Word: overtness
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Medea too is full of event and very little overt thinking. The son, Jason, grows up--in the space of about three cuts--and goes to reclaim the usurped kingdom of Corinth from his uncle, King Creon. The uncle sends him off to Colchis, a land of magic, to win the Golden Fleece, and when Jason returns with it tells him that he doesn't feel like keeping his promise. Jason also brings back with him Medea, a daughter of the king of Colchis...
...synod can force Makarios out as archbishop, although this would be dangerously unpopular. By making a show of his popularity, Makarios adroitly underscored the point that any overt attempt to topple him would raise the possibility of civil...
Most of them, however, did not, Something in them resisted overt madness, subverted it. They would not so easily let a dream go. The dream was not of reach, it is true, but these disappointed and half-mad men never lost their lust for it. Instead, they dwelt on it, their imaginations fed by the strangeness around them; they colored the image of the dream with the violence and exageration and passion of the landscape, and somehow, the dream became Realer than Reality, Larger than Life. They took the dream, and played with it, investing it with all the glamour...
...along the street en masse is not a very good way to get him to answer questions about the implications of his psychological and social theories, but it seems an effective means of frightening a man who has in recent weeks already been subjected to intimidation in less overt ways. And such incidents will naturally shift concern from the issues of Professor Herrnstein's ideas to his personal well-being...
...point is not that we think there's overt or conscious discrimination against women and minorities, but that they have the most to lose in a disorganized system," Goad added...