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explicit as in:  explicit instructions

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  • We need to be more explicit so this will not be misunderstood.
    explicit = precise and clear
  • Some kids waved to their parents, but only briefly—it was an explicit instruction that they march straight and don't look or wave to the crowd.   (source)
    explicit = clear
  • Ever since Newton and Descartes, science has explicitly offered us the vision of total control.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • But Peter and I made that pact: we explicitly said we would never tell anyone.   (source)
  • The lawyer never explicitly encouraged dishonesty, but he did make it clear that what I said would either increase or decrease the odds that Mom spent additional time in prison.   (source)
    explicitly = specifically (in exact words)
  • We tried to keep a bop in our step, tried to keep it cool, but by now we were pretty explicitly speed-walking.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly
  • He wondered if Fache had any idea that this pyramid, at President Mitterrand's explicit demand, had been constructed of exactly 666 panes of glass—a bizarre request that had always been a hot topic among conspiracy buffs who claimed 666 was the number of Satan.   (source)
    explicit = clear and detailed
  • In any case, it seemed to him that if Cedric had really wanted to give Harry a hand, he would have been a lot more explicit.   (source)
  • Nobody explicitly gave me permission to do this, and they can't until I'm aboard Ares 4 and operating the comm system.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • There was no rule explicitly forbidding exercise at such an hour, but it was not expected; ordinarily therefore Mr. Ludsbury would have disapproved.   (source)
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  • In my admission letter from Duke it actually explicitly says that they won't take me if I get arrested.   (source)
  • A good example of the explicit warnings of the male contingent is the following conversation with Jan: Annex: "We're afraid that when the Germans retreat, they'll take the entire population with them."   (source)
    explicit = clear
  • It was also explicitly entrepreneurial.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • "A lady might not like a man," Mrs. Liddell said, "but she shouldn't show it so explicitly as you do."   (source)
    explicitly = clearly
  • I think of myself as an obedient woman; up until this time I'd generally done the things told to me by Mother, or Mameha, or even Hatsumomo when I'd had no other choice; but I felt such a combination of anger at Mother and longing for Yasuda-san that I made up my mind right then to do the very thing Mother had ordered me most explicitly not to do.   (source)
  • The boy hadn't explicitly addressed his note to either one of them, but Masooma had casually assumed that he'd intended the poem for her and the cousin for Parwana.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • She hung up the phone and summoned my brother Richie to the kitchen, gave him carfare and explicit instructions:   (source)
    explicit = clear and detailed
  • The sane universities never went near this stuff, but Carnegie Mellon gave us explicit license to break the mold.   (source)
    explicit = clear
  • I am disappointed in Dr. Jordan; I had some previous correspondence with him, in which I warned him explicitly against this cunning woman.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • But even so, there was a more explicit problem with the mayor's argument that, as he'd put it, "those fields weren't made for soccer."   (source)
    explicit = clear
  • Not that the Officials said that explicitly; it's simply the kind of thing we've learned to keep to ourselves.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • If they did not follow these instructions explicitly, they would be killed.   (source)
    explicitly = precisely
  • His poise, his explicitness, the assured presentation of verifiable detail impressed Nye-though, of course, the boy was lying.   (source)
    explicitness = detailed clarity
  • I distinctly remember being explicit in the choice of pronoun.   (source)
    explicit = clear and detailed
  • Colonel Korn had been most explicit about that.   (source)
  • Well, Mrs. Thibodaux had been pretty explicit about what we'd be doing all day—setting up tables and chairs in preparation for tomorrow's wedding.   (source)
  • But the banner carried essentially the same message, a more explicit version of "Never Again." Deo translated for me: "Never forget the genocide and the people who were slaughtered here."   (source)
  • But that authority was explicitly granted to other members of law enforcement statewide by Arizona State Bill 1070, an effort to increase pressure on undocumented immigrants in the state to leave.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • He told me that I would never make it in the workplace if I didn't follow directions explicitly.   (source)
    explicitly = precisely (exactly as described)
  • Her will was quite explicit when it came to the painting.   (source)
    explicit = clear and specific
  • The Judge asked him to be more explicit; did she reproach me with having sent her to the Home, and he said, "Yes," again.   (source)
    explicit = clear and detailed
  • Explicit directions regarding the place of burial were given.   (source)
  • …who again and again, in the most explicit language, denounced wealth and the holding of wealth: 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth!'   (source)
  • He wrote a number of brief notes, one to Colonel Adye, gave them to his servant to take, with explicit instructions as to her way of leaving the house.   (source)
  • "Now, my good man," said the lawyer, "be explicit."   (source)
  • I should have liked something clearer; but Mrs. Fairfax either could not, or would not, give me more explicit information of the origin and nature of Mr. Rochester's trials.   (source)
  • My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.   (source)
  • I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house.   (source)
    explicit = clear
  • The president then sought to make him speak more explicitly, but M. de Quesnel replied that he wished first to know what they wanted with him.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • "Are you the man that will shelter a poor woman and child from slave-catchers?" said the senator, explicitly.   (source)
  • But you are not entitled to know mine; nor will such behaviour as this, ever induce me to be explicit.   (source)
    explicit = clear and detailed
