In fact, I can't really think of any other blatant examples of this phenomenon right now. |
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It is, however, one of the most blatant examples of companies trying to pass off an advertisement as reality. |
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It is not too blatant and it might work as it allows people to move from one sphere to another without stepping into the rain. |
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This is no more blatant than anything that any other politician engages in on a daily basis. |
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The audience was not going to be satisfied with such a blatant appeal to sentimentality. |
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Many lecturers will drop hints, ranging from subtle to blatant, as to what will be in the exam. |
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The fact that such a detail stands out suggests the blatant lack of memorable songwriting and production on much of this album. |
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His action was too blatant, though still acceptable in the eyes of parliament. |
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This can be avoided by restricting blatant and misleading advertising in the media. |
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No self-respecting activist desires to have his cause championed by any such horde of loud-mouthed, blatant blatherskites. |
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How can this guy be such a blatant fabulator and still get even one fourth of the votes that he has? |
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The cloggers have gone, for the most part, because referees have long since been alerted to blatant physical assault. |
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After all, a body-check is blatant obstruction and should be punished accordingly. |
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This was a blatant insult to Russia and an affront to the whole free world. |
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A despicable attack of blatant hatred has failed completely to tear us apart. |
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It seems like blatant sheltering and effectively muzzles the people expressing their views. |
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How can he be allowed to get away with such blatant, unhistorical nonsense? |
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It's the comments on this article that really got my goat, full of unhidden racism and blatant stupidity. |
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From what I saw, it looked more like an accidental contact than a blatant pull across the head. |
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If we had, we would not treat blatant apologists for the Soviet Union with fond indulgence and even respect. |
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When you consider three of Manning's incompletions were blatant throwaways, he had an outstanding night. |
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What we have here is a blatant undermining of the system under the cover of legality. |
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Still, the latest meeting was a good contest, not short of lively exchanges, memorable clashes and the occasional burst of blatant hostility. |
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The continued blind oversight of human rights abuses in conjunction with the blatant abuse of democracy is patent, and is incomprehensible. |
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Admittedly, by reporting this blatant publicity stunt, we're fueling it to some extent, and that makes us a tad uncomfortable. |
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He says that when train engineers blow their horns through town it is blatant harassment. |
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The blatant bigotry of the monologue presumably dispels any lingering doubts that such responses by whites are acceptable. |
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You've been doing more for the system than the clamant renegades or blatant sell-outs you despise. |
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Next to the airlines, the local authorities are the biggest robbers of all, and this exercise is another example of blatant daylight robbery. |
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What gets me is the blatant attempt to get you to vote for this madness by dangling the job carrot. |
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He referred to this being the second abduction by the father in blatant disregard and disobedience to an order of the Spanish court. |
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The blatant lack of cooperation only complicated the inexperienced Cabinet's ability to devise a common thread of economic policymaking. |
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To take the easy way out, one might just chalk both up to blatant stupidity, but there are always other reasons as well. |
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More than this, it is a blatant distortion of the historical record to claim that only McCarthy was opposed to Communist spies. |
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This important passage contains at least one blatant lie and a wide assortment of half truths. |
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That the palomino was a mare was blatant enough, though she couldn't have pointed to one specific thing. |
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This is just a blatant incorrect usage that happened so often that the rules changed. |
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We need not look far for contemporary examples of blatant divisive methods employed by community leaders. |
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The six-step breakbeat boogie combines with the suspicious brass of 50s cartoons and dazes Doom's creatures with its blatant sardonicism. |
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I can't do that when the head of this Project makes blatant sexual come-ons to his partner's woman. |
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The allegation against the celebrated cricketer of yesteryear is no doubt one of committing a blatant criminal offence. |
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This is most blatant in France because of the highly centralised state and government control known as jacobinisme. |
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A particularly blatant scene was overdubbed so the actor's mouth movements do not at all match the words coming from it. |
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Clark's talent has always been about paradox, the chaste classical lines of his choreography inflected with a blatant sexual frisson. |
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It is blatant deception and will have left a lot of people feeling cheated and angry. |
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It is a deliberate attempt to be different, a blatant statement that the cars are for the discerning driver who loves designer chic. |
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The scale rewards honor, chivalry and courage, but also deducts for blatant foolishness and sheer idiocy. |
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The lawsuits, marketing guidelines and the self-policing nature of the industry have been effective at curbing blatant greenwash. |
