Example Sentences

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But there is a difference in comedy today, in aim and overtness.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

But in the same way that hip-hop is able to manifest its politics without overtness, much of the music Ms. Monáe has been fiddling with is also comfortably next-wave without advertising itself as such.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2015

I always walk from Sherton-Abbas, for if I hire, people will know that I come; and my success with you so far has not been great enough to justify such overtness.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

For hours she wrote letter after letter, destroying them as quickly as she wrote, as she found that she had but swayed pendulum fashion between overtness and coldness. 

From The Man by Stoker, Bram

The only secret part of his enterprise had been transacted with the Premier in Digby Square: for the rest, a plausible overtness of action was plainly desirable.

From Half a Hero A Novel by Hope, Anthony