Word: obvious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the incipient group's obvious desire for success, Axelrod says that his main goal is to communicate to listeners, not make the Top 40. "People think you have to degrade your intellectual standards to appeal to the average man on the street," he says, describing his belief that this attitude is responsible for the creation of "music that just becomes a form of mental masturbation...
...difficult to see where this film is leading, especially because it is devoid of the obvious, manipulative devices used in so many American movies. Don't look for any sappy moments of oversentimentality here, or any jokes to hit you over the head. But the tone is appealing, and the characters are offbeat and well-defined, even if the plot seems a little slow...
...SHOULD vote? In America, the answer to that question seems obvious. Everybody should vote. Everybody...
...Safdie, who has been at Harvard since 1978, said that the charges are unfair and over-publicized. "It's obvious that somebody wants publicity for this," he said...
...Teaching Award won by Mr. Lee. Both men infuse their teaching of history with insights beyond the chronological and political--in Mr. Lee's case, the diplomatic and military: in Mr. Brinkley's, the social and intellectual. Far more important, both generate great interest from undergraduates through their own obvious enthusiasm for their subject and for their students...