Word: implicit
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...don’t see the point of delving into ‘evidence’ of Lenny’s sexuality as is implicit in the film. Any reader who doubts the obviousness of the intended meaning of Lenny’s character should see the film immediately. It’s doubtful you’ll disagree. What Shark Tale ultimately represents, and what makes it so eminently aggravating, is Hollywood’s static view of homosexuality as something that must be hidden from the public. In a political atmosphere in which queers are increasingly gaining agency...
David A. Moss, who holds the McLean chair in business administration at Harvard, said the letter is “a critique of economic policy as it now stands and an expression of concern about where it seems to be going”—not an implicit endorsement of the Democratic platform...
...Huang's bosses in the provincial capital created their own team to investigate his allegations. But the implicit tension between growth and fighting graft was visible when the team was told to "strike a balance between the struggle against corruption and economic development," according to documents released by the city to rebut Huang's essay. In the event, the committee ruled that the case was an "economic dispute" rather than corruption and that construction should continue. After lobbying against the ruling for two years, Huang contacted the People's Daily website, which posted his essay after dispatching reporters to interview...
After criticism from the Democrats, the president was forced to backtrack, restating his earlier opinion that the US will win the war on terror. Instead of alarming many for its implicit agenda, the phrase has forcefully asserted itself to become part of our normal way of reading the world. Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry protest that Bush will never win the war on terror with his current policies, or that Kerry would be better in the war on terror. Yet the President must have already won something, if his “war?...
...effect is that the default has an implicit message that this is the recommended option,” Laibson said. “The other effect is that it is harder to unravel the default than to simply accept...