Word: implicit
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...this time, however, the Oscar ceremonies have established a life of their own, and the question of whether they serve truth and justice is less important to television viewers than whether the big broadcast fulfills its implicit annual promise to turn into a psychological Le Mans with a few expensive, finely tuned egos successfully negotiating the twists and turns of the three-hour course while a satisfying number of the other entrants crash. There was nothing this year to equal the spectacular flame-out that Marlon Brando arranged in 1973, but a dedicated Oscar addict could pass...
...beyond what Jaworski had acquired. St. Clair complained that the committee seemed to be asking for "hundreds of thousands of documents and thousands of hours of recorded conversations covering the widest variety of subjects." He suggested that the committee "determine what is an impeachable offense" before demanding the evidence. Implicit was the likelihood that St. Clair would reject requests that did not fit his own limited interpretation of impeachable acts...
...standard of condemnation for the world that makes it a mistake. "One may know by your Kiss, that your Gin is excellent," Mr. Peachum remarks, but his less capable daughter can only explain sorrowfully that she can't stop loving her husband--and that, coupled with the wit implicit in a good production, is what carries The Beggar's Opera beyond cynicism into anger...
Neither translation hides the self-denial implicit in Svejk's pretensions to imbecility, relieved chiefly by his ability to laugh at all the people he fools, or the callousness, however humorous, that's necessary to his survival. Early in the book, for instance, he asks the wife of an arrested bartender about her husband...
Although Seth Kupferberg may be correct in his theory about Bok's idea of wanting "to extend to the Houses the sort of centralized, streamlined, standardized efficiency implicit in things like Hall's reorganization of Building and Grounds," the appointment of Professor Vorenberg as Master of Dunster House has not had the negative effect that the theory implies. The Vorenbergs have given a new vitality to the House attacking the inertia of both the students and Building and Grounds. The Master has consistently championed the cause of Dunster House itself, as well as that of the House system...