(A complex issue remains about whether conventional rules might not be "implicit" in a practice, and so implicitly definable it terms of it; see Lewis (1969), Boghossian (1997), Horwich (2000), Hale and Wright (2000) and §4.1 below for discussion).
Remorse seemed to be implicit in a good apology, whether expressed or not.
Havel's second play, "The Memorandum" (1965), was a splendid example: burning convictions were implicit in a structure of ice-cold logic and glittering linguistic virtuosity.
The notion is implicit in "A Walk Into the Sea," Esther B. Robinson's documentary about Danny Williams, a former Harvard student who was also part of the Factory scene.
It is implicit in a memoir that shuns complaisance -- even while it draws evocative sketches of Capri and of the other "monsters," literary or otherwise who stayed there.
"It's implicit in a lot of what people write, but it's never explicit — or, at least, I haven't seen it.
One film that does a great job of revealing the mighty span of history that's implicit in a small group's westward voyage is Terrence Malick's "The New World," from 2005.
Before that, I'd kept all my enthusiasms discreetly unmentioned, though, needless to say, they were implicit in a lot of ways, if you cared to guess at them.
He added: "Violence is implicit in a lot of Mr. Artschwager's art, which may be the most intriguing thing about it, the element that gives bite to what would otherwise pass for Magrittean whimsy".
Violence is implicit in a lot of Mr. Artschwager's art, which may be the most intriguing thing about it, the element that gives bite to what would otherwise pass for Magrittean whimsy.
In his preface, he offers a superb definition of literary criticism itself, writing that its purpose is "to make what is implicit in a book finely explicit," and his opening statement about why we should read is persuasive and even moving.
