expository

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For all of the film’s expository merit, for all of the care and efficiency Hughes exhibited in creating such wonderful and instantly lovable women, “Pretty in Pink” flubs the landing.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

The poem proceeds by image and association rather than expository logic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Plus, coming into “Dune: Prophecy” as a stone-cold uninitiate is a challenge for which the script compensates using a combination of summary via narration and a brief, expository title card.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2024

There might be a little too much description, and long, learned, expository passages coming out of the mouths of police sergeants.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Structural parallelism works not just in poetic and hortatory passages but also in ordinary expository prose.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker