exegesis
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Beckett’s works defy easy exegesis, but as in many of his other plays, “Endgame” presents us with stylized images of the aimless burdens of existence, the isolation that can be little eased by companionship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Eden Medina, now a professor at MIT, published “Cybernetic Revolutionaries,” a work of history that offers a deep exegesis of the project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Because he decided he wasn’t obligated to, based on his own personal exegesis of whatever rules he chose to consider that one day.
From Slate ● May 3, 2023
Round and round Poirot goes, as does the circling camerawork, before he performs the reliably satisfying triple-axel-twisty feat of exegesis in front of the suspects.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
This is all quite fascinating, but over the next six pages the paragraphs jump around between descriptions of the Cossacks’ way of war and still more exegesis of Clausewitz.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Bradford provides similarly interesting exegeses of autobiographical echoes in other Highsmith novels, but this generally valuable material gets lost in an endless parade of lovers and equally endless litany of Highsmith’s appalling personal conduct.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021
You’ll find it in Mad Men exegeses, literary criticism in the New Yorker, all sorts of movie reviews, theater criticism, and music reviews.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2015
In the twentieth century, New Critics enshrined Shakespeare’s plays as complex poetic art, unified through patterns of metaphor, irony, and paradox, and generations of students were compelled to write exegeses of his linguistic richness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2015
Perhaps acclaim of the kind he describes in “My Prizes” would smother the idiosyncrasies of his texts with bland, universalizing exegeses.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2010
Also, various paraphrases and elaborate exegeses of the words spoken to her; a great abundance of added commentary upon what she saw inwardly or outwardly.
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by George Tyrrell
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