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The possibility that books explaining sex to kids could become far more explicit was raised after 1957, when, in Roth v. United States, the Supreme Court drew a distinction between sexual explicitness and obscenity, which meant that, if being explicit had a redeeming social value, you could be explicit.
Women's clothing pushes new boundaries of explicitness (transparent jeans and nipple-less bras are the latest trend).
These ideas were first floated in the late 1990s, but American alarm was limited because the British, notably, made it clear that the aim was to build up Europe's ability to "burden-share" with the United States.But some European leaders are now saying, with increasing explicitness , that their goal is to build the EU up to the point where it can challenge the United States.
Mr Bush rewarded Iran for helping to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan, and for shoehorning its Afghan allies into Hamid Karzai's interim government, by including Iran in his axis of evil.With increasing explicitness , Iran's resurgent conservatives are contending that Iranian co-operation with America's regional policy depends on a change in American attitudes towards Iran.
Yet both could have used a bit more explicitness on a big issue in game theory: how optimal strategies evolve over the course of a game, especially near the end.Game theory is often introduced via a game called the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Finally, its explicitness permits readers to make a relatively sharp distinction between the tasks of deciphering and interpreting.
Logographic systems achieve a comparable level of explicitness by the addition of new characters, but the ease of addition is traded off against the ease of acquisition.
In the meantime he had completed a draft of a semifictionalized memoir of Royal Air Force recruit training, The Mint (published 1955), which in its explicitness horrified Whitehall officialdom and which in his lifetime never went beyond circulation in typescript to his friends.
Notions of explicitness of representation depend on the morphophonemic structure of the language.
The ministrels manipulate the story with coarse explicitness , begging for attention in a servile way, predicting future events in the story and promising that it will be interesting and instructive, shifting scenes obtrusively, reflecting on the characters' motives with partisan prejudice.
In setting, subject, and style his Ninfa plebea--the story of a young woman's progression from the gutter to the altar--appeared still to belong to that literary period, despite its having acquired a new lexical explicitness that might not have been acceptable then.
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The primary grammatical function of "explicitness" is as a noun . It refers to the quality or state of being explicit, denoting a degree of clarity and directness in communication or representation. Ludwig's examples show its use in describing varying levels of clarity across different contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
