Word: explicitly
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Cohen’s uneasy responses to this cowboy are telling, since a lot of the movie’s revelry in Muslim “backwardness” remains awkwardly below the surface. Many of the gags, in fact, are not dependent on an explicit understanding of the movie within the context of the West’s recent encounters with Islam...
...Pelosi has also found a way to make her gender a weapon in political combat. She was one of the loudest voices demanding an investigation into what G.O.P. leaders knew of the sexually explicit instant messages that Congressman Mark Foley, who has since resigned, was sending to congressional pages. While Republicans booed her on the House floor, Pelosi insisted "as a mother and a grandmother" on putting the question to a recorded vote...
...little girl’s resolve is certainly remarkable, but her motivation, given her immaturity, is still troubling. What sexuality does a five-year-old have to hide? There is obviously no universal reason women decide to veil, but most see it as a combination of fulfilling an explicit obligation to God and as a protection against the unsolicited gazes that I so vehemently loathed in Egypt this summer. Those who wear the hijab believe that in doing so, they literally wear modesty, humility, and purity on their sleeves. But the idea that any woman should have to limit...
Rove chalks up the loss to corruption, incumbent overconfidence and conservative dissatisfaction with spending. He does not read the outcome as exclusively a judgment on either Iraq or Bush. "Iraq mattered," Rove says. "But it was more frustration than it was an explicit call for withdrawal." Which is not to say the White House didn't see trouble coming. To keep the Republican National Committee from having to take out a loan, according to Republican officials, Bush chipped in $12 million of his campaign funds that otherwise would have gone to his presidential library. Looking ahead, friends say Rove...
...standards. The woman is smart and successful, she has a great job, she meets a man at work, they fall in love, then they get naked and live happily ever after. The sex scene is three pages, more than halfway through the 220-page book. Nothing is extremely explicit; it's filled with euphemisms like "her warmth" and the last line is "then he took them over...