Word: blatantness
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...asinine rationalizations such grave-digging artists offer—from commemoration of the artists’ work to mourning the loss of a close friend—don’t hold water when there is blatant self-gain involved. However, incessantly forcing the image of the deceased into public consciousness may be justified on some level if such an endeavor produces some positive social effect or if the late artists’ work was particularly worthy of greater recognition...
...most blatant failure of the current system, whether a course counts for satisfying a distributional requirement is now a function of the instructor’s department,” the report reads, “not its particular intellectual content...
...course, by now we expect our politicians to be blatant opportunists. What was particularly discouraging was that mediator Cooper Anderson allowed other candidates to castigate Dean, stealing time from substantive debate. Anderson opened the discourse with the ostensibly noble assertion that he wanted to “try to keep things real” and avoid producing meaningless sound bytes. Yet, with his encouragement, the first few minutes of debate became an all-out assault on Howard Dean...
...back the wild and wooly past of Cambridge. But they will ensure that their proponents enjoy returns on their homes that would make many Wall Street investors weep. Taking the moral high ground in restricting all development is a farce—and, I think, little more than a blatant grab for returns on assets at the expense of those with the least ability to pay. It’s not about making Cambridge better; it’s about making homeowners richer...
...glorified advertisements” or “candy for people with short attention spans.” One interviewee noted, “The new Beyonce vizzle gets my pizzle all in a tizzle,” which All Sussed Out is hesitantly interpreting as indicative of the blatant exploitation of sex in hip-hop videos in order to move CD sales...