  • Naturally, how she had "involved herself" was not made explicitly clear to Owen and me; we had to rely on those parts of the story that my Aunt Martha had reported to Dan—substantially more of the story than she had reported to my grandmother, who was of the opinion that a sailor had made a "pass" at poor Hester, an exercise in crudeness that had made Hester want to stay home.†   (source)
  • Well, I don't know if it's explicitly stated in the law, but you can't ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up.†   (source)
  • Maybe his parents knew somehow about yesterday.... Even if they did, Park hadn't done anything with Eleanor that he'd ever been explicitly told not to do.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I explicitly remember the images from my past, remember being a part of them.†   (source)
  • It was always stuff like that, and never explicitly claimed, just implied by her smile and "let's say no more" expression.†   (source)
  • They weren't, not explicitly so, but the fiction was encouraged, in the upper city and elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Unlike conventional police departments, the Guard's mandate explicitly emphasized the novel idea of preventing crime rather than merely arresting wrongdoers after the fact.†   (source)
  • Scheliing said explicitly that the world is 'in God.'†   (source)
  • That is the message explicitly spelled out by his sermons, and it is the message symbolically embodied in the empty tomb.†   (source)
  • But Rob had explicitly forbidden me to go ahead, and Lopsang was still far below, shortroping Pittman, so there was nobody to accompany Ang Dorje.†   (source)
  • Indeed, at the time of Woineshet's rape, Ethiopian law explicitly provided that a man could not be prosecuted for violating a woman or girl he later married.†   (source)
  • But, as he told me explicitly, My premiums will go up now, so it's still money out of my pocket.†   (source)
  • He had been explicitly warned never to remove it.†   (source)
  • As we made conversation, she was friendly but never pushy, explicitly respectful of other people's space.†   (source)
  • "I am no friend to hereditary limited monarchy in America," Adams wrote explicitly.†   (source)
  • a further warning: some of the content therein is explicitly sexual, and is not intended for persons under the age of eighteen.†   (source)
  • The conference was a milestone, for it explicitly linked the ANC and MK.†   (source)
  • The harm, sir, is to our superiors in the organization-that was made explicitly clear to me personally.†   (source)
  • We also have a contract which explicitly gives me free rein to make the editorial changes I deem necessary.†   (source)
  • He wanted her to understand, but he did not want her to understand fully, explicitly, down to the root-since the essence of that modern language, which he had learned to speak expertly, was never to let oneself or others understand anything down to the root.†   (source)
  • I felt explicitly that secret living I'd known throughout my life, but now for the first time it took the form of a bizarre sanction being with Pete and even Wen.†   (source)
  • All authorities, except those the States explicitly relinquished to the Union, remain fully with the States.†   (source)
  • In fact, only 20 percent of my sample of 374 southern soldiers explicitly voiced these proslavery convictions in their letters and diaries.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, she thought with resignation, with mild despair, if she explained the rudimentary part of it to him now, patiently and explicitly, she would get it all over with, and if she was lucky, be spared any further inquisitiveness about more somber and complex matters which she could never describe or reveal to anyone.†   (source)
  • This is the one that gives explicit instructions on how to make a Horcrux.   (source)
  • She was resting now, seated in the dining room, with explicit instructions to remain still.   (source)
    explicit = clear
  • The message wasn't explicit; teachers didn't tell us that we were too stupid or poor to make it.   (source)
    explicit = specific (said in exact words)
  • Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • Four explicit lines that pointed without a doubt to this very spot.   (source)
    explicit = clear
  • That's the most direct and explicit way of making a point imaginable.   (source)
  • André Vernet was a dear friend of Jacques, and Jacques trusted him explicitly.   (source)
    explicitly = without any doubts
  • I think Mamaw understood what was going on in my head, even though I never told her explicitly.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • I would need to direct her explicitly to bring Nobu to the old theater; they wouldn't come upon us there purely by accident.   (source)
  • The solution, he argued, was that the church remake itself as an explicitly international congregation that reflected the diversity outside its doors.   (source)
  • After the hardcover edition of this book came out, the most common question I got at events and interviews was the question I'd explicitly avoided answering in the book itself: what made the difference between you and the other Wes Moore?   (source)
  • The next day Big Richard gave me explicit instructions to "stay off the Corner," but I snuck over there anyway and watched as Mike came by that afternoon, rumbling up in his big Buick, playing Marvin Gaye on his eight-track player.   (source)
    explicit = clear
  • When I first decided to write about the Fugees, I wasn't sure how, or even if, the story of the remaking of Clarkston and the story of a refugee soccer team there would explicitly overlap.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • He hated the light bulb's monotonous surveillance; it disturbed his sleep and, more explicitly, endangered the success of a private project-escape.   (source)
  • I was not explicit enough with him before.   (source)
    explicit = clear
  • But let it be done explicitly and positively.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • But if you are really innocent and ignorant, I must be more explicit.   (source)
    explicit = clear and detailed
  • Send back your answer as fast as you can, and be careful to write explicitly.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • He gave them extraordinary but quite explicit instructions to lay breakfast for two in the belvedere study—and then to confine themselves to the basement and ground-floor.   (source)
    explicit = clear and detailed
  • Oliver, quite elated and honoured by a sense of his importance, faithfully promised to be secret and explicit in his communications.   (source)
  • "You have an order signed by the cardinal?" said the governor.
