Phil Atlakson's new play, "Leapfrog Through Time & Space," the nightmares are glaringly clear.

This year in New Orleans, that need became glaringly clear.

The effect is puzzling at first, but then a familiar critique of consumerism and mass entertainment becomes glaringly clear.

The missing nation in all these multi-European military organizations became glaringly clear as each was enumerated.

What she wanted was glaringly clear, depicted in a dizzying series of erotic images that flooded his senses and ignited his imagination.

"It is disturbing, glaringly clear," says Mr Zakiary.

Self-help groups, which many participants had assumed were protected by a legal cone of silence, in fact are not, as became glaringly clear last year in the so-called Alcoholics Anonymous case.

The independence of photographers like Mr. LaChapelle was made glaringly clear in the controversy fanned by Ms. Sorvino.