exposition
noun
a large-scale public exhibition or show, as of art or manufactured products.
expositional
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a word derived from
exposition.
Example Sentences
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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
But these scenes are dramatically the thinnest, feeling more like expositional patchwork than realistic complications in the here and now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
And all of this expositional dialogue, I’d love to give it to people around me so that all of Dr. Brenner’s focus can be on finding Eleven.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
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 John D. (John Daniel) Barry
