Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only incidentally a witness to a weak man's sins and misdeeds or even the crimes that are implicit in the practice of Communism. In so far as I am a true witness, it is because twice in my life I came, not alone, for I had my wife and children by the hand, to a dark tower, and, in a storm of the spirit, listened to that question that was both within and without me: Who, if I cried out, would hear me from among the orders of the angels...
Although a tinny sound track and home-movie photography is implicit in most foreign films, Passion For Life contains enough good, light humor so that its technical defects are not overwhelming...
...generally good. Unfortunately, one sees a little too much of them. Rashomon achieves a natural conclusion approximately ten minutes before it actually flashes off the screen. The producers kept going in order to get across a moral meaning. Mistakenly, they did not realize that this moral was already implicit and that the final ten minutes only hammered it in crookedly...
...allegorical themes are developed during the stay in the tree house, the first of which deals with Dolly's spiritual regeneration, as her imaginative mind finds itself wholly in harmony with the new environment. Implicit in this theme is the conflict of the individual in a stereotyped society, and Capote has stacked the cards heavily. In the second act Capote also develops a contrast of different kinds of love, all of which form a coherent theory until the final scene, when they become muddled in a contrived denouement...
...make the implicit assumption that the Smoker's only excuse for existence is as a "get acquainted" party. We grant that there is really no point in a freshman "get acquainted" party in the spring. But actually the Smoker is really only an opportunity for Yardlings to get together for a good time...