exposition
noun
Origin of exposition
Related Words for exposition
comment, essay, elucidation, text, paper, disquisition, thesis, critique, interpretation, dissertation, story, review, discourse, theme, details, statement, commentary, exegesis, presentation, compositionExamples from the Web for exposition
Contemporary Examples of exposition
All this shows the real problem when telling the story of geniuses: exposition.
In the hands of a lessor actor, she might have even seemed like an exposition machine.
Those bored by exposition who like action and dialogue written in the present tense will eat these up.
But also somebody who could handle a mouthful of exposition and make the words understandable and compelling.
Homeland’s Tracy Letts, Writer of ‘August: Osage County,’ Says Oscar Mania Is FrustratingJason Lynch
November 5, 2013
There were 200 extras in the room, the cameras were on me, I have long speeches and a lot of exposition and stuff.
Homeland’s Tracy Letts, Writer of ‘August: Osage County,’ Says Oscar Mania Is FrustratingJason Lynch
November 5, 2013
Historical Examples of exposition
She was an exposition of the domestic resources of Horn o' the Moon.
Tiverton TalesAlice Brown
This, sir, is your exposition of the Savior's rule of right.
Slavery Ordained of GodRev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.
I said, as if I had only been waiting for her exposition of the case.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
I listened one day with much interest 117 to an exposition of the evils of salt.
Mountain MeditationsL. Lind-af-Hageby
Prussian militarists are experts in the exposition of similar theories.
Mountain MeditationsL. Lind-af-Hageby