exposition

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And in just three minutes of exposition, Hughes and Deutch nimbly convey that Molly Ringwald’s Andie Walsh is both your conventional artsy wallflower and a singularly special young woman.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

Ibsen, it turns out, doesn’t need his layers of exposition.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

After a century’s worth of Dracula pictures, the exposition seems a bit superfluous, and Mr. Waltz, a two-time Oscar winner, can’t do much with his dialogue, which sounds like guidance from “Vampire Stalking for Dummies.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Around 2,000 people watched the action inside Bern's Festhalle exposition hall.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

There he would have found Grosseteste’s brief exposition of the one-sphere theory.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton