Word: explicitness
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...perfectly innocent reasons of conversation or just escape from the masses and left behind a friend who makes everybody look your way before you're through the door, then you know how insidious this character is. Frankly, James wouldn't have stood for him; the sexual undertones are too explicit. No, James leaves those doors through which two people walk to the imagination of the reader. He gives you the gossip, and from there, it depends on how perverse or vivid your imagination is. Bogdanovich's is depraved: he makes Winterbourne's feeble mobility into a hypocritical desire for Daisy...
...movie is a collaboration between the director and his wife Margarethe von Trotta, who worked on the screenplay and who appears as Elisabeth, a performance of wonderfully explicit compassion. Trotta is able to seize on a well-observed moment, embellish it and build on it without ever becoming extravagant or false. Her uncommon artistry gives A Free Woman a strong and generative center. ∎ Jay Cocks
...library system, and that doesn't even cover the cost of Lamont. I could keep a set of books that would show a huge deficit for the Summer School, or I could keep a set of books showing a huge profit, but we try to pay all explicit costs, things like rent for our offices. I also try to keep summer students from being exploited with high room and board charges--it costs summer students more to eat than undergraduates during the school year, even though there's only one dining hall open for the regular summer school...
...geometric snake, slithering effortlessly upward, feet first and legs spread, over Cragun's waiting shoulders. Tetley amazingly seems to have taught his dancers how to bow their hips into trompe l'oeil convex forms. The two couples slide through a visual glissando of sexual exercises so explicit yet so subtle in execution that the intimacies never shock -except perhaps with the revelation of the extreme possibilities of what a dancer's body can be made...
...sensitive colleague asked Frank to halt his reading of the explicit passages. "There's a typical censor's mentality," quipped Frank. "The representative wants to keep all the fun for himself...