We had wandered through Holland, counting the windmills, studying the "explications" set forth in painfully elaborate English on its old church walls with the information for travellers that further particulars were to be obtained of the sexton, who might be found with the key "in the neighborhood No. 5." ❋ Unknown (1881)
Readers of "How to Change the World" will be treated to explications of synarchism, a dozen mentions of the Russian Narodniks, and countless digressions on justly forgotten Marxist thinkers and politicians. ❋ Michael Moynihan (2011)
Text is always an innocuous beam of pure starlight which personal experience * never* has any sort of bearing on; it merely enters through your ajna chakra and slips down slowly into your throat, from which elegant and suitably academic explications de texte flow like the finest lavender honey made by lissome elven beekeepers. ❋ Bossymarmalade (2009)
Some investigation of Bloom's work, even of secondary explications of that work (a simple Google search, perhaps) would immediately reveal that Lutz's account is a caricature of the role Bloom has come to play in current literary discourse (the aging curmudgeon) but has nothing to do with what he's actually written. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But ultimately its impressive learning and lengthy explications are, paradoxically perhaps, the very reasons I probably would not recommend the book to readers without an existing interest in these writers and this period or who would rather read the writers themselves than such an extended work of critical commentary. ❋ Unknown (2009)
These two points require explications and discussion, for they are far from self evident. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Stop inventing these idiotic explications of and excuses for his innate fuckedupedness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For a more in-depth treatment of the above song and dance, including explications of the bond math and client interactions, please click here ❋ Omer Rosen (2011)
Their explications fill me with a combination of anger and dread. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They don't watch a debate hoping to hear lengthy explications of each candidate's policies. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I am a sophomore at Virginia Wesleyan College, a graduate of the International Baccalaureate program in high school -- an intense program combining community service, theories of knowledge, and a LOT of essays, oral projects, and poetry explications. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Of course, these notes are at times nothing more than explications of the literary and philosophical references Calembour makes both at the conscious and unconscious level. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Fiction that expertly ranges from social satire to adventure yarn to lucid explications of concepts such as configuration space is rare indeed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Bristling at the term "preservationist," the Ramblers articulated their quest in manifestoes that appeared in album booklets, along with detailed song explications, always honoring the sources. ❋ Eddie Dean (2010)
He was so absolutely sure about everything, including stuff that to me seemed extrememly dubious, and let his sexual fantasies dribble into his explications of this or that artifact. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But in a meeting Monday, Kiyohiko Nishimura, Yale-trained economist, former Tokyo University professor and deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, gave one of the most lucid and useful explications of the credit crisis and its aftermath that I've heard – and I've heard a lot of them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It isn't as if the museum is ignorant of broader explications. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The following year, I found inaccurate wall cards at the Museum of Contemporary Art, out-dated signage at the Chicago History Museum, and frozen-in-time explications at the Adler Planetarium. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He [kept] trying to [impress] me with all his [fancy] explications. I didn't know explication was a word. ❋ Minikeen (2011)
[Please] explicate that to me because
[I do] not [understand]. ❋ Mend17 (2003)
The [reasons] behind the sudden [changes] seem [inexplicable]. Does anybody know how to explic them? ❋ Awmm (2020)
