exegesis

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

First came Joel Thompson’s “To See the Sky,” obscurely subtitled “an exegesis for orchestra.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 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

Patristic exegesis comprises all the more or less allegorical methods by which St. Augustine and other church fathers interpreted the Bible.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021

This is all quite fascinating, but over the next six pages the paragraphs jump around between descriptions of the Cossacks’ way of war and still more exegesis of Clausewitz.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

Perhaps acclaim of the kind he describes in “My Prizes” would smother the idiosyncrasies of his texts with bland, universalizing exegeses.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2010

M. Le Hir's superiority was in a great measure due to his profound knowledge of the German exegeses.

From Recollections of My Youth by Ernest Renan