    "Yes, monsieur," replied d'Artagnan; "here it is."
    "It is quite regular and explicit," said the governor.   (source)
  • By adding all that he heard from the mouth of the young man to his own remembrances, he was enabled to form a pretty exact idea of a position of the seriousness of which, for the rest, the queen's letter, short but explicit, gave him the clue.   (source)
  • Having once explained to them that I could not now be explicit about my plans, they kindly and wisely acquiesced in the silence with which I pursued them, according to me the privilege of free action I should under similar circumstances have accorded them.   (source)
  • He told my mother, in language perfectly respectful and deferential, but quite explicit, that over the house-servants she should be entire mistress, but that with the field-hands he could allow no interference.   (source)
  • Albert's lips scarcely whispered "Good-by," but his look was more explicit; it expressed a whole poem of restrained anger, proud disdain, and generous indignation.   (source)
  • Why, I was obliged to let him understand explicitly that I preferred to keep some of my clothes for my own personal wearing; also, I put his magnificence upon an allowance of cologne-water, and actually was so cruel as to restrict him to one dozen of my cambric handkerchiefs.   (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
  • The postscript is explicit.   (source)
    explicit = clear and detailed
  • Which the job sheet explicitly tells you not to do.†   (source)
  • Do the Articles of Confederation explicitly prohibit a peacetime military?†   (source)
  • He told some people precisely what the experiment was about and told them explicitly to avoid stereotypes based on race.†   (source)
  • I mean ....with Snapes history ...of course people were bound to wonder....but Dumbledore told me explicitly that Snape's repentance was absolutely genuine—Wouldn't hear a word against him!†   (source)
  • Airwalk tipped because its advertising was founded very explicitly on the principles of epidemic transmission.†   (source)
  • I had explicitly instructed my travel agent to choose something inexpensive, in the thirty-to-forty-dollar range.†   (source)
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explicit as in:  explicit photos and pornography

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  • The movie is rated "R" because of explicit sex scenes.
  • Though some thought it a masterpiece, Pope Urban VIII had rejected The Ecstasy of St. Teresa as too sexually explicit for the Vatican.   (source)
    explicit = expressed in a detailed manner that many would consider offensive
  • Another reason is that scenes in which sex is coded rather than explicit can work at multiple levels and sometimes be more intense than literal depictions.   (source)
  • He does not know how to say what he means, without being too explicit: Grace has a strong dash of prude in her.   (source)
    explicit = crude (unrefined in a manner that offends)
  • Overly explicit. A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.   (source)
    explicit = expressing violence in a detailed manner
  • A second later, with his chest unpuffed and the manager already escorting the mottled army man out, he joins Chiniqua near Bach and tries to regain the ease of a few minutes ago, talking about wanting to buy R. Kelly's album 12-play-a misguided conversational selection, he immediately realizes, because it's filled with explicit lyrics and sexual asides.   (source)
    explicit = expressed in a detailed manner that many would consider offensive
  • Almost inevitably, his reveries of reunion with her ended in explicit acts of love-making.   (source)
    explicit = detailed sexual activity
  • We countenance a franker view of sex than recent generations and are more explicit in discussing it.   (source)
    explicit = expressed in a detailed manner that many would consider offensive
  • Carol has helped me understand why I pushed myself into such explicit sexual behavior.   (source)
    explicit = expressed in a manner many would consider offensive
  • He had studied the graffiti on the outer walls of subway cars, noting especially the crude, sexually explicit drawings and the vulgar words that his dictionary did contain.   (source)
    explicit = expressed in a detailed manner that many would consider offensive
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  • And there was an anatomically explicit description of her first sexual experience, at sixteen, with a French boy named Henri, who had broken poor Leila's heart.   (source)
  • He stood aloof, because he wished to avoid suggesting himself as a subject for the Squire's fatherly jokes in connection with matrimony and Miss Nancy Lammeter's beauty, which were likely to become more and more explicit.   (source)
    explicit = expressing sexual activity in a detailed manner
  • Had Bernini intentionally created a work so explicit that it forced the Vatican to hide it in some out-of-the-way spot?   (source)
    explicit = expressed in a detailed manner that many would consider offensive
  • His work has plenty of mentions of sexual relations, some oblique, some explicit, and in his last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), the great forbidden reading-fruit of everyone's youth, he pushes right past the limits of censorship of his time.   (source)
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  • When her flirtations became more explicit, Walter hesitated, and then persuaded himself that no one would ever know.†   (source)
  • We wouldn't want explicit discussions....Excellent.†   (source)
  • The biggest and most powerful newspapers formed an explicit combine to back Allerton and undermine Harrison.†   (source)
  • The only explicit training we receive in BUD/S is to look out for each other—leave no one behind.†   (source)
  • It was softened and desperate with pain and on the verge of some terrible explicit emotion he would not be able to control.†   (source)
  • There's nothing else: no declarations of love, no explicit suggestions.†   (source)
