advertent

“We don’t want to have the door open that they can go see advertent nudity and sexual acts or the depiction of sexual acts,” said Republican Sen. Becky Massey.

Federal prison authorities, he said, “would have very, very substantial concerns about that because of the risk of either advertent or inadvertent disruption of the IV lines.”

The next morning Evelyn appears cold and still in her bed, as Stella realizes that she has become an inadvertent — or perhaps advertent? — murderer.

And it’s very dark, so inadvertent — or advertent — touching just might occur.

Thirty-five years later, it is possible to see Micheaux as a central figure in American culture and, advertent or not, one of the great innovators in American cinema.