Word: explicitly
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...doubt that Espy shouldn't have taken some of the gifts. But Smaltz's critics maintain that Espy's misguided behavior hardly warranted such weighty criminal charges. At trial, Smaltz failed to show that Espy had rewarded any of his gift donors. Though the law doesn't require an explicit quid pro quo, Smaltz had to demonstrate that Espy knew the givers were trying to influence him. Smaltz didn...
...unadorned prose, however, lurks the seed of an almost unimagineably horrible tale, which Appelfeld manages to recount in completely nonjudgmental strokes. Ultimately, it's clear why Appelfeld has been called a "worthy successor to Kafka" with his surreal, yet plausible, plots. Though the legacy of the Holocaust is never explicit, The Conversion often seems a device forcing the reader to question reality, and our ability to believe (or ignore) its ramifications...
Some offenders have attempted to correct these discrepancies in the courts. However, despite their flaws, felony disenfranchisement laws are explicitly allowed under the United States Constitution. The 14th Amendment acknowledges the ability of states to restrict their suffrage "for participation in rebellion, or other crime," and the Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that "this language was intended by Congress to mean what it says." Only one exception has been found, namely disenfranchisement for a specifically racist purpose. However, felony disenfranchisement laws are ostensibly race-neutral, and unless the racial bias is explicit, the courts will not intervene...
...Madonna's got everyone chanting shantih to a disco beat. In a culture based largely on rather mundane Christian morality and imagery, people made of thoughts, eagles born from copulating trees and spontaneously appearing mountains all have the opportunity to be exploited for their "exoticism" and "Orientalism." The sexually explicit exploits of the Hindu pantheon are particularly vulnerable to such a reading--India is the culture that brought us the Kama Sutra, after...
...after taking time for recovery from shock, I replied to my antagonists with spirit. They had done me the favor of forcing me to make my reasons for calling explicit...