The element of blackmail (break with me and you'll never get published) wasn't quite explicit but this is a ghastly, artificial scenario.
In a telephone interview that day, Mr. Halloran said three sanitation workers, including one whom he had long known and who had worked on his election campaign, told him that the message from their supervisors was not quite so explicit.
It's the underlying diagnosis that's not quite made explicit in the title of Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein's new book, "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism".
"In terms of language about sex and violence," says Jim Steinblatt of Ascap, "the gangsta-lifestyle music is still big, but as rap music has become more mainstream, the lyrics are not quite as explicit".
Alston is not quite as explicit, but seems to agree.
Indeed, Davidson is not only quite explicit in emphasising the empirical character of a theory of meaning, but he also offers a detailed account that both explains how such a theory might be developed and specifies the nature of the evidence on which it must be based.
ONE THING I didn't make quite explicit in the post below on drugs and competition is the major reason that I find complaints about "me-too!" drugs so odd: to the extent that the drugs really are functionally identical, they tend to drive each other's prices down.
The argument about motion does not quite make it explicit that this is what he is committed to, but it is a reasonable inference: given his insistence that bodies are always at one place or another at any given time, he might well suppose that infinite divisibility of time would open up the threatening possibility of indeterminacy as to whether the change of place has taken place.
