exposition
Example Sentences
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Spencer is good company; Potts, whom I am always happy to see, is more an instrument of exposition than a full-blown character, and it feels a little unfair.
From Los Angeles Times
The book bristles with insight and originality, interspersing Vara’s more journalistic expositions with excurses and fragments curated from the author’s expansive digital life.
From Los Angeles Times
The dialogue avoids exposition, the silences say much.
From Los Angeles Times
Whether this is a flaw is up to you, but Smith’s opening narration provides the only backdrop or exposition we ever get in “Patti Smith: Dream of Life.”
From Salon
His scores, with their inherent rigor and overt religiosity, seemingly simple structure and patient exposition, conjure a world both foundational and unbound.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.