Example sentences for: explication

How can you use “explication” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For lay readers and students who are not familiar with the prevailing concepts of mainstream linguistics, stylistics, and literary analysis, Mills's Introduction provides a helpful explication of current theories and positions in these disciplines.

  • I loved the traffic story: for its winning characters (a "poet of thermodynamics" and a "Jam professor"), its clear explication of competing scientific theories, and the satisfaction of knowing that our nation's best physicists are even more annoyed by traffic than are the rest of us.

  • Greenbaum's latest effort, on the other hand, wraps an immense corpus of colloquial and formal speech up in the respectable garb of grammatical explication, leaving the reader to have learned elsewhere which of the examples should serve as a model when he invites his boss to dinner.

  • High praise for this explication of Hitler's explainers--profiles of the historians, journalists, and filmmakers who study the Führer.

  • (For a helpful explication of the other cultlike aspects of the Nation of Islam, click here.)


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