Word: implicitly
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...unusual-girl-gets-lucky: handsome prince marries a sea creature (The Little Mermaid), handsome prince marries maiden who's been dozing for a hundred years (Sleeping Beauty), newly handsome prince marries bookworm with eccentric dad (Beauty and the Beast). Funny, though: the curtain falls at the wedding. The implicit message is that the chase is more exciting than the prize...
...interesting though unintended critique that can be taken from Joe Dirt is an implicit judgment on over-aggressive media and the popular voyeurism in TV shows today. Joe’s personal life is broadcast to millions, his burgeoning fame encourages cameras to violate any semblance of privacy. Additionally, others begin to use Joe for his newfound fame...
Ironically, Palestinians and their supporters seem to see precisely the opposite bias in the media. They claim that the terms in which the news is presented are uneven, degrading to Arabs, not harsh enough for Israel's current hawkish leadership and representative of an implicit bias against Islam in the desire to paint the conflict as a religious war. They are certainly entitled to their interpretations. Yet to discern the world media's consistent and deliberate slander against Israel, one need not interpret terminology either way: It is evident simply in what the press chooses to report and to omit...
...Entertainment Network red-carpet coverage, which I joined sometime around 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon but had apparently been in progress since about mid-January. Ultimate TV and TiVo, the fancy electronic video-recorder gadgets, advertise an inordinate amount on the E! pre-show, sending the implicit and quite accurate message that if you are spending a weekend afternoon watching, not just Joan and Melissa Rivers, not just Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner leading up to Joan and Melissa Rivers, not just Todd Newton and Cindy Hom leading up to Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner, but Michael Castner and Linda...
...doesn't generate an abundance of rooting interest in its outcome. But Spark, 83, has lost none of her skill and verve in portraying flamboyantly wicked people behaving according to "a morality devoid of ethics or civil law." Like Evelyn Waugh, she employs her characters' untroubled consciences as an implicit sign of their irredeemable awfulness. And this engaging game of rat and louse concludes with a bit of poetic justice that is ghastly and richly appropriate. --By Paul Gray