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explicit
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explicit1
Maths (of a function) having an equation of the form y=f(x), in which y is expressed directly in terms of x, as in y = x4 + x + z FORMULA

explicit2
the end; an indication, used esp by medieval scribes, of the end of a book, part of a manuscript, etc.


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In the struggle for ultimate possibilities of expression, her language indeed "leads toward music," as Benston would have it, as it "strives to escape from the linear, logically determined bonds of denotative speech into what the poet imagines as the spontaneities and freedoms of musical form" (416).
The resultant effect of these groupings on Tolkien's prose is a very powerful and evocative system of denotative and connotative patterning.
While the occasionally mannerist soundtrack threatens to drown all the quiet desperation with denotative musical distress signals, promising writer/director Sean Frewer wisely never permits it to linger too long.
 
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