expositional
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And these character details are legible but not conspicuous, letting the viewer keep their eyes on the story, rather than the trail of expositional breadcrumbs.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
The heavy-handed expositional dialogue is a fair exchange for not having a flashback to the incident that separated the siblings or to their childhood in a dysfunctional household.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022
But because so much of the trilogy is dedicated to expositional scenes laying down the foundations of Shadyside’s history, there’s too much that’s admirable in theory and flat on screen.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 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)
