Two overt poems in an excellent and sensitive collection.
These poems by the author of "Well of Loneliness" are so overt that it is almost unbelievable that they were printed at all, but they were, and I have the books to prove it .
Even emotional and esthetic systems may breed a disposition toward the world and take overt effect.
Diplomacy is the veiled display of law clothed with force in behalf of this realization, and war is its overt manifestation.
Thus the only overt attempt to resist the authority of Charles V, apart from one or two insignificant Anabaptist riots, was crushed.
The idea and selection of material was borrowed from Luther and he was imitated also in the omission of allovert polemic material.
Sadism is a return to an infantile sex perversion, and in its direct overt forms the resulting conflicts are conscious and are between the subject and environment.
We have been discussing crowds in which hostility is present in the form of overt destructive and homicidal acts or other unmistakable expressions of hatred.
The overt manifestations of this tendency are known as perversions.
Surely there was no more innocent thing in nature than 'your philosophy,' then, so far as any overt acts were concerned; it certainly was the last thing in the world that a king or a queen need trouble their heads about then.
Upon this overt act of levying war the prisoners were convicted; some of the judges differing as to one of them, but merely on the application of the evidence to his case.
The crime of compassing and imagining the king's death must be manifested by some overt act; that is, there must be something done in execution of a traitorous purpose.
It is now therefore generally agreed, that no words will constitute that offence, unless as evidence of some overt act of treason; and the same appears clearly to be the case with respect at least to unpublished writings.
There are, most numerous of all, women who wink discreetly at husbandly departures, overt or in mere intent, from the oath of chemical purity taken at the altar.
The vast majority of those who appear in the public haunts of sin are there, not to engage in overt acts of ribaldry, but merely to tremble agreeably upon the edge of the abyss.
There is less of overt platitude in the doctrine that it is precisely this physical frailty that has given women their peculiar nimbleness and effectiveness on the intellectual side.
But for the vastly more various and numerous crimes of omission--and in sum they are more exasperating and intolerable than even overt felony--she cannot be brought to book at all.
The only overtact he spoke of, on the part of Germany, was the increase of the strength of the German garrisons in the neighbourhood of the French frontier.
It is certainly not politic to require of people in this frame of mind anovert manifestation of heartlessness and ingratitude to the dynasty which has had so mournful an end.
We want to have some hold over the government of Egypt, though we do not want to assume any overt responsibility.
Should the question be submitted to the people of Georgia, whether they would go out of the Union on Lincoln's election without regard to the action of other States, my opinion is they would determine to wait for an overt act.
In consequence, when the next overt act of insurrection occurred, at Cadiz, on September 17, there was a very general response throughout the Kingdom.
These suggestions were followed by the menace of overt acts which, if committed, would have had very serious results.
And yet, at the moment when his jealousy most furiously boiled over, he decided on taking the first overt step towards the accomplishment of the deed.
However this might have been, the overt step he had taken had certainly not had the effect of tranquillizing his mind.
And that as many * * * overt acts in the execution of the conspiracy as they are guilty of, may be laid in the same count.
It is probable that some overt action would have been undertaken very shortly when suddenly, on August 19, Geoffrey died, having been mortally hurt in a tournament, or from an attack of fever, or perhaps from both causes.
The Rani had feared that in spite of the solemn injunction she had laid upon Ahmad, his uncontrolled nature might have led him into some overt act against Sadescheo.
This official's overt functions are those of a District Provost Marshal--in reality, he is the Chief of Secret Police.
It lingered between them in the air, this demand, and they exchanged for the time a look which might have made each of them seem to have been watching in the other the signs of its overt irony.
We evidently are waiting for the "overt act," which I think Germany will not commit.
When Kellogg nodded, Mallin continued: "Did either of them make any actual, overt claim of sapience?
This, finally, brings us to one of the recognized overt manifestations of sapience.
The first lesson was that, however many and strong were the enemies we had to contend with, our sole overt fee must be Dollmann.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
