exegesis
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In all this exegesis, there are at least four myths and one important truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
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
Although also woefully out of print, Mayo’s 1933 exegesis is, along with James M. Cain’s essay “Paradise” and Louis Adamic’s “Laughing in the Jungle,” among the great early studies of the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
In such a widening gyre, Mounk’s calm mix of storytelling, political theory and social psychology exegesis, peppered with some charming insights, has a comforting seriousness.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
As Martin J. S. Rudwick puts it, "No geologist of any nationality whose work was taken seriously by other geologists advocated a timescale confined within the limits of a literalistic exegesis of Genesis."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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
Baseball writers whom I much respect offer learned exegeses on revolutionary batting techniques and the physics of hitting a baseball.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2017
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
Then he never spared him; criticized and sometimes quizzed—for he had great humor—his style, as well as debated and weighed his apprehendings and exegeses, shaking them heartily to test their strength.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
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