Word: blatantly
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...zany ride through 1930s British society, complete with doddering alcoholic Brits for comic relief. Unfortunately, it all ends up being rather ungainly. This harmless movie won’t provoke any violent reactions, but it is a pitiful tribute to Wilde’s writing. In a desperately blatant attempt to make this film appealing to American viewers, Barker has moved the story out of Wilde’s Victorian drawing rooms and into 1930s Italy. Also, the two lead female roles, Lady Erlynne and Meg Windemere (Scarlett Johansson, “Lost in Translation”) have been inexplicably...
...dismiss the role genes play in shaping us. But they focus on the ways parenting can set up a child for a lifetime of joy or misery. "Bad parenting" is a phrase they're not afraid to use, and to their minds it encompasses much more than blatant offenses like physical and sexual abuse. Did you place your child in care before he was ready? Do you praise her more often for what she does than who she is? Do you tend to tell him how he should feel rather than acknowledge the way he does feel...
...addition to this blatant injustice, the SMART grants also fail to resolve the alleged problem of worker shortage in national security and technology-related fields. Because the grants do not necessitate that the student remain in the field after graduation or do government work, this supposed investment in education to increase national security may never come to fruition...
...It’s pretty blatant,” she said. “I’ve definitely smelled it walking down the hallways. One time, there was a glade plug-in in the hallway...
...become a disturbance. “On this campus, they have the right to regulate anything they want to if it is disturbing the peace,” he says. He adds that LSU’s continuing refusal to ban the flag is “a blatant slap in the face...