explicitness

Example Sentences

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"And that's new in its explicitness, even if it's been the direction of travel for a while."

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

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.

From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2023

Even she struggled to write well about dance: “Verbalization is apt to end in sterility, and the aesthetic experience” of actual dancing “eludes explicitness with a tantalizing facility.”

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021

There is nothing new in this merciless formulation except the explicitness of its symbols and the candor of its hatred.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin