Word: overtness
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...prestige of masculinity is in steep decline. The overt man bashing of recent years has refined itself into a pervasive snideness. What does a man have to say for himself...
Perhaps I exaggerate. Anyway, we know the overt man bashing of recent years has now refined itself into a certain atmospheric snideness -- has settled down to a vague male aversion, as if masculinity were a bad smell in the room. Man bashing is dispensed, so to speak, in aerosol spray (Man-Disss), which covers the male's nasty essence in a fine mist of shame...
...should also be aware of institutionalracism, which often is less overt then other kindsof racism," he added...
...foreign ministers of Croatia and the Serbian-led rump state of Yugoslavia signed an agreement in Geneva to improve their relations and to open diplomatic offices in each other's capital beginning Feb. 15. Diplomats feared that the separate Serb-Croat agreement could be a precursor to overt military cooperation against Bosnia...
...Blacks have often encountered impediments in science," he said. "They have confronted overt racism in many face-to-face encounters...