exposition

This lets the viewer know that, though there is going to be exposition for a while, things will get crazy eventually.

“We really wanted our characters to be learned about through the exposition of their workplace environment,” Wyle says.

It takes a lot of work and exposition to get across a character this nuanced.

Each is a meticulous account of a session with a psychiatrist, volleys of “I said” and “he said” with little exposition or context save for an occasional footnote.

They are deployed for pauses and interruptions in speech; they precede bursts of exposition, neat summings-up and lengthy tangents.