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- overt + -ly (Wiktionary)
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“On Monday, more than 200 students rallied at Wheeler Hall in Berkeley to protest against what they called overtly aggressive tactics by the police.”
“Most readers are not interested in overtly religious stories and publishers want to make sure that the story is aimed at the right audience.”
“The only avenue left to them to excuse the extremists of their party whom they have been encouraging, tacitly or overtly, is to say “both parties do it.””
“Judging by the recent rise in overtly violent and revolutionary rhetoric, the entire community at FreeRepublic and similar sites should be placed on a watch list just as a start.”
“But the institution of the pope is steeped in overtly history-shaping doctrine that, in my humble opinion, has lead directly to planetary overpopulation.”
“When nothing overtly is going on, make sure that a great deal is at work beneath the surface.”
“Nowadays, except in overtly camp performances like Love Story, the typical novelistic or dramatic response to dying, at almost any age, is rage against man and the universe.”
“This essay uses a short poem by Matthew Arnold to illustrate features of self-projection that become even more striking in overtly Wordsworthian poems like "The Scholar Gypsy.”
“Here I will use a short poem by Matthew Arnold to illustrate features of self-projection that become even more striking in overtly”
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism
“A lot of weird stuff happens very overtly, which is mild fun but ultimately fails to unsettle you.”
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