We await an explication of the roots of Muslim irony.
That, Mr. Lowenthal says, may be as good an explication of Israel's liquidation policy as any.
By then, it's clear "The Architect" isn't chiefly an explication of Rove's master plan.
Part of the book's charm is what Maxwell leaves out: an explication of his vision.
The next diner asked him for an explication of the songs on "This Is Happening," LCD Soundsystem's last album.
But she is perhaps a little too eager to squeeze in an explication of every marriage movie she's ever seen.
As the tale unfolds, each chapter is simultaneously a new episode in Jasper's complicated romance and an explication of the poem he's rendering.
Moreover, history and precedent aside, the decision in Miranda, if read as an explication of what the Constitution requires, is preposterous.
Dworkin devotes the stiffest part of "Sovereign Virtue" to an explication of the thought that the fundamental virtue of any society is equality.
Shopping with a student of sociology is, of course, not really shopping, but an explication of popular culture, feminism, Marxism and the oeuvre of Roman Polanski through fashion.
Of his many books, the best known is "Boats With an Open Mind" (1994), an explication of 75 different boat designs, written in precise, personal prose.
