explicitness
Example Sentences
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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
Both Prof Singh and Mr Harry point out that unlike other rappers, Moose Wala's music lacked the sexual explicitness often associated with hip-hop and especially rap and his music never objectified or degenerated women.
From BBC • Jul. 5, 2022
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
His poise, his explicitness, the assured presentation of verifiable detail impressed Nye—though, of course, the boy was lying.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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