exegesis
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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
In such a widening gyre, Mounk’s calm mix of storytelling, political theory and social psychology exegesis, peppered with some charming insights, has a comforting seriousness.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
I am sorry, as well, to present such a sketchy and disappointing exegesis of what is in fact the central part of my story.
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
Is the Book of Esther amusing enough to warrant seven different exegeses?
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017
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
In the twentieth century, New Critics enshrined Shakespeare’s plays as complex poetic art, unified through patterns of metaphor, irony, and paradox, and generations of students were compelled to write exegeses of his linguistic richness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2015
It is a feverish ritual, the sound of clashing exegeses, of theories constructed and demolished in vacuo.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
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