  • Gorshkov didn't move, but the message was explicit: his effort to separate himself from this scandal had failed.†   (source)
  • It was easy enough to understand their mindset—the faces were that explicit.†   (source)
  • What he saw in this mind-movie was every bit as explicit as one of those grainy X-rated pictures you see at the State Theater on Congress Street.†   (source)
  • She refused in an amiable but firm manner, with the explicit argument that she had nothing to repent of.†   (source)
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  • Let me tell you something, blockhead: anyone who is stupid enough to do what you did deserves—" Eragon clasped his hands behind his back and waited as Angela informed him, in many explicit, detailed, and highly inventive terms, exactly how great a blockhead he was; what kind of ancestors he must possess to be such a monumental blockhead-she even went so far as to insinuate that one of his grandparents had mated with an Urgal-and the quite hideous punishments he ought to receive for his idiocy.†   (source)
  • The only way Peter could have made sense of that scene is if Nick had been perfectly, verbally explicit—if he had said, "Who did that painting to the left of the man and the dog?"†   (source)
  • The message was explicit: Rabban was being abandoned to his own resources here on Arrakis!†   (source)
  • It shocked her that Wendy badgered Joe to give her explicit details about his past escapades in beds and on beaches, as well as tell her his precise feelings when he first slept with her.†   (source)
  • It targets explicit memories, like your name, where you grew up, your first teacher's name, and leaves implicit memories—like how to speak or tie your shoes or ride a bicycle—untouched.†   (source)
  • In their lawsuit the women alleged that supervisors at a Monfort plant in Cactus, Texas, pressured them for dates and sex, and that male coworkers groped them, kissed them, and used animal parts in a sexually explicit manner.†   (source)
  • He gave her some money for the fare, looking at her with something, after all these months, explicit at last between them.†   (source)
  • But despite the explicit and exaggerated drawings, I can't muster any interest whatever in Mr. Big Studio Director boning the skinny would-be starlet with the horse face.†   (source)
  • "My former letters were so full and explicit as to the necessity of your marching as early as possible ...that I confess I expected you would have been sooner in motion," he said sharply.†   (source)
  • I had to be more explicit.†   (source)
  • No one shall enter without the explicit approval of our ambassador.†   (source)
  • You said the bodies were found in a sexually explicit position?†   (source)
  • Despite Seth Hubbard's rather explicit command that no other lawyer in Ford County profit from his estate, Jake was determined to find a way to channel some fees to Harry Rex.†   (source)
  • I feel better already and my next letter will be longer and more explicit.†   (source)
  • I'm here because Ira was explicit in his instructions regarding this auction, and he asked me to say a few words to all of you.†   (source)
  • Attolia's servants never provided one except at Her Majesty's explicit command, but Nahuseresh didn't choose to impede the process of the queen's revenge by sending for one.†   (source)
  • He knew Wildfire had been notified; he had seen the cable that went to all security units; it was quite explicit.†   (source)
  • The prison service regulations were explicit that each prisoner was permitted to speak only for himself.†   (source)
  • He said Panov's instructions were not only explicit but that he'd written them out and signed them and expected them to be followed to the letter.†   (source)
  • But what really interested Salander were the forty-seven folders containing close to 9,000 photographs of explicit child pornography.†   (source)
  • Oh, but surely it isn't necessary to be more explicit.†   (source)
  • These were explicit consents.†   (source)
  • We are a couple, in a way, though nothing is explicit between us.†   (source)
  • Against Pumphrey's explicit direction, he ties the mare to a hitching post, then wanders up to Deery's tavern and orders a bottle.†   (source)
  • Our own experience is explicit and decisive.†   (source)
  • A Georgia lieutenant in Longstreet's corps was a little more explicit.†   (source)
  • Screaming at Vittorio he is explicit enough about who shall not pursue Niccolo: his own bodyguard he describes to their faces as vermin, zanies, poltroons.†   (source)
  • The Acorn Contest wouldn't work although he was not explicit about why it wouldn't.†   (source)
  • Nothing that simple, that obvious, that explicit.†   (source)
  • Is it fear of ..." (I hesitate to be explicit, largely because she is so sensitive about language.)†   (source)
  • DYSART: That night, I had this very explicit dream.†   (source)
  • The man in front of her was more explicit.†   (source)
  • His look, which traveled without stopping for long anywhere, was a hurried focusing of a very tender and explicit regard.†   (source)
  • This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base—by the presence of these large, long range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction—constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas, in flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this Nation and hemisphere, the joint resolution of the 87th Congress, the Charter of the United Nations, and my own public warnings to the Soviets on September 4 and 13.†   (source)
  • His orders from Admiral Stralbo on the Kirov had been explicit about that.†   (source)
  • The man known as Casanova strikes only if his explicit commands are disobeyed.†   (source)
  • If Kyle's had not been so explicit, it might have taken me longer.†   (source)
  • Oh, I'm sure you don't want to hear me become more explicit!†   (source)
  • His instructions to me are rather explicit.†   (source)
  • In his letter to me, Seth Hubbard was explicit in his instructions.†   (source)
