expositional
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And these character details are legible but not conspicuous, letting the viewer keep their eyes on the story, rather than the trail of expositional breadcrumbs.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
“It released us of this enormous expositional burden of explaining the road’s rules,” Schaeffer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
He wore jeans and a flannel shirt; he had a couple days’ growth of beard; he had a lot of expositional dialogue.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
Over the course of three acts and two intermissions, the play segues seamlessly from one bit of expositional virtuosity to the next.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
Now his work is an ideal example of what is expositional.
From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by Barry, John D. (John Daniel)
