Example sentences for: explication

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

  • 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.

  • (Click to read William Saletan's explication of the debate that arose out of Kaplan's work.)

  • (Click here to read Robert Wright's explication.)

  • A history of mad-cow disease by veteran science writer Richard Rhodes ( The Making of the Atomic Bomb ). Critics praise Rhodes' lucid explication of complex virology as well as his range--the book includes digressions on political and literary themes and a section on the scandal surrounding a Nobel Prize-winning expert on the disease who recently pleaded guilty to molesting a little boy.

  • Powell needs no explication; rather, her wit makes us laugh, her characters are likely to be people we know (in their late-20 th -century incarnations), and her honesty and emotional courage can take our mutual breath away.


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