Search Details

Word: explicitly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...therefore important to devise explicit laws that clearly define the parameters of free speech. The line must be drawn between harm-inducing speech and freedom of speech that is a necessary condition for a free and democratic society. There are many gray areas that need to be clarified and discussed (in a civil manner) before such laws are implemented...

Author: By Tal D. Ben-shachar, | Title: Freedom to Limit Freedom | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

Choi seems to deny the existence or real discrimination in academic and the workplace, pointing to affirmative action as the source of all injustice. Choi writes, "this pro-choice position on affirmative action...(would) give minority and women applicants the explicit right to waive affirmative action and to be considered instead by the same standards as anyone else." Thank goodness Choi came up with this proposal. Here I've been all this time fighting against discrimination when I should have clicked my heels three times and said just treat me like my white male counterpart, just treat me like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choi Simplisitic In His Advocacy | 11/17/1995 | See Source »

Surprisingly, his Catholic upbringing is responsible for the sexually explicit subject matter of much of his work, according to Durang. "Given my Catholic training, as well as my family... there is a tendency not to want to talk about anything controversial or psychologically upsetting," says Durang. "I think there must have been some psychological glee in going to the other side of that...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Durang on Life, Lore and Theater | 11/16/1995 | See Source »

...Almighty works in less than mysterious ways: a savage avenger to the wicked, an infinitely thoughtful deity to those who worship him, a parent capable of providing every little thing, down to hot corn bread. Christian fiction has been around as long as people have wanted stories with no explicit sex (and almost none implicit), no bad words, virtually no violence--except, of course, when God is on the warpath. But in the '90s, this tidy cottage industry has become big business dominated by evangelical Protestantism. God is firmly in control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE ALMIGHTY TO THE RESCUE | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...lyrics are mostly about sex, yet they have a literate, sometimes explicit edge; they are drawn from poetry written by Peter's aunt, Erica Jong, the feminist author. Dear Anne Sexton, for example, takes the form of letters between two women who shared the same man. It gets racy, but never formulaic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: BALANCING ACT | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

Previous | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | Next