The phrase "left implicit" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an idea that was not explicitly stated but is implied or understood. For example, "Although he didn't say it explicitly, his body language left implicit how angry he was."
As a psychotherapist, however, I'd like to make explicit an emotional dimension he left implicit.
And Mr. Sachs, in his cross-examination, inadvertently allowed the witness to make explicit what prosecutors had left implicit.
A sentence, a paragraph, once started, had to be completed; nothing was left implicit, hanging in the air.
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.
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.
Instead of a story, the film provides data, telling you what it should show, suggest or leave 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.
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.
One of the problems of a focus on digital learning environment is that it leaves implicit that a digital environment is always embedded in a physical environment.
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.