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It is a blatant conflict of interest and misappropriation of funds, as well as possible collusion and conspiracy to commit fraud. |
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He made sure it would be a draw last Sunday when he baffled everyone by not giving a blatant free to Cork in the last minute. |
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Journalists are running back and forth across town to find the most egregious technical errors and blatant fraud. |
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I'm also never said anything about which is better, I just called you out on your blatant fanboying and misinformation. |
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In reality what happens is the blatant misuse of public office for pecuniary gain. |
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A police officer witnessed this blatant disregard for the law and attempted to ticket the student for jaywalking. |
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Perhaps it's partially the combination of personification and blatant gender stereotypes. |
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The reason this inference amounts to a logical fallacy is that it is just a blatant non sequitur. |
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This was a blatant act of vandalism perpetrated by an individual or group as a deliberate act. |
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On the other hand, neither is it at the other end of the spectrum in which rights were trammeled in blatant disregard for the Charter. |
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This movie spends a little too much time on the rah-rah and the drama, and not enough on the blatant unrealities of this town. |
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It is abhorrent and deplorable both in its shoddy journalism and blatant personal assault on our artists. |
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As the glass lowered he peered inside, scanning the cabin for any blatant misdoing. |
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But if you don't feel comfortable with such blatant figure fudging, you can tinker with the words. |
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The company's art directors have always stopped short of what they see as blatant titillation. |
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After months in denial, he let his emotions show this week, after the most blatant round of leaking yet. |
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It gives the story a slight metafictional spin, bouncing between blatant product placement and mockumentary. |
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It appears that the administration will attempt to finesse this problem by the blatant expedient of pretending the borrowing never happened. |
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The leaders find themselves in more trouble than their predecessors faced over much more blatant war lies. |
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Generally the tradition is to tell lies so blatant that even small children spot them. |
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It was a blatant lie, and both men knew it, but neither cared all that much. |
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There's no blatant lie in that sentence but it's hardly the whole truth either is it? |
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To credit the newspaper, they did retract the quote once it was exposed as a blatant lie. |
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We have called him out several times on his blatant plagiarism in the Bahama Journal. |
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Given the blatant bias in the reporting, the whole study has to be suspect. |
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It is amazing that we put up with such blatant rip-offs and someone suggested that we think with our feet and shop around. |
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It is nothing but a blatant act of unilateral intervention, outside the UN umbrella. |
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Challenge those responsible for this blatant neglect and the place instantly takes on the air of the confessional. |
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Magistrates described his driving record as horrendous and said he was in blatant breach of a court order. |
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Prejudice that blatant doesn't usually get aired outside the pub these days. |
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It may be that the source and schemes behind these blatant lies can be revealed by a court case. |
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He stands there, squinting his eyes and pursing his lips, going on and on with such blatant lies. |
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I think that we know that there are blatant lies that are being told by both camps. |
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Think of the company, and its blatant disregard for honesty, fair competition and legal strictures. |
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Second, you must submit to a two-and-a-half year purgatory of character assassination and blatant distortion of your record as a public official. |
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His article was not only disappointing but appeared to be blatant propaganda. |
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He called the advertising a blatant attempt to buy votes for the coming election. |
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When blatant opportunities arose for commentary, the main issue was left out entirely. |
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Perhaps I'd just misunderstood, or squandered a blatant opportunity, I thought. |
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What are hundreds of children going to ask or think when they see this blatant advertisement for sexual equipment? |
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I'm sure the blatant similarities and unmusicality of the tunes in the music section was deliberate, but I personally would have liked variation. |
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According to Haselberger, the archdiocese ignored not only blatant secular crimes, but obvious canonical crimes as well. |
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A blatant case of interrogators asking leading questions is that of David Vasquez. |
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True, it is grounded in the realities of a fight against a sort of blatant segregation that no longer exists. |
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To make excuses for such blatant stupidity is even more absurd. |
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The chief justice seemed to be arguing that anything short of hostility or blatant evangelism was kosher. |
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I saw three occasions of blatant queue-jumping, and my fella got into a fight with a woman over this at one point in the Virgin Megastore by the Louvre. |
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A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone were balanced on the track in a blatant act of sabotage. |
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Abdul was beloved for her ditzy demeanor and blatant sentimentalism on American Idol. |
