31. And the program features a contrived plot synopsis instead of a standard explication of the story. 32. Others'reviews of Carnap's argument offer additional insights about the nature of explication . 33. However complex his beliefs may have been, his explication and preaching of them were not. 34. Nor has he offered any explication . 35. Producer Hamsher, a former punk music magazine editor, sees little need for explication or apologies. 36. De la Salle's explication of the current fashion scene would see us all as mad. 37. But I sat here and heard the most sorry, evasive explications and excuses for legal advice. 38. The classic opening scroll is a skimpy preamble; what we need are Talmudic volumes of explication . 39. An explication in the Carnapian sense is purely stipulative, and thus a subclass of normative definitions. 40. There are just a few obscure passages that need explication and few awkward sentences that need polishing.