Word: implicitly
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...implicit comparison would drive many Americans to distraction. Guant?namo isn't in the same league as Kim Jong Il's gulag. But it's bad enough, and as Mahbubani points out, it has weakened the moral authority that the U.S. had at the end of the cold war. Alas, his brief chapter on what the U.S. can do about this flirts with the banal ("promote greater respect for international law"). Which means the ultimate message of the book is clear if, for Americans, depressing: in places like Guant?namo, the U.S. frittered away much of the world's trust...
...years, British mini-series from venerable fiction have been packaged in the U.S. in a series called Masterpiece Theatre. Merchant-Ivory films, exhibiting the same good breeding and measured pacing, became known as Masterpiece Cinema. The epithet was derisive, but it carried an implicit acknowledgment that the noble lineage of stiff-upper literature was now wholly in the care of the boy from Bombay, the kid from Oregon and the Polish-German lady who'd married an Indian. Merchant, Ivory and Prawer Jhabvala were like the servants who'd been bequeathed a ducal castle just as its ramparts were crumbling...
Gibney is fond of vertigo-inducing panoramic sweeps that show off his crane. Though they might be part of the mandatory artistic cinematography implicit in films of this sort, they just take up cinematic space...
...movie? How, in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, and with the dispute over Jerusalem still roiling Israeli-Palestinian tensions, do you create a film that both explains and criticizes Christian Europe's invasion and occupation of Jerusalem almost a millennium ago? Scott's implicit answer: the way a porcupine makes love. Very carefully...
...because we're in such a changing world," says Dr. Bert Pepper (no relation to the soft drink), a New York City psychiatrist. "Each of us has our favorite object of constancy. Many Americans have picked Coke." Adds Pepper: "People felt outraged and ripped off because there was an implicit and explicit contract between the Coke drinker and the company. There was unilateral abrogation of that contract when the company changed the formula...