  • Judge Atlee had been explicit in his warnings: Do not discuss this case.†   (source)
  • Arcadio told that to Jose Arcadio Buendia and the latter tried to get more explicit informa tion, but he received only one answer: "I have found immortality."†   (source)
  • Gottlieb protested that even without an explicit calculation of wind loads, the buildings were strong enough.†   (source)
  • At first she had not even thought seriously that she was obliged to respond, but the letter was so explicit that there was no way to avoid it.†   (source)
  • The following night my agent came with his usual complaints about doing business by the light of one wretched candle and took my explicit orders for an ocean crossing.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio Buendia, however, was explicit in maintaining that the old tribe of Melquiades, who had contributed so much to the growth of the village with his age-old wisdom and his fabulous inventions, would always find the gates open.†   (source)
  • She was more explicit: the young doctor she had heard so much about in connection with the cholera epidemic seemed a pedant incapable of loving anyone but himself.†   (source)
  • All these remarks are in strict confidence, and I write in this way to urge you to be explicit and flat-footed in your wishes.†   (source)
  • Tupolev's orders were explicit, the more so since, as his zampolit had pointed out, he was a former pupil of the traitor Ramius.†   (source)
  • Then he was more explicit.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had intended to give her the seventy sheets he could recite from memory after reading them so often, but then he decided on a sober and explicit half page in which he promised only what was essential: his perfect fidelity and his everlasting love.†   (source)
  • I would prefer to report this, but our orders are explicit: Once we dive, no transmissions of any kind, for any reason.†   (source)
  • The captain had wavered, wanting to grant the request, but the political officer had intervened, pointing out that their orders were both urgent and explicit: they had to be on station as quickly as possible; to do otherwise would be "politically unsound."†   (source)
  • He had never heard the French Foreign Ministry "so frank, explicit, and decided," he stressed in a letter to Congress.†   (source)
  • So were his tennis shoes and his socks and his underwear, all of these embracing Eric's sport shirts and sandals and bathing trunks—less explicit and more somber than Yves' bikini, these last, as Eric himself was less explicit and more sombre.†   (source)
  • "I thought it my indispensable duty to my country and to Congress, to France and the Count himself, to be explicit," he would say.†   (source)
  • Sexually explicit.†   (source)
  • Although only 20 percent of the soldiers avowed explicit proslavery purposes in their letters and diaries, none at all dissented from that view.†   (source)
  • "Why, sure," he said, but his eyes narrowed, watching her suspiciously, as if he were wondering what motive prompted her to so explicit a statement.†   (source)
  • Whereas a tacit consensus united Confederate soldiers in support of "southern institutions," including slavery, a bitter and explicit disagreement about emancipation divided northern soldiers.†   (source)
  • John Marshall had said much the same thing, and so had John Quincy in some of his correspondence with his father, but as Adams was to write, the assurances of Gerry—"my own ambassador"—were "more positive, more explicit, and decisive."†   (source)
  • In February, 1865, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee threw their weight behind a measure to enroll slaves in the army—with the assumption, although not the explicit authorization, that they would be freed as a reward for such service.†   (source)
  • As the author of the Summary View, the young Virginian had, as Adams said, achieved "the reputation of a masterly pen," and however reticent in Congress, he proved "prompt, frank, explicit, and decisive upon committees and in conversation..."†   (source)
  • It was the explicit language of the first magistrate of the nation, disclosing to his fellow citizens the honest sentiments of his heart, expressing with proper feeling and sensibility the wrongs done to his injured country, and his determination to attempt to obtain redress; while at the same time it manifested humane anxiety to avert the calamities of war by temperance and negotiations.†   (source)
  • It is explicit.†   (source)
  • What was so wonderful about Leslie, among other things, was her explicit promise, her immediate assurance that through her I would be offered redemption from that single pathetic crumpling together which I had experienced and which by haphazard definition could be called sexual congress but which I knew in my secret heart had not been that at all.†   (source)
  • Her face worked and broke into strained, hardening lines, as if there had been a death-that too-explicit evidence of agony in the desire to communicate.†   (source)
  • The head of Jamey, bent there below her, seemed witless, terrifying, wonderful, almost inaccessible to her, and yet in its explicit nearness meant surely for destruction, with its clustered hot woolly hair, its intricate, glistening ears, its small brown branching streams of sweat, the bowed head holding so obviously and so fatally its ridiculous dream.†   (source)
  • Shall I be more explicit?†   (source)
  • At first she only nodded emphatically, but she was presently unable to resist the temptation to be more explicit.†   (source)
  • He had seen her move past him many times in the rapid circles of a waltz, but in accordance with her explicit instructions he had exchanged no words with her since the beginning of the evening.†   (source)
  • _ Words need not be more explicit; Gideon doth not decline the honour, but denieth their right to give it; neither doth he compliment them with invented declarations of his thanks, but in the positive style of a prophet charges them with disaffection to their proper Sovereign, the King of heaven.†   (source)
