His lips were hard, angry, vengeful, a blatant bid for mastery.

This time out, Ice T has abandoned hip-hop for hardcore rock in a fairly blatant bid for crossover.

UK newspaper The Scotsman wrote that the song "is her blatant bid to produce a Vogue for our times."

Instead, in a blatant bid to woo the country's farmers, they plan to sponsor a resolution demanding that France veto the agreement as it now stands.

I told both men that I smelled a large rat ... a blatant bid for publicity.

The last detail, the "orange-flavored lids," particularly grates-it seems like such a blatant bid for synesthesia, unearned.

Several of the men playing this year have complained that the seedings were a blatant bid for more telegenic pairings.

He avoids blatant bids for compassion.

It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways.

He accused Mr. Hevesi of issuing the report in a blatant bid for labor support in the forthcoming Democratic primary.