Sentence examples for was quite explicitly from inspiring English sources

In fact, although the lineup was quite explicitly political, there was nothing especially indignant in anyone's tone.

Obama's speech at Knox College, in central Illinois — the first in a series of economic speeches he plans to give over the next few months — was quite explicitly an attempt to look past the immediate issues facing the U.S. economy.

Thus the profile of the type of research to be funded was quite explicitly pre-determined, and potential research proposals were steered in fairly specific directions: either acquiesce or perish, as it were.

Which is, quite explicitly, where this show begins, with a remark from 1983.

"Lord Curzon [the foreign secretary] thinks there is no objection to permission being granted [to go to Russia] as long as the conditions upon which it is given are quite explicitly explained to Mr Scott, the editor of the Manchester Guardian.

For Coleridge (1817) the power of artistic creativity is, quite explicitly, "secondary imagination".

This view of reality, which in early Schelling is quite explicitly linked to Spinoza's one-substance ontology, obviously does not lead directly to any idealism whatsoever: one could just as well give it a naturalistic reading.

The speech is quite explicitly a retraction of an outlook that does not espouse these views; ordinary rhetoric moves in a very different moral, metaphysical, psychological, and epistemic world.

Interestingly, something similar to the Fregean distinction invoked by Vallicella between a mark (Merkmal) of a concept and a property (Eigenschaft) of a concept is quite explicitly made, although obviously not in the same terms, by Cajetan in his discussion of the argument in his commentary on Aquinas' text (pp. 134-143, nn. 55-56).

In short, the Fed is quite explicitly threatening workers' jobs with its rate hikes.

Nor do we want monsters and hybrids; what we want is for these things to be quite explicitly banned.