  • Evidently there are two morals, one explicit, the other implied in the story.†   (source)
  • EXPLICIT LIBER REGIS QUONDAM REGISQUE FUTURI THE BEGINNING†   (source)
  • Pity she couldn't have been a little more explicit.†   (source)
  • EXPLICIT LIBER PRIMUS Incipit Liber Secundus THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ When shall I be dead and rid Of the wrong my father did?†   (source)
  • It gave clever and explicit directions for the paying over of the money, and ended with a threat that the boy's life would pay for any treachery.†   (source)
  • And while he thinks that, we do not have to contend with the explicit repentance of a definite, fully recognised, sin, but only with his vague, though uneasy, feeling that he hasn't been doing very well lately.†   (source)
  • But his eyes were as explicit as otherwise everything was vague about this gray, yellow, and white-haired head, bent with weakness.†   (source)
  • Although it was no part of his constitutional function, Lincoln did what he could to speed this amendment toward ratification by announcing that he considered it only an explicit statement of what was already implicit in the Constitution—"I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable."†   (source)
  • Between people like ourselves, he seemed to indicate, there is no need of anything explicit: we understand each other's thoughts.†   (source)
  • Outside the undifferentiated forces roar; inside we are very private, very explicit, have a sense indeed, that it is here, in this little room, that we make whatever day of the week it may be.†   (source)
  • Even if we contrive to keep them ignorant of explicit religion, the incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry—the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon—are always blowing our whole structure away.†   (source)
  • Those are laboratories perhaps; and that a library, where I shall explore the exactitude of the Latin language, and step firmly upon the well-laid sentences, and pronounce the explicit, the sonorous hexameters of Virgil, of Lucretius; and chant with a passion that is never obscure or formless the loves of Catullus, reading from a big book, a quarto with margins.†   (source)
  • Next afternoon, hot and bright, we started out for Monterrey; trees, bushes, stones, as explicit as glare and the spice of that heat could make them.†   (source)
  • Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is explicit or before it sees its object, manifests itself as boredom or some other kind of suffering.†   (source)
  • EXPLICIT LIBER SECUNDUS Incipit Liber Tertius THE ILL-MADE KNIGHT ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ "Nay," said Sir Lancelot "...for once shamed may never be recovered."†   (source)
  • EXPLICIT LIBER TERTIUS Incipit Liber Quartus THE CANDLE IN THE WIND ~~~SECTION BREAK~~~ "He thought a little and said: 'I have found the Zoological Gardens of service to many of my patients.†   (source)
  • "All this," I said, "is exceedingly clear, and, although ingenious, still simple and explicit.†   (source)
  • 'Will you be kind enough, madam,' said Mr Dorrit, 'to be—ha—more explicit?†   (source)
  • Many of the Constitutions of the States are even less explicit.†   (source)
  • Behind this explicit resolution there lay an implicit one.†   (source)
  • Very rarely tells him anything more explicit.†   (source)
  • When an opinion is represented by a society, it necessarily assumes a more exact and explicit form.†   (source)
  • Next it was asked of him whether he knew of or suspected aught savoring of incipient trouble (meaning mutiny, tho' the explicit term was avoided) going on in any section of the ship's company.†   (source)
  • Then she made it more explicit by saying: "I am thinking of the fact that you and she used to be great friends—that she used to care immensely for what you thought of her—and that, if she takes your staying away as a sign of what you think now, I can imagine its adding a great deal to her unhappiness."†   (source)
  • The explicit and well-intended purpose of all these arrangements was apparently to show that Grandfather had now passed on forever to his authentic and true form.†   (source)
  • one myself, in the only form in which well-bred people of our kind can communicate unpleasant things to each other: by letting you understand that I know you mean to see Ellen when you are in Washington, and are perhaps going there expressly for that purpose; and that, since you are sure to see her, I wish you to do so with my full and explicit approval—and to take the opportunity of letting her know what the course of conduct you have encouraged her in is likely to lead to.†   (source)
  • Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.†   (source)
  • I thought I heard something stir inside—to be explicit, I thought I heard a sound like a chuckle—but I must have been mistaken.†   (source)
  • At this my companion did turn, but the inquiry she launched was a silent one, the effect of which was to make me more explicit.†   (source)
  • In his little phrase, albeit it presented to the mind's eye a clouded surface, there was contained, one felt, a matter so consistent, so explicit, to which the phrase gave so new, so original a force, that those who had once heard it preserved the memory of it in the treasure-chamber of their minds.†   (source)
  • My answer to that is that although it may be quite right, I consider it advantageous, if the matter is to be made perfectly clear, to give you an explicit answer.†   (source)
  • And now I must be explicit, for this that follows—unless his explanation is to be accepted—is an absolutely unaccountable thing.†   (source)
  • I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world the most bereaved and the most lovable, the appeal of whose helplessness had suddenly become only too explicit, a deep, constant ache of one's own committed heart.†   (source)