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On one occasion when Sue had seen blatant lawbreaking, the police arrived. |
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Not so much a send-up of TV news back then although there were a few good zingers as it took a look at the blatant sexism and chauvinism in the 1970's workplace. |
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When the revaluation of 19th-century art took place with the final recognition of the impressionists, this contrast was too blatant to be ignored. |
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The spin on the Telegraph story is so blatant that it reeks of desperation. |
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One of the soldiers responsible for this act of blatant provocation explained the rationale. |
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General readers who have stayed this far will not be surprised that, in the face of such a blatant rebuff, the Reserve Bank did nothing. |
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A retrospective glance at the 2000-2001 regular season offers ample proof of blatant mismatches. |
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A blatant transvestite of uncertain morality has been arrested after being reported most scantily dressed on Beach Road by shocked oil riggers on holiday. |
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The beer segment is especially funny with its blatant sexist overtones. |
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I would like to encourage the local authorities to go down this road to put a stop to the blatant ignorance many motorist demonstrate in relation to the rules of the road. |
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Even as the camera recorded this blatant act of arson, on the parapet sat a group of women, one of them nonchalantly dangling her legs, watching the tamasha. |
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This is a blatant lie, and a stark example of aggressive male chauvinism. |
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We also read of Treasury's blatant role in pushing the business interests of Wall Street by using bailouts to force nations to open their capital markets to foreigners. |
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The second intervention was much more blatant and actually occurred in the middle of an election campaign. |
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Such errors normally related to the blatant misconstruction of a statute, and in limited circumstances the courts could intervene to correct the erroneous decision. |
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But two blatant misidentifications are completely unforgivable. |
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They were content to overlook all but the most blatant infractions. |
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I'd just like to expose this statement as a blatant pack of lies. |
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The abuse was very blatant and it shocked me that it could be so overt. |
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I have never seen such a blatant boldfaced turnaround of information. |
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Credit Winfrey, first, with adding gravitas and objectivity to what is ultimately a blatant and shameless grab for ratings. |
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His tongue-in-cheek lyrics and sex-drenched growling vocals, gave a huge smackdown to the critics and music industry tools blatant ignorance of indie bands. |
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In the meantime, I continue to be amazed at the blatant unprofessionalism of most cable television news interviewers and the breathtaking dishonesty of their guests. |
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What you mistake for humor is nothing more than virulent and blatant homophobic garbage, utterly unworthy of the 140-year-old magazine entrusted to your care. |
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Every day of the week, police cars will drive past prostitutes who are soliciting and ignore them unless it is blatant, offensive, or something of that nature. |
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In this instance, you have the unsavory spectacle of blatant cynicism racing neck and neck with latent xenophobia. |
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Of course, on the other hand, he was a man of many half-truths and blatant untruths and she risked her life for his cause on a regular basis. |
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From the first page on, there's a blunt, blatant, even brazen certainty in this work. |
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We fought blatant racism, and non-acceptance for a long time. |
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Still, there are egregious cases of blatant exploitation of the suffering of victims which apparently evoke no outrage, no vexation among the supporters of the war. |
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Some rioters tried to keep the focus on the blatant unfairness of Lincoln's draft laws in which, for 300 dollars, the rich could buy themselves out of the service. |
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A blocked handball right on the edge of the box by an East Belfast player was followed by a blatant trip as Ian Smith threatened to burst past the penalty spot. |
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He had been used to regarding his comrade as a blatant child with an audacity grown from his inexperience, thoughtless, headstrong, jealous, and filled with tinsel courage. |
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This blatant, and rather pathetic, display of part-building earned him scorn from his vertically challenged friends who later accused him of selling-out to heightist society. |
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Would any self-respecting sovereign nation accept such blatant intervention in its internal political affairs? |
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It is precisely in such periods that the lies of the state assume an ever more blatant and odious character. |
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He uses jingoism as a blatant vote catcher, and much to disgrace of the Australian electorate, it's working. |
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The product placement, meanwhile, is so blatant that the film should carry a public health warning. |
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It is time that divine help stepped in and coached Hollywood on the follies of shoddy impersonation, and even worse, blatant colloquialism of all verbal history. |
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The final day of this year's Alternative Fashion Week saw a variety of collections ranging from the understated to blatant exhibitionism. |
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The film is littered with blatant plugs for a variety of brand names. |
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In fact, the British flacks have used their facade of congeniality and cooperation to spread some of the most blatant falsifications of the campaign. |
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There is no question but that these actions were a blatant breach of trust that was accomplished by forgery and attempted to be justified by fraud. |
