"leave implicit" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You may use it to refer to something that is intentionally not overtly expressed. For example, "The speaker left his opinion of the matter implicit."
Instead of a story, the film provides data, telling you what it should show, suggest or leave implicit.
In a paper published last year Andrew Davidson, an anaesthetist at the Royal Children's Hospital in Victoria, Australia, warned that although drugs such as midazolam can make it harder to form conscious memories, they can leave implicit memories intact.
One way to class these strategies is in terms of those that purport to change the apparent associations underlying agents' implicit attitudes, compared with those that purport to leave implicit associations intact but enable agents to control the effects of those attitudes on judgment and behavior (Stewart & Payne 2008; Mendoza et al. 2010; Lai et al. 2013).
As a psychotherapist, however, I'd like to make explicit an emotional dimension he left implicit.
A sentence, a paragraph, once started, had to be completed; nothing was left implicit, hanging in the air.
And Mr. Sachs, in his cross-examination, inadvertently allowed the witness to make explicit what prosecutors had left implicit.
Instead, the movie replicates the purity of the court case, any thornier issues — including parallels with the fight for gay marriage, which Mildred Loving came to support — left implicit.
Re "The Battle for Washington Square" (Nov. 23), about local residents' criticism of the redesign of Washington Square Park: There is a motive that the article leaves implicit.
But Anna Mackmin's very good production is marred by the tendency of Brian Friel's new version to spell out things Ibsen left implicit.
The rationale of many reworkings of classic novels has indeed been to make more explicit what authors in the past left implicit, not only in romance but in politics and economics as well.
This production leaves implicit the specific historical parallels (between the take-over of Cicero and the Anschluss of 1938, say), which is good because the point of the play is that a Hitler can arise at any time and, in the earliest stages, be resisted.
