exegesis

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By turns comical and deeply affecting, “The Golden Boy” is heavy on back story, family history, Canadian history and geography, and on what Aristotle and friends would call exegesis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Compactness is a hallmark of her writing, made possible by both hard graft and her gifts for exposition and exegesis, which enabled her to digest and repackage huge quantities of material.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2024

Because he decided he wasn’t obligated to, based on his own personal exegesis of whatever rules he chose to consider that one day.

From Slate • May 3, 2023

Round and round Poirot goes, as does the circling camerawork, before he performs the reliably satisfying triple-axel-twisty feat of exegesis in front of the suspects.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

As Martin J. S. Rudwick puts it, "No geologist of any nationality whose work was taken seriously by other geologists advocated a timescale confined within the limits of a literalistic exegesis of Genesis."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson