So it might seem tempting to consign his ballets to the past — in which most of them, explicitly or implicitly, were always set.
His forte lay in giving equal emphasis to the physical facts and to the retinal power of painting in ways at once satirical and implicitly elegiac, always with a skeptical awareness of formalism and the modernist attachment to monochrome.
Expressions of religion in art and poetry (Fra Angelico, John Donne), have always implicitly done just this.
For human beings, by contrast, the validity of norms is always implicitly and potentially explicitly at issue.
Looking back, he claims that his dutiful exercises in taxonomy were misguided, writing that "naming things is always implicitly categorizing and therefore collecting them, attempting to own them".
The administration wants to argue that Congress has always implicitly allowed anti-subsidy cases against nonmarket economies — a stance that would be harder for China to challenge at the trade organization.
It's worth noting that another great contemporary logo, Apple's, sends many of the same messages but conforms to 20th-century design conventions by a) doing so implicitly and b) always looking the same.
They may be surrounded by natural splendor, but they carry their own little stage with them, always implicitly playing to an audience just on the other side of the footlights.
The 1967 lines dividing Israel from the West Bank and from Gaza once spurned by Israel's Abba Eban as "Auschwitz borders"—have always implicitly been Washington's point of departure for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Even when the context of his film characters' sufferings is not overtly religious, they are always implicitly engaged in a search for moral standards of judgment, a rigorous examination of action and motive, in terms of good and bad, right and wrong, which seems particularly appropriate to someone brought up in a strictly religious home.
