Word: blatantness
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...delayed, you're trapped in a lounge full of idiots with those dangly cell phones and voices like chainsaws. You'd like to tell them to get lost. But in America we've seen a serious erosion of the right to be cranky. Ordinary grumpiness has been marginalized by blatant moodism, symptomized, pathologized, made to seem like a bad thing. Oprah is to blame for this, and the whole Onward & Upward, Little Engine That Could industry that has made smiliness obligatory. Look at the Clintons...
...Germany has stationed a number of Marders - tanks configured for operation in nuclear, chemical and biological environments - in Kuwait. If Schröder were really serious about keeping Germany out of "adventures," he would have withdrawn those tanks. But he has not, and he will not risk so blatant a breach with Germany's best ally. It is electioneering über alles. And cynical, to boot...
...you’ve been to the movies this summer, you undoubtedly noticed the string of commercials preceding the previews. Because movie-goers are the closest advertisers can get to a captive audience these days, expect this practice to become standard. To reach fickle (and TiVO-equipped) television viewers, blatant product placements are another avenue of attack. Coca-Cola’s infiltration of this summer’s hit “American Idol,” which had a set adorned with Coca-Cola paraphernalia, is indicative of marketing strategies to come. It’s only...
...Sometimes players get overzealous and they see the runner and try to create a collision,” Allard said. “But I didn’t feel [Goldberg’s collision] was blatant enough. And I said, ‘This is what the rulebook says.’ [The umpire] knew it, and he made the correct call...
...commission was established in 1947. The U.N. quickly sought to justify its vote, explaining that there had been a plethora of European candidates and that America had been hurt by its lack of a permanent ambassador at the time. This rationale, however, did very little to mitigate such a blatant denigration...