exegesis

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

One of the inescapable conclusions that came from diving deep into the allure of originalism was the profound and uniquely American connection between theories of constitutional interpretation and methodologies of religious exegesis.

From Slate ● May 8, 2024

First came Joel Thompson’s “To See the Sky,” obscurely subtitled “an exegesis for orchestra.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

There is an exegesis on brainwashing and transcriptions of psychotherapy sessions; there are echoes and doublings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

I provided an exegesis, not as brief as it might have been, of why at the moment I found the college satisfactory for my purposes.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

The President was eager to put out the message that if people had questions he had answers—and, as the exegeses on the technical aspects of inspection regimes demonstrated, he pretty much did.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 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

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 Brown, John