Sentence examples for an explicit act from inspiring English sources

To consciously pick up the phone to call the police on two black men sitting at a table doing nothing is an explicit act.

"There have been very few people who have spent time in jail for not paying taxes as an explicit act of political resistance," said Ruth Benn, coordinator of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, a campaign group that encourages federal tax boycotts in the name of peace and advises citizens on how to go about it.

The term "deprivation" indicates a culpable omission, or even an explicit act robbing someone of the possibility of being someone or doing something.

As we move into the development of algorithmic models to shape editorial decisions and curation, we need to find a sophisticated way of grappling with the biases that shape development, training sets, quality assurance, and error correction, not to mention an explicit act of "human" judgment.

Rather, you engage in a less explicit act of remembrance -- a kind of low-level arousal, Burgess speculates, in which blood flow increases to Area 10. 4. Depend on routines -- and compare new tasks with old ones.

We will obviously bake a cake for your heterosexual wedding, but only if you prove that you're straight by performing a sexually explicit act in the back room of the bakery.

When Jake takes a break to urinate, he turns his back and does so onstage, which brings to mind a more explicit act of public relief that took place in the same theater, in Adam Rapp's "Finer Noble Gases".

A funny camera angle on Gary's face during an explicit sex act makes an act of underage prostitution seem farcical.

But when a lyric spells out an explicit sexual act, it often sounds daft.

The afro was seen as an explicit revolutionary act in the early 60s: to let your hair grow naturally was to embrace your heritage and reflect black pride.

It would not be unreasonable to assume that some residual semantic trace of both the congruent event meaning and the metaphorical performative meaning could be activated at the same time, irrespective of whether the clause was used as an explicit performative act, which would contribute to the indeterminacy of process type classification.