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Each is accompanied by a piece of explicative literature.

His memorandum was even added as an explicative appendix.

Daddy Beckett was working toward his explicative flashpoint already.

Two unconscious states dovetail and create an explicative flashpoint.

Line drawings alternate with explicative text.

I was trying to tell you that the search for explicative laws in natural facts proceeds in a tortuous fashion.

If at that time nothing is done for us, we will take [explicative] wherever we can find it."

Explicative discourse focuses on the very means of reaching understanding - the means of (linguistic) expression.

Analytical judgments are explicative.

There are fewer aggressive dissonances and no violent climaxes, and there are scarcely any explicative markings.

This can be "applanate", "supervolute" or "explicative".

"A person came by and used an explicative and stuck his finger in our face," said Deb Etcheson, an alternate delegate from Iowa.

As an explicative term, hybridity became a useful tool in forming a fearful discourse of racial mixing that arose toward the end of the 18th Century.

Une étude explicative des mécanismes transformationnels'.

Unfortunately, where Baumann deals his deathblows in an eye blink, Mr. Finder often telegraphs his punches with a lot of explicative windmilling.

A year later he became the first profiler in the area of what was then Serbia and Montenegro, being qualified for both descriptive and explicative analysis of human behaviour.

Pollack often produces an imaginative turn of phrase to redeem a thicket of explicative prose, but not often enough in this section, I fear, to keep all general readers hooked.

"Ex cathedra" refers to the explicative authority, notably the extremely rarely used procedure required for a papal declaration to be 'infallible' under Roman Catholic Canon law.

Crimean snowdrop, Galanthus plicatus, 30 cm tall, flowering January/March, white flowers, with broad leaves folded back at the edges (explicative vernation)

'De metaphysicæ defensivæ natura secundum doctrinam aristotelico-thomisticam' (On the nature of explicative metaphysics according to Aristotelico-Thomistic teaching; 1927)

On this web site, "The typical form of MMN is represented by menus composed of unrevealing icons that are replaced with explicative text only when the mouse cursor hovers over them".

Mr. Jaffe's recitation is a triumph of memorization and articulation, but it isn't particularly enlightening or explicative, and as a result it feels as if the show is intended, rather smugly, for credentialed Becketteers.

So that a translation does not betray its original source, amongst other things and to the extent it is possible, it should avoid being explicative, it ought to maintain the ambiguity and the obscure passages just as they are found in the source text.

Notice explicative suivie d'un trait figuratif indiquant les noms de tous les personnages, leur naissance, leur mort, etc., Paris, Goupil, Paris, 1857.

To address media speculation about her marriage, Johnson gave an explicative laden interview May of 2012, where she expressed her son was afraid his father was going to prison over the affair, and that her house had been on the market for several months prior to the scandal.

The questions are not moral but explicatory.

It also includes numerous appendices presenting many rituals and explicatory papers.

Morrison is not the first to give the play an explicatory context; but in so doing deprives it of charm.

She folded the sweatshirt neatly and left it on the priest's desk with a short explicatory note.

Apart from the explicatory glosses, the jurists wrote summae, or general and epitomized surveys of the whole field.

Eliot traces the line further back into primitive prehistory by an explicatory aligning of his protagonist and a putative ancestor, the Cyclops, who devoured Odysseus's comrades.

The Hollow Man gives an explicatory recipe for crime writers: Chapter 17 of the book consists of a theoretical digression entitled "The Locked-Room Lecture".

But exactly why on earth the reviewer wants to conflate the explicatory powers of science with totalitarianism - the true target of the "Orwellian" side of this film - is beyond me.

From years of broadcast reporting on science, Mr. Flatow has gone on to this book, a collection of brief explicatory forays into the world of the everyday (plus a little bit of astronomy).

What to a Russian reader may be an obvious laugh is often, to an American, a baffling inside joke; and Mr. Aksyonov sometimes seems to compensate for this double context by a harsh exaggeration of emotion, or by rather strained, jocularly explicatory authorial intrusions.