exegesis

Example Sentences

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Setting aside a specific location, Ruffin freed himself to rattle expectations of race and class without complicating his narrative with an exegesis of what he once called “the most unwieldy city in America.”

From Los Angeles Times

It isn’t easy to animate complex notions using only the standard tools of character and plot without the whole enterprise collapsing beneath the weight of exegesis.

From Washington Post

Lee’s thorough exegeses of his plays make palpable the intellectual and artistic aims that unify them.

From Washington Post

He said he thinks he might not exist as a writer if he didn’t have his audience, if he couldn’t sit down on weekday mornings and write his Wall Street exegeses directly for them.

From New York Times

Volumes of Aristotle and Machiavelli nestle close to the constitutional exegeses of Hamilton, Madison and Jay.

From Washington Post