manifest an intention

The worship of gods connected with them is denounced, but without any manifest intention of referring to the heavenly bodies.

They had been playing tennis, with his manifest intention looming over her.

The shepherd hobbled up to me and pulled a tranquilizer pistol from his belt with a manifest intention of rendering me unconscious.

He was particularly concerned with tone color: he advised that "The player should cultivate a seismograph-like sensitivity to brusque changes of tone colour caused by fingerings based on expediency and comfort rather than the composer's manifest or probable intentions."

Even when Adam took from his pocket Lady Arabella's letter, with the manifest intention of reading it, he did not make any comment.

Secondly, the manifest intention is that European taxpayers should pay for infrastructure in the countries of the Maghreb, in Turkey or the Middle East and I, for my part, am opposed to that.

His actions, which had been described by Italian historian Erberto Petoia as having "manifest blackmailing intentions", ended only after the intervention of Prime Minister Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour.

Stephen might well have been at a loss to understand his anger, as, with manifest intention to wound, he answered her: 'What a girl you are, Stephen.

During those hours there is no manifest intention to exercise any such control.

At any rate at the beginning, there was a certain even-handedness towards France and the Vietminh coupled with resistance to France's manifest intention that the US could hardly help being involved, one way or another, even though they professed neutrality.