explicitness

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It is unpretentious, revealing and transparent about daily life - and thankfully doesn't require a tentative editor the explicitness or rawness of the material.

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  1. The quality of being explicit; plainness of language or statement; direct expression of knowledge, views, or intention, without reserve or ambiguity; outspokenness.

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  • The Gospel, with varying degrees of explicitness, and St. Paul by inference (Acts 19:4) tell us that John pointed to “him which should come after him.” Christians, at any rate, after the Resurrection, had no doubt that this was Jesus. —  The Jesus of History
  • That is not to say that it is explicit for the sake of explicitness, but it is there to give a full, gritty look at the lives of these bloody men and those around them.
  • Because they couldn't get away with explicitness or profanity, pre-Code movies specialized in innuendo. —  Bright Lights After Dark
  • They ranged in their explicitness, but they were all remarkably well done and entertaining. —  Bostonist
  • "The Pillars of the Earth" is for mature readers in the same way X-rated movies are for mature audiences - sensationalism and sexual explicitness, not literary content.
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