Word: explicitly
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...represented range from naturalism to pure abstraction and the show's dimensions-12 artists by 3 rooms by 46 pieces-are enormous. There are big, colorful chunks, symmetrical and impassive, alongside incredibly detailed works with careful touches of color and fine line. The show holds itself together with an explicit appeal to the pursuit of beauty, to its indefinable, essential meaning in art. But isn't this intuitive when we talk about art? Isn't art, in some fundamental way, about beauty that gives us pleasure, heightens our senses, or transports...
...Maybe not a version as explicit, but think about it - a lot of gangster rap music videos are minstrel shows in themselves...
...together, to be sure, with vague promises - for instance, that the U.S. "would consult" over the next two weeks over restarting the peace process - offering very little by way of satisfying President Clinton's hope that the summit could revive comprehensive peace talks. But then the price of an explicit failure at the summit would have been to escalate the conflict, so once gathered the leaders had little choice but to fudge at least some of their differences...
Recently, however, that promise of character has become more explicit. Indeed, there seems far more talk of actions that might ensue based upon the strength of a candidate's character than of prior actions that imply them. Boasting of one's character has become the sine qua non of American political campaigns, in part because the President has provided a stunning example of one with all the makings of greatness who has been undone by a fatal flaw, his character...
...committee's report stated that the nation needs to have an explicit policy goal: preventing as many HIV infections as possible with the available resources. To that end, infections need to be tracked with a better system than that which is currently used...