Sentence examples for wasn't explicit from inspiring English sources

Obama wasn't explicit about why we have failed to meet these challenges.

I was too young to understand an ending that wasn't explicit (the hero has to save a corner to win the FA Cup – it's left unsaid that he does).

When the equipment worked, he sang several of his own songs and a samba — Batatinha's "Imitação" — in a clear, high and accurate voice over guitar strumming that was tonally brutish but rhythmically and gesturally precise, wickedly so, with a deep Afro-Brazilian swing even when the beat wasn't explicit.

His statement wasn't explicit, but one assumes the old "apology-if" alludes to the recent discoveries that Sufi a) incorrectly described his employment history on his application for endorsement, and published writing online that indicated b) he is against constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians and c) thinks marriage equality might lead to polygamy.

"He wasn't explicit about that - but you sense that might be a direction of travel".

But the application never took off (although you can still download it, probably because dating wasn't explicit in the offering and Nokia never fully marketed the idea, somewhat mysteriously. Other mobile startups like MeetMoi are trying to do this with the mobile network (monetised via SMS charges of course) and there is the famous Dodgeball which has not exactly panned out for Google.

In fact, the attack on Linda was implied and was not explicit".

Elliott and Hanning note that the "question of the leadership was not explicit" but that there was "much jockeying".

The study was not explicit about their impingement symptoms.

The show's makers also contended that the attack was "implied and was not explicit".

However, Heim (1982) was not explicit about exactly how accommodation should work and what should be accommodated.