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The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
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The musicians have a history of reacting badly to conductors who are effusive, talkative, or prone to explication and speculation.
By including such words, even a short poem can invoke a range of emotions without resorting to explication.
The American had told me, "There is no such thing as a definitive biography," and Green seemed particularly resistant to explication.
When it comes to Lear, Uglow's disability, if there is one, is that she is such an enthusiast that her enthusiasm crowds out, a little, her urge to explication.
The two "Alice" books are more literate, intricate, and modernist than Baum's "Wonderful Wizard," and Lewis Carroll's mind, laden with mathematical lore, chess moves, semantic puzzles, and the riddles of Victorian religion, was more susceptible to explication, at least by the like-minded Gardner.
(2) A more explicit approach to explication and understanding of the causes for non-acceptance of evolution should support the often-stated goal of understanding "where students are" prior to implementing the kind of approaches frequently advocated for teaching evolution.
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Although Richard Ward tells us that More vowed to write this book during a "dangerous fit of Sickness, if it should please God to recover him from it" (Ward 2000, 335), there is every reason to suppose that, after the Immortality, More felt he had said enough about the philosophical background to his beliefs, and fully intended to turn to an explication of his faith.
Let me be clear: to explain is not to excuse; explication is not justification.
He goes on to argue "that the doctrine of necessity, according to my explication of it, is not only innocent, but even advantageous to religion and morality".
On the one hand, Bellamy takes critics to task for not using their bully pulpits (mainly, he suggests, online ones) to discuss in detail the movies that he thinks unfamiliar enough to require explication and justification.
Later poets and aestheticians often distinguished poetry from, and defined it in opposition to prose, which was generally understood as writing with a proclivity to logical explication and a linear narrative structure.
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