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"They are a record of the period, but without any overt messages.

He has no overt message in his slowly shifting landscape.

The overt message is that there continues to be a problem in this semipro industry.

Fertility and nurturance are not the overt message in Madonna's look.

He'd left an overt message this time-the signature of signatures.

The staging is updated, but there is no overt message to the concept.

Spears' ninety-minute set had a bunch of overt messages and one simple, unspoken message.

Thompson wrote primarily to entertain her young readers, with no overt message, moral, homily, or didactic purpose.

Devoid of an overt message, the ballet is a pure-dance exploration of musical contrasts.

There is no overt message in this year's premieres; what is new is an ambiguity toward the movement material.

They would write poems in the style of each other, about each other, and even embed overt messages to one another in their verse.

The overt message is a simple one: Fur is back as a fashion statement; faux furs are faux pas.

There was a world of tenderness in the way the man held her sister, and an overt message conveyed by the protective way his body sheltered hers.

The overt message of Elizabeth Stone's article "Off the Couch" (Dec. 6) is that neurobiological and psychopharmacologic measures are taking over psychiatric residency training.

As far as the filmmakers are concerned, the film provides no easy answers, no overt message; instead, it is meant to challenge audiences to come up with their own conclusions.

The most overt message of faith comes toward the end of the film, when one of the characters recites a verse from the Book of Psalms for comfort.

Putting Out the Message The overt message is: Governor Dukakis of Massachusetts, the prospective Democratic Presidential nominee, is a politician who likes other politicians.

The fact that Doctor Zhivago contained no overt messages of dissidence highlighted the clumsiness of the state's censorship process, which caused a shift of readership away from state-published material.

"The words of the gurlesque "luxuriate: they roll around in the sensual while avoiding the sharpness of overt messages, preferring the curve of sly mockery to theory or revelation". "

But the story spends so much time prodding us with hints and overt messages about the grandiosity of its subject that it fails to actually show us anything particularly grandiose, or even convincingly meaningful.

However, due to pressures caused by the switch to ringback tones as the main sales media and a concern that their songs were "funny but not lasting", they switched to more overt messages, understandable within a 30-second clip.

Nubeluz featured several competitions between children (and even adults on occasion) divided into two colored teams, always red and yellow, plus songs and dances, some with overt messages, performed by the Dalinas, interspersed with cartoons.

FAILE, like many of their contemporaries in the street art community, emphasize art making over indirect political statements or sloganeering, but their work often contains both passive and overt messages, usually cloaked in ambivalence.

For one whose overt message is "help the people," this film conveys the feeling of the elitist film maker, who is as humanly insensitive as the General Motors robber baron he blames for Flint's demise.

"We hope that Judge Thomas, who has always eschewed bigotry, will publicly acknowledge the danger in attempting to distinguish elements of a bigot's program which might be considered positive from an overt message of vicious racism and anti-Semitism."