And it would have been an awful scandal for me to act openly as their lover.
There were visits to make, forms to be observed, before she could act openly.
He maintained her in a Paris apartment, and she acted openly as his companion.
"You don't want to let your enemies act openly."
Balliol was acting quite openly in the English interest.
To act openly for once seems a course fraught with all manner of dangers.
They shouldn't have a team like that in Britain, acting so openly.
The king, then only 22 years old, was however afraid to act openly against so powerful a minister.
Citizens need to have confidence that those in authority are acting openly for them and in their best interests.
The lobbyists who try to influence us must also act openly.