How To Use Exposition In A Sentence

  • Viewers are excused the demanding task of following the logic of a Horizon exposition; the important thing is to marvel.
  • Viewers are excused the demanