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explication

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The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

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Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection. Steven Erikson

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. Bruno Dumont

Eclectic in his use of sources, Philip Hill, Lacan for Beginners (London 1997) p. 8 Lacan has been seen as concealing his own thought behind the apparent explication of that of others. Source: Internet

His stories are often like fables, and his explication – colourfully grounded but picaresque – is admirably lucid.” Source: Internet

“Flannery…is without question an extraordinary scientist… A passionate explication of human influence on climate change and a call to action… Spellbinding… A tour de force.” Source: Internet

Indeed, Philo of Alexandria, the biblical commentator who lived in the 1st century C.E., based his detailed explication of the Torah on the Greek translation known as the Septuagint; it’s not certain that he even knew Hebrew at all. Source: Internet

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