expositional

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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

Over the course of three acts and two intermissions, the play segues seamlessly from one bit of expositional virtuosity to the next.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021

“With this movie, it was about getting past the expositional elements, getting past the metaphysics and mechanics. You don’t want the audience to get ahead of the loop.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2021

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 Barry, John D. (John Daniel)