Word: blatantness
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Other students say they have encountered more blatant and offensive forms of prejudice. Fernandez says, for example, that a friend of hers received a patronizing note from the grader after being given a low grade on the paper...
...zone in southern Iraq. He miscalculated. On Dec. 27 a pair of Iraqi MiGs committed the double offense of entering the zone and then turning to confront U.S. F-16s. The American aircraft shot down one MiG; the other fled to Iran. Iraqi officials blasted the incident as "blatant aggression." President Bush said the shootdown was consistent with the need to enforce U.N. resolutions, and President-elect Bill Clinton gave him solid support. A day later, even as the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk was diverted from Somalia to the Persian Gulf, Iraqi warplanes violated the zone again, but retreated...
Five other Reagan administration officials had their convictions stricken from the record in the same gesture of Christmas goodwill. These five pardons were a sleazy post-election move, but Weinberger's pardon is a blatant perversion of justice that shows President Bush's disregard for due process...
Discrimination, although not as blatant as it was during World War II, continues to plague our community. Last spring, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights warned about the increasing number of anti-Japanese and anti-Asian hate crimes in this country. The report warned political and business leaders that these crimes were not unrelated to racebaiting campaign rhetoric that blames Japan for America's economic woes...
...machinations may backfire because historians may judge harshly a man who has tried so hard to second-guess them. Bush's efforts to prewrite the historical chronicles have been too blatant, too public. His attempts to seem statesmanlike instead paint the picture of the antithesis of a statesman: a politician too narrow in spirit to move beyond himself...