expositional

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That being said, Jacir’s fourth feature — packed as it is with storylines — could stand a bit more context and fewer of the expositional traps that big-cast sagas easily fall into.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

Given the franchise’s expositional method and penchant for moral ambiguity, it’s unsettling to contemplate what that show might have looked like.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 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)