expositional

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“It released us of this enormous expositional burden of explaining the road’s rules,” Schaeffer said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024

Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

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

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)