In his programs, Mr. Sherry is avoiding obvious favorites like the early "Verklarte Nacht" in favor of works that touch on the themes of the series.

The 20-minute, two-mile safari tours were an obvious favorite.

Only when the luck played obvious favorites, as sometimes happened despite the assurances of the experts on probability, was it a critical factor.

He doesn't put epiphanies in the characters' mouths, push the camera into their faces or play obvious favorites, though generally his men come out looking worse than his women.

Vladimír Franz appears insignificant in agency surveys but in November he was the obvious favorite of opinion polls of several different popular news servers and media (Aktuálně.

There is no obvious favorite.

The obvious favorite has won at a mile and a quarter, has carried the weight and has won a Grade I stakes.

And this year, anything can happen; there's no team that's the obvious favorite.

The victory, Roffe-Steinrotter said, makes Street the obvious favorite for Saturday's downhill.

Of the four presidents, Mr. Clinton was the obvious favorite of the crowd.