exposition

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At 95 minutes, the opera is about 15 minutes too long, laden with considerable exposition and repetition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

And in just three minutes of exposition, Hughes and Deutch nimbly convey that Molly Ringwald’s Andie Walsh is both your conventional artsy wallflower and a singularly special young woman.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

The dialogue avoids exposition, the silences say much.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

Around 2,000 people watched the action inside Bern's Festhalle exposition hall.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

Bloom told him about the rights he had acquired in Paris and how the exposition had rebuffed his petition.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson