0 past simple and past participle of unpack --
2 to explain or examine something in order to make its meaning clearer: --
If one "unpacked" these claims, one would generally find that they relied on the kinds of processes mentioned here.
This unpacked argument, in the case of the nationalist community's discourse, is what we have in the reflexive and reflective content of the strap-line position.
The line of reasoning sounds attractive at first, but we think that it becomes rather less compelling once it is unpacked in more detail.
And what he unpacks is different in kind from what we would have unpacked if faced with the same task.
There is much to be unpacked in these constructions.
Underlying any strap-line is an unpacked argument of some kind.
His conclusion that the residual regimes will generally 'be less close socially as well as culturally' needs to be unpacked a little.
More specifically, the ways that young children initiate and engage in music are unpacked in detail.