  • This is accomplished by diminishment—and we use this term to describe an illusory, or, to be quite explicit, diseased element, that is obviously pertinent here: diminishment occurs to some extent whenever a narrative makes use of hermetic magic and a temporal hyperperspective reminiscent of certain anomalous experiences of reality that imply that the senses have been transcended.†   (source)
  • The look of innocence and surprise which he received in return convinced Duncan of the necessity of being more explicit.†   (source)
  • Hall being to let, and understanding his (Mr Shepherd's) connection with the owner, he had introduced himself to him in order to make particular inquiries, and had, in the course of a pretty long conference, expressed as strong an inclination for the place as a man who knew it only by description could feel; and given Mr Shepherd, in his explicit account of himself, every proof of his being a most responsible, eligible tenant.†   (source)
  • "Miss Summerson," stammered Mr. Guppy, "I—I—beg your pardon, but in our profession—we—we—find it necessary to be explicit.†   (source)
  • It was punctilious, it was explicit, it was everything but natural—a deficiency which Lord Warburton, who, himself, had on the whole a good deal of nature, may be supposed to have perceived.†   (source)
  • The terms of the Code were explicit.†   (source)
  • 'That's explicit.†   (source)
  • For certain words of mysterious appropriateness that Mrs. Plymdale let fall about her resolution never to turn her back on her friends, convinced Mrs. Bulstrode that what had happened must be some kind of misfortune, and instead of being able to say with her native directness, "What is it that you have in your mind?" she found herself anxious to get away before she had heard anything more explicit.†   (source)
  • That Authority had furnished a very explicit answer to persons who might inquire where their social duties began, and might be inclined to take wide views as to the starting-point.†   (source)
  • The old man, in his turn, perceived the necessity of being more explicit, and of securing the slight and equivocal advantage he had already obtained.†   (source)
  • She was waiting for him, in vulgar parlance, to name the day; and so long as he was unprepared to be explicit on this point it seemed a mockery to pretend to talk about matters more abstract.†   (source)
  • Naturally as this was said, it was not said so naturally but that a kindred spirit like old Arthur Gride might have discerned a design upon the part of Ralph to lead him on to much more explicit statements and explanations than he would have volunteered, or that Ralph could in all likelihood have obtained by any other means.†   (source)
  • All this was being very accurate, and Mabel began to entertain serious doubts as to the propriety of her permitting her visitor to depart without her becoming more explicit.†   (source)
  • All was clear, expeditious, explicit.†   (source)
  • Well, Mr. Stryver, I was about to say:—it might be painful to you to find yourself mistaken, it might be painful to Doctor Manette to have the task of being explicit with you, it might be very painful to Miss Manette to have the task of being explicit with you.†   (source)
  • Her childish way was the most delicious way in the world to me, but it was necessary to be explicit, and I solemnly repeated: 'Dora, my own life, I am your ruined David!'†   (source)
  • Captain Nemo had an explicit personal interest in checking on the current condition of this giant clam.†   (source)
  • Managers promised and even engaged their theatres to us after the most explicit warnings that the play was unlicensed, and at the last moment suddenly realized that Mr Redford had their livelihoods in the hollow of his hand, and backed out.†   (source)
  • The statement is explicit as to both.†   (source)
  • "Be a little more explicit," I said.†   (source)
  • She has been very kind to me; but," she added with a certain visible eagerness of desire to be explicit, "I'm very fond of my liberty."†   (source)
  • Newman could not be drawn into any more explicit statement than a repetition of the perplexities he had already thrown out, and a confused oration, showing, How it was necessary to use the utmost caution; how the lynx-eyed Ralph had already seen him in company with his unknown correspondent; and how he had baffled the said Ralph by extreme guardedness of manner and ingenuity of speech; having prepared himself for such a contingency from the first.†   (source)
  • It is, if I am to close the painful subject by being explicit, that I have seen my child, my own child, my own daughter, coming into this College out of the public streets—smiling!†   (source)
  • She remembered, however, that on her first asking him about Madame Merle he had answered her in a manner which this lady might have thought injurious without being explicit.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, I find one critic so explicit as to the nature of his disappointment as to say candidly that "such airy talk as there is upon the matter is utterly unworthy of acceptance as being a representation of what people with blood in them think or do on such occasions."†   (source)
  • It is a point on which history has not been explicit, but the assumption is warrantable; it was in the royal raiment just mentioned that she presented herself at a little entertainment given by her aunt, Mrs. Almond.†   (source)
  • There was no judging from her face, which expressed simply the desire to be gracious in a manner which should require as little explicit recognition as possible.†   (source)
  • While I esteem, respect, nay, reverence you, almost as much as I reverence my own dear father, it is impossible that I should ever become your wife—that I—" The change in her companion's countenance was so sudden and so great, that the moment the effect of what she had uttered became visible in the face of the Pathfinder, Mabel arrested her own words, notwithstanding her strong desire to be explicit, the reluctance with which she could at any time cause pain being sufficient of itself to induce the pause.†   (source)
