Explicit

Now if you could but be more explicit concerning the nature of your business.

I am almost the nearest relation he has in the world, and am entitled to know all his dearest concerns.” “But you are not entitled to know mine; nor will such behaviour as this, ever induce me to be explicit.” “Let me be rightly understood.

Again Stu considered just stopping and wintering here-if he said it was the right thing to do, Tom would not question him, and they had had an explicit lesson in what happened to people who pressed their luck just yesterday.

Well, Mr. Stryver, I was about to say:—it might be painful to you to find yourself mistaken, it might be painful to Doctor Manette to have the task of being explicit with you, it might be very painful to Miss Manette to have the task of being explicit with you.

The message was explicit: Rabban was being abandoned to his own resources here on Arrakis!

All the poor lady’s papers were in order; explicit directions regarding the place of burial were given.

Here is a man who was the world’s first revolutionist, the true founder of the Socialist movement; a man whose whole being was one flame of hatred for wealth, and all that wealth stands for—for the pride of wealth, and the luxury of wealth, and the tyranny of wealth; who was himself a beggar and a tramp, a man of the people, an associate of saloon-keepers and women of the town; who again and again, in the most explicit language, denounced wealth and the holding of wealth: ‘Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth!’—‘Sell that ye have and give alms!’—‘Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of Heaven!’—‘Woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation!’—‘Verily, I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of Heaven!’ Who denounced in unmeasured terms the exploiters of his own time: ‘Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites!’—‘Woe unto you also, you lawyers!’—‘Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?’ Who drove out the business men and brokers from the temple with a whip!

In any case, it seemed to him that if Cedric had really wanted to give Harry a hand, he would have been a lot more explicit.

Albert’s lips scarcely whispered “Goodbye,” but his look was more explicit; it expressed a whole poem of restrained anger, proud disdain, and generous indignation.

The terms of the Code were explicit.

Were it not for tradition and the explicit account of them left by Sir Ferdinando, we should be unaware that these noble privies had ever existed.

The revolt had begun haphazard, on their father’s explicit orders, and the old man, too independent to take his sons into his full confidence, had not worked out with them any arrangements for prolonging it.

Mr. Utterson, sir, I’m afraid.” “Now, my good man,” said the lawyer, “be explicit.

Explicit rules are laid down by some of the Roman classical writers.

Or rather, he was squeamish when it came to blood on screen: a good zombie movie or even an explicit medical drama would leave him huddled in a corner, hyperventilating, with his hands over his eyes, muttering things like “Just tell me when it’s over.” But when it came to real blood, real pain, he simply did something about it.

“May grace, that suffers me to make confession,” Began I, “to the great centurion,1850 Cause my conceptions all to be explicit!” And I continued: “As the truthful pen, Father, of thy dear brother wrote of it,1851 Who put with thee Rome into the good way, Faith is the substance of the things we hope for,1852 And evidence of those that are not seen; And this appears to me its quiddity.”1853 Then heard I: “Very rightly thou perceivest, If well thou understandest why he placed it With substances and then with evidences.” And I thereafterward: “The things profound, That here vouchsafe to me their apparition, Unto all eyes below are so concealed, That they exist there only in belief, Upon the which is founded the high hope, And hence it takes the nature of a substance.

Almost inevitably, his reveries of reunion with her ended in explicit acts of love-making.