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But his new overtness is a better fit for where he is now.

From thought to overtness is but a single step," Hull replied sternly. "

Another dimension for analyzing language rights is with degree of overtness and covertness.

That interpretation of Flars overtness began to assume frightening significance.

You've seen this scene before, but its overtness – taking place right outside the official ticket pickup location -- was striking.

However, he felt that the "overtness" of the episode resulted in many scenes coming off as too on-the-nose or strained.

The Edelman-Merrin partnership, she feels, represents "a major change in scale and overtness.

It's the overtness of it.

Degree of overtness refers to the extent laws or covenants are explicit with respect to language rights, and covertness the reverse.

According to the overtness: snicker, snigger, guffaw.

The overtness of Jack's sexuality broke new grounds, the labels "pansexual" and "omnisexual" being applied to the character on occasion.

As with Gucci, the deftness of touch keeps this sort of overtness somewhere near the realm of practicality.

The overtness of that show — Kenny Powers riding a Confederate-flag boogie board, and so on — was its defense.

The residents of Port Royal generally resented the military and civilian occupiers, who exhibited racist superiority in varying degrees of overtness.

Other parameters for analyzing linguistic rights include the degree of territoriality, amount of positivity, orientation in terms of assimilation or maintenance, and overtness.

This also links with Japanese art, and the concept of shibumi, which may involve incompleteness, and supports the appreciation of bare objects, emphasizing subdety rather than overtness.

The overtness of the spider and its web thus has been speculated to prevent larger creatures from accidentally destroying the web and possibly crushing the spider underfoot.

Her references to, say, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens and Bob Dylan vary in overtness but are always observably manifest because they are built into her sound.

For hours she wrote letter after letter, destroying them as quickly as she wrote, as she found that she had but swayed pendulum fashion between overtness and coldness.

This parallels Bill Nichols's interpretation of documentary realism as "join[ing] together objective representation of the historical world and rhetorical overtness to convey an argument about the world."

The Act had the effect of penalising extremely crude forms of racial abuse where such an intention could reasonably easily be inferred because of the overtness of the language or conduct in question.

This new overtness I find regrettable: the crudely articulated element of erotic fantasy in The History Boys, for instance, would have been far more interesting and convincing had it been kept in the shadows.

As for the visual presentation, the voluptuous songstresses had no truck with the semi-nudity and sexual overtness that characterise most Western pop videos nowadays, yet they exuded a smouldering eroticism that, frankly, made a happy man feel very old.

His female characters are usually more in touch with their sexuality than the men, and unafraid to proclaim it, sometimes with breathtaking overtness (e.g., Cries and Whispers) as would define the work of "the conjurer," as Bergman called himself in a 1960 Time Magazine cover story.