Word: overtness
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...preceding the Brahms, only further confirmed the painful facelessness of his style. Behind his strange podium histrionics and overliterate interpretations lies a dominant inability (or worse, an unwillingness) to truly communicate with his musicians. Amid this pedestrianism, most of Till's grotesque humor was lost, along with the overt charm of the Debussy Prelude. Season after season of such readings serve only to dull the sensibilities of entire audiences...
...such a way that the Fellows are exposed to a dozen different suggestions on how to use the year. The underlying assumption is that the Nieman Fellows are adult enough to select those courses and programs which would best enrich or help them. We do not need or want overt guidance, because this would be the surest prescription for stifling diversity...
...declaring that the First Amendment is no more embarrassed by the publication of prurient pornography than by pink politics. Both activities are fully protected, the two dissenters argued in Roth. While they recognize state power to regulate public morals, they would draw the line when state prohibitions go beyond overt behavior, such as public nudity, and enter the realm of ideas. In their view, obscenity lies in that realm and is thus protected by the national Constitution...
...said Quondam Photographer Armstrong-Jones-though in fact he still moonlights camera assignments. Tony interrogated every press photographer he could buttonhole about equipment and technique, and lost no opportunity to mention a new book on British artists that includes 370 of his photographs. Only once did Meg make an overt concession to fatigue. After 15 minutes in one Washington reception line, she sat down for the balance of the receiving. "My feet," she explained. "I take my shoes off at home...
...butchy, baby-faced homo in hood's clothing. In the boys' scenes together, Director Furie explores a touchy subject with restraint, letting his camera discreetly suggest that the lads' playful roughhousing is a series of love taps in disguise. When the truth of their relationship becomes overt-at a pierside bar frequented by seagoing queens−Colin shrinks from his sickening discovery. The two part, in a wordless, compassionate sequence that leaves only one of them doomed to the wretched half-world of homosexuality...