expositional
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That being said, Jacir’s fourth feature — packed as it is with storylines — could stand a bit more context and fewer of the expositional traps that big-cast sagas easily fall into.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
He wore jeans and a flannel shirt; he had a couple days’ growth of beard; he had a lot of expositional dialogue.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
The heavy-handed expositional dialogue is a fair exchange for not having a flashback to the incident that separated the siblings or to their childhood in a dysfunctional household.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022
Now his work is an ideal example of what is expositional.
From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by John D. (John Daniel) Barry
