Sentence examples for serious explication from inspiring English sources

He believed in the serious explication of ideas.

Each chapter is devoted to some theory of Elizabeth's, to Mr. Coetzee's affectionate mockery of the way she delivers and defends it ("she has an urge to raise her voice, wag a bony finger in his face"), and then to a serious explication of her thinking.

Instead, we saw a serious explication of his position on removing combat troops in Iraq, a position bolstered in recent days by repeated calls by the Iraqi government to remove U.S. military forces from the country by 2010.

That, Mr. Lowenthal says, may be as good an explication of Israel's liquidation policy as any.

For all that, he is also committed to the serious business of the close reading and the explication of particular poems, word by word, line by line.His chosen poems, by W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and others, are printed in full at the beginning of each chapter.

This might seem obvious, but too often the candidate will make no serious attempt to answer the question properly, launching instead into a related or unrelated tangent or long-winded explication that--it is hoped--seems like an answer but isn't.

No explication necessary.

Translation, explication, falls away.

It contained virtually no explication.

Yet most defied simple explication.

The causes of the war resist rational explication.