explicatory

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At almost every point, the explicatory 80-minute first act and more dramatic hour-long second bend over backward to elucidate its themes.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2016

Saying that “too much” debt is undesirable and countries tend to eventually default when debt becomes too high, while true with the caveat of properly nuanced context, is hardly explicatory enough.

From Forbes • Apr. 7, 2015

The extremely explicatory conversations between Farah and Saul about the new big bad guy have been beyond dry and hard to follow.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2013

I think that’s a very powerful argument, with a lot of explicatory force.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012

It is not easy to conjecture why Shakespeare should have introduced this ludicrous scroll, which answers no one purpose, either propulsive, or explicatory, unless as a joke on etymology.

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor