annotative

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The annotative YouTube chat scroll was devastating in the way that only a collection of disappointed hard-core fans can be, with posters gleefully using Sondheim lyrics to vent their frustration.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2020

They use household chores, like shucking corn, to memorably annotative effect.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2019

And they never pander or patronize with the big annotative gestures or frenzied slapstick common to the “Shakespeare is fun” school of acting.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2017

“Shuffle Along” is of course more annotative, with illustrative detours and asides that give us context for a great show of decades ago.

From New York Times • May 11, 2016

Good specimen of the "annotative" style with a parenthetic comment.

From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Dakyns, Henry Graham