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Is there anything more cringeworthy than a series of unfunny childhood anecdotes and blatant sexual references strung together in a monotone drawl? |
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All of this might be put down to us being both blatant and stupid travellers, ignorantly and arrogantly swanning our way around and duly receiving our just deserts. |
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This might have been an energetic exercise in cheap shots and blatant pommy-bashing. |
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This is a blatant infringement on the basic constitution of the right to free speech. |
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And thus the too-good-to-be-true ending is not only useful flattery of the king, but also a deus ex machina so blatant the author surely wants us to disbelieve it. |
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How can anyone accept blatant half-truths, lies and distortion of history? |
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Blatant cheating is considered less offensive than the utterance of odious words. |
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Blatant nonrecognition of shipping achievements in international business can only aggravate situations like this. |
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I have at least ten awful driver mistakes done in blatant fashion in front of me every day I cab. |
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Owen had a much more convincing penalty appeal just before half-time, but Andreas Dober somehow got away with a blatant, over-the-top foul. |
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The report details dozens of blatant civil rights abuses, many alleging inhumane treatment of prisoners at the hands of Department employees. |
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The zine was a collection of random findings, blatant appropriation and collages. |
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Is the film a gratuitous violence fest or maybe just a blatant metaphor for how greed corrupts? |
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It was unclear if the blatant display of her body was meant as a sexual advance or some other expression of heteroflexibility or homosociality. |
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The slamdunk emails that prove a discriminatory attitude or blatant favouritism or inappropriate relationships. |
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This is a terrible movie, aimed at franchise fans who just want their annual fix and don't mind shoddiness and blatant ridiculousness. |
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Their anti-solar proposal is the most egregious in the nation, yet their only evidence is a blatant self-contradiction. |
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In fact I've rarely felt anything other than bemusement at how referees allow him to get away with his acts of blatant deceit. |
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While the NCA can highlight blatant rip-offs, the agency is a toothless watchdog that can only bark. |
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Yet for all his stylistic authenticity, his singing was overemotive, sometimes sloppy and vocally blatant. |
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With the deceased laid to rest, nation follows to grieve and condemn the blatant act of barbarianism. |
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Our Aussie challenger on the left should've been disqualified with such a blatant kick Down Under. |
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This is one of the more blatant forms of brandjacking, in which a person claims to be an official representative of the company. |
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A blatant penalty appeal was turned down when ex-Leeds United Academy player Damon Reaks was brought down in the box. |
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So what happened to art and how did its commodification become so blatant? |
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It is pretty easy to make fun of such blatant wowsers, but the fact is that the events of April 18-19, 1775, are somewhat complicated. |
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It was a blatant goal opportunity and next year that is a man off but there is no point whinging about it. |
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Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. |
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The editorial was a blatant attempt to manipulate public opinion. |
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They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. |
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In 2002, the nation was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations due to the reckless farm seizures and blatant election tampering. |
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Bush, with his in-your-face attitude, has spelled out the nature of our collective criminality in such a blatant manner. |
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In the space of half an hour, I spotted blatant plugs for Slim Panatella cigars and Winceyette pyjamas. |
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The Aussie ignored blatant 'crossing' obstruction in midfield which allowed Hayato Daimon to skid over. |
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Just look at typical TV hunting shows currently on the air and the blatant product promotion and classless behaviors exhibited. |
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It's a timewasting ploy as blatant as kicking the ball away or taking too long over a throw-in. |
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For these purposes, recklessness is defined as a blatant disregard for the dangers of a particular situation. |
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Superman Returns'' is a comic book movie for people who like virtuous superheroes, soap-opera story lines and blatant messianic allegories. |
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The crass cultural chauvinism and blatant flackery that surrounded and fed American pop have not by any means gone from the art scene, but they are muted. |
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That small of a fine for that kind of blatant disregard is cray. |
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Mirific, a gelded son of Perugino, chased home yesterday's listed winner Blatant when making his racecourse debut at Naas three weeks ago. |
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The most blatant is the flag of Georgia, which is the actual first flag of the Confederate States of America with the state seal added to the center. |
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But seldom has an example of a postcode lottery been so blatant, so heart-rendingly unjust and acutely damning as that concerning young mum-of-two Samantha Cousins. |
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Corruption may very well be one of the most blatant expressions of inequality in our society, a long-running zero-sum game whose stakes keep getting higher. |
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The article should be speedy deleted, as a blatant and obvious hoax. |
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Fulham 1 Rotherham 1 STEVE EVANS' bad week got worse with the Rotherham manager insisting his side were denied a crucial win by a blatant handball. |
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