expositional

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But these scenes are dramatically the thinnest, feeling more like expositional patchwork than realistic complications in the here and now.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2023

During the first act’s expositional recounting of Carmen’s knife fight, Sperling rushed the tempo a bit, making it difficult for the skilled singers of the MasterVoices chorus to be heard as cleanly as elsewhere.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 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

She decided to write it in the first person—unusual for epic fantasy, which often leans on the third person to accommodate expositional detours about the imagined world.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020

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)