Sentence examples for explicit passage from inspiring English sources

All that's despite this very explicit passage in the press release announcing SoftBank's pact with Sprint: The transaction does not require Sprint to take any actions involving Clearwire Corporation other than those set forth in agreements Sprint has previously entered into with Clearwire and certain of its shareholders.

"I think that's dirty," Scapa said, gesturing at an explicit passage in the novel.

The non-profit organization posted the content of the e-mail as well as the excerpt and picture of the sexually explicit passage the parent was citing.

There was a tawdry brouhaha over the weekend about whether Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb or vice-First Lady Lynn Cheney wrote sexually explicit passages in their respective books.

However, its sexually explicit passages and political content have seen it banned on and off in various Arab countries, including his native Sudan.

Roth's explicit passages walk a fine, difficult line between darkness, humor and lust, and somehow the male hero emerges from all the comic clauses breathless, glorified.

Instead, Hassett establishes that Quinn disliked the novel's more sexually explicit passages, and was not willing to argue the case for its literary merit, one that might have succeeded in an appeals court.

The novelist Ahmed Naji is serving a two-year prison sentence for violating "public modesty" with sexually explicit passages in his experimental novel "The Use of Life". Many fear that his imprisonment will lead to more self-censorship.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World drew complaints over its "insensitivity, nudity, racism, religious viewpoint, [and] sexually explicit" passages, while Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird contains "offensive language" and "racism", according to some.

Before the trial, Lady Dorothy Byrne had read the book and marked up the sexually explicit passages for her husband.

"It is clear that the explicit passages illustrated a larger literary, artistic or political message and were not included solely to appeal to the prurient interests of minors," the prosecutor wrote.