explicitness

Though I am often an avoider of scary films, Eggers’ impressive command of the medium, his delicately shocking sensibility and his determination to get maximum effect with minimal explicitness has won me over.

Music industry experts have traditionally relied on large databases to analyze the lyrical and acoustic aspects of hit songs, including their tempo, explicitness and danceability.

But her comments on Sunday stood out for the explicitness of her rejection of committing to a gestational limit.

Some cruelties in wretched lives don’t need explicitness for us to grasp their impact.

It’s not that “Sam” needs more — or any — sexual explicitness; it’s just that the story gradually relinquishes its intimacy, its attention to the messy interior of a real young person’s mind.