expository

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Expository flashbacks would be antithetical to Hansen-Løve’s objectives, but here, with wordless economy, she pries open a window into past stories, past experiences.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

Expository dialogue alternates with and is sometimes interrupted by a hail of arrows, a dazzling flight of combat choreography, computer-assisted explosions or some combination of them all.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2011

Expository dialogue, repetitious action and one-dimensional characterization make The Plot feel more like a lesson than a deeply involving story.

From Time Magazine Archive

He desires to thank the Editors of the Expository Times, Church Missionary Review, Irish Church Quarterly, and London Quarterly Review for permission to include papers which have appeared in those journals.

From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Field, Claud

The footnote at the end of page 74 reads: See "The Epistles to the Thessalonians, with Notes Exegetical and Expository," by C. F. Hogg and W. E. Vine, note c. pp.

From The Roman Empire in the Light of Prophecy The Rise, Progress, and End of the Fourth World-empire by Vine, W. E.