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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“It released us of this enormous expositional burden of explaining the road’s rules,” Schaeffer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
Such bubbles of longing buoy most love stories, although they're employed as sparing oases between expositional expanses.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
Perhaps the greatest sin of “Argylle,” besides dragging every expositional conversation to double length in case you were checking your texts when some vital plot point was revealed, is that it looks insanely ugly.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
The heavy-handed expositional dialogue is a fair exchange for not having a flashback to the incident that separated the siblings or to their childhood in a dysfunctional household.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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