  • "Be explicit," said the Doctor.†   (source)
  • We will be explicit.†   (source)
  • They were very explicit.†   (source)
  • Mr. Osmond's talk was not injured by the indication of an eagerness to shine; Isabel found no difficulty in believing that a person was sincere who had so many of the signs of strong conviction—as for instance an explicit and graceful appreciation of anything that might be said on his own side of the question, said perhaps by Miss Archer in especial.†   (source)
  • He patiently awaits an explicit answer; and Jo, more baffled by his patience than by anything else, at last desperately whispers a name in his ear.†   (source)
  • It was pleasant to be treated with so much explicit politeness; it was pleasant to hear neatly turned civilities, with a flavor of wit, uttered from beneath carefully-shaped mustaches; it was pleasant to see clever Frenchwomen—they all seemed clever—turn their backs to their partners to get a good look at the strange American whom Claire de Cintre was to marry, and reward the object of the exhibition with a charming smile.†   (source)
  • Explicit the noble tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake, which is the vi.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber Octodecimus.†   (source)
  • These weighty and conflicting demands cannot be prudentially resolved because honor is fundamentally tied to a hero's identity, as is made explicit in a speech Sarpedon delivers in Book XII.†   (source)
  • With such news to communicate, and such a visit to prepare for, her departure was not to be delayed by anything in his nature to urge; and she hurried away, leaving him to the undivided consciousness of his own happy address, and her explicit encouragement.†   (source)
  • But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.†   (source)
  • Explicit the Wedding of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber xii.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber primus.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber quartus.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber xix.†   (source)
  • During this dialogue Mr Nightingale took his leave, and presently after Mrs Miller left the room, when Allworthy likewise despatched Blifil; for he imagined that Partridge when alone with him would be more explicit than before company.†   (source)
  • I have given explicit directions this year, though.†   (source)
  • It rested lightly at the moment, but the threat was explicit.†   (source)
  • For most pep rallies, the marching band's drum section is onstage, pounding out some repetitive beat, and maybe some of the bolder athletes grab a microphone and try to freestyle over it, until they get too sexually explicit or accidentally say the F —or N-word, at which point a vice principal shuts them down.†   (source)
  • But ought not a more direct and explicit provision to have been made in favor of the State courts?†   (source)
  • Explicit the noble tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake, which is the vi.†   (source)
  • Since you know so much, I will be very explicit with you.†   (source)
  • Then your lordship may be a little more explicit.†   (source)
  • Explicit the Wedding of King Arthur.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber Octodecimus.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber xii.†   (source)
  • The enlightened friends to good government in every State, have seen cause to lament the want of precise and explicit precautions in the State constitutions on this head.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber xix.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber primus.†   (source)
  • Our own is explicit and decisive.†   (source)
  • No doubt, he would observe to himself, the existing Confederation must contain the most explicit provisions against military establishments in time of peace; and a departure from this model, in a favorite point, has occasioned the discontent which appears to influence these political champions.†   (source)
  • Explicit liber quartus.†   (source)
  • I think I have been explicit enough in assuring you, that, when I see you merit my confidence, you will obtain it.†   (source)
  • She considered herself, therefore, at full liberty to reveal all she knew to the squire, which she immediately did in the most explicit terms, and without any ceremony or preface.†   (source)
  • Indeed, if this may be called a kind of dishonesty, it seems the more inexcusable, from the apparent openness and explicit sincerity of the other lady.†   (source)
  • And this consideration, perhaps it was, which prevented Captain Blifil from being more explicit with Mrs Wilkins, or from encouraging the abuse which she had bestowed on Allworthy.†   (source)
  • "You need say no more," answered Allworthy; "I will be explicit with you; I know what you lament; I have seen the young lady, and have discoursed with her concerning you.†   (source)
  • Here Jones heaved a deep sigh, and then said, "Since I perceive, madam, you really do know me, and Mr Allworthy hath thought proper to mention my name to you; and since you have been so explicit with me as to your own affairs, I will acquaint you with some more circumstances concerning myself."†   (source)
  • The two ladies being met, after very short previous ceremonials, fell to business, which was indeed almost as soon concluded as begun; for Mrs Western no sooner heard the name of Lord Fellamar than her cheeks glowed with pleasure; but when she was acquainted with the eagerness of his passion, the earnestness of his proposals, and the generosity of his offer, she declared her full satisfaction in the most explicit terms.†   (source)
  • And this jealousy Sophia seldom failed of heightening on these occasions; for he was not contented with violating her ears with the abuse of her mother, but endeavoured to force an explicit approbation of all this abuse; with which desire he never could prevail upon her by any promise or threats to comply.†   (source)
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