Explicit

Examples

• Subsequent chapters will be devoted to making explicit the implications of the democratic ideas in education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But if you are really innocent and ignorant, I must be more explicit. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Miss Summerson, stammered Mr. Guppy, I--I--beg your pardon, but in our profession--we--we--find it necessary to be explicit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I must beg you to be more explicit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was not explicit enough with him before. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The visitor whom we expect on Monday---- I could not wait for her to be more explicit. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Thinking is thus equivalent to an explicit rendering of the intelligent element in our experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But you are not entitled to know mine; nor will such behaviour as this, ever induce me to be explicit. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• What is termed development is the gradual making explicit and outward of what is thus wrapped up. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Be explicit, said the Doctor. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Our further task is to extract and make explicit the idea of philosophy implicit in these considerations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He patiently awaits an explicit answer; and Jo, more baffled by his patience than by anything else, at last desperately whispers a name in his ear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You statement has been so explicit, said he at last, that you have really left me very few questions to ask. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The fact that a process takes time to mature is so obvious a fact that we rarely make it explicit. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Intentional agencies--schools--and explicit material--studies--are devised. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His propositions should be made in explicit terms, so as to be easily understood. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• By making the contrast explicit, the meaning of the conception will be brought more clearly to light. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Very rarely tells him anything more explicit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yet Miss Addams is a reformer, and sympathy without an explicit philosophy may lead to a distorted enthusiasm. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Since that which is not explicit cannot be made definite use of, something has to be found to represent it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We have now to make explicit the differences in the spirit, material, and method of education as it operates in different types of community life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We can be just as explicit, and much more interesting, by referring to the future. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is merely a more explicit statement of the way in which that consecutive arrangement occurs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Oliver, quite elated and honoured by a sense of his importance, faithfully promised to be secret and explicit in his communications. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• In addition we have an explicit fear of the hampering influence of a state-conducted and state-regulated education upon the attainment of these ideas. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Explicit rules are laid down by some of the Roman classical writers. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Three days passed, and I concluded, with secret satisfaction, that my papers had not been found sufficiently explicit. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We frame our explicit aims in terms of some alteration to be brought about. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was quite useless to press Mrs. Clements to be more explicit. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On the active hand, experience is trying--a meaning which is made explicit in the connected term experiment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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