The phrase "as explicit as a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the clarity or directness of something to a well-known standard or example.
Example: "The instructions were as explicit as a recipe, leaving no room for confusion."
Alternatives: "as clear as a" or "as straightforward as a".
The iconography, to those who know it, is as explicit as a dictionary definition.
The experiences of Aparicio's maidservant character Cleo do not take her on anything as explicit as a personal "journey", but something more mysterious and internalised.
(Note: the sex in "Sexual Healing" is as explicit as a porn-shop display for women. Every erogenous zone is nibbled and all body parts generously described. There's a whole lot of oral and some anal sex, a minimum of the missionary positioned. There's group sex, girl sex, sex with tall triplets, a transsexual epiphany... it goes on).
There is a vague hint that there is something these couples do that produces children which, when humans do it too, seems to involve a walk in the fresh air, a kiss near a haystack, followed by a meeting with an estate agent at which she says: "Then the lino will be laid free?" And her husband says: "And I only have to pay £10?" That was as explicit as a film could be, in our grandparents' day.
Songs that feel filthy and romantic, gentle and mischievous, coy and then as explicit as a shirt unbuttoned to the chest hair, fluctuating between all of these, within an album, within a song, within a line.
When David Dinsmore took over as editor of the Sun almost 18 months ago, he defended page 3 by arguing that it wasn't as explicit as an art exhibition in the British Museum.
Stage a play as explicit as "Showing Out," a new work at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and you had better make sure you have something enlightening or unexpected to say.
In few games is the link as explicit as in buzkashi, an Afghan version of polo in which horsemen contest possession of the headless carcass of a goat.
SEX One scene in Central Park is about as explicit as sex gets in an R-rated film, and there other sexual situations and some nudity.
We tried to be as explicit as possible to allow an evaluation of the measures we included.
While few firms have been as explicit as the Organising Committee in stating a shared-value mission, most can nonetheless learn from the multiyear process used to devise the Games' pricing.
