expositional
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That being said, Jacir’s fourth feature — packed as it is with storylines — could stand a bit more context and fewer of the expositional traps that big-cast sagas easily fall into.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
Perhaps the greatest sin of “Argylle,” besides dragging every expositional conversation to double length in case you were checking your texts when some vital plot point was revealed, is that it looks insanely ugly.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
The second act of Michetti’s production, when the courtroom battle is in full gear, is more gripping than the more expositional first half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
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 John D. (John Daniel) Barry
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