The statement came through with the immediacy of an explicit message.
They are the most dreaded words of any training camp, an explicit message that the player will be released.
He considered the moral message too explicit, to the point of appearing forced.
She didn't feel secure about leaving a more explicit message.
The court said a rape shield law should not have been used to bar explicit e-mail messages she wrote to him before they met.
"He left a very explicit message for us," Flanagan went on.
However, some educators have protested the lack of an explicit moral message in her children's books.
An explicit message is that time will change everything.
The threat can have a form of an explicit or implicit message.