Word: explicit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, the irony, though irony can never be explicit, is there: though Scobie thinks of himself as a sinner, he never realizes what his real sin is-purblind selfishness, appalling spiritual pride1. His "pity" carries him to such morally insane heights that he pities his fellow men -and women-instead of loving them; he ends by pitying...
...Collateral. The promise was both explicit and implicit in the party's platform (see below). It rang through the oratory of the opening days. It even boomed out from Keynoter Dwight Green, the governor of Illinois, who in the past had faithfully followed the "nationalist" line of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick...
Smith was acting on explicit instructions from the State Department, which had decided that Russia might be making some grievous miscalculations. Hitler's error in thinking his opponents were "worms" had plunged him into World War II. Smith's conversation with Molotov was a warning not to make the same mistake...
...cheating caused no little difficulty to the testing bureau, the faculty and the students themselves. The alleged assumption and assertion of Mr. Leonard that students will cheat was in reality a statement of undeniable fact: students have cheated before. And Mr. Leonard's instructions to the proctors were most explicit. Proctors are not to accuse or even suspect any student of dishonorable practices. In the last of instructions distributed to the proctors at the same meeting, Article 29 reads: "Tell Mr. Leonard at the first opportunity of any irregularity whatever occurring during the examination...." And it is interesting to note...
...Princess will startle readers who think of James, the expatriate, as the man who was saddened because his own U.S. had "no sovereign, no court, no aristocracy . . . nor manors, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins." It is a novel of explicit social significance, about London's anarchist workers and their starry-eyed aristocratic sympathizers. Columbia Professor Lionel Trilling, in a 15,000-word introduction to The Princess, credits James with "a first-rate rendering of literal social reality." But the reader will probably feel that for all James's intentions, his poor are specimens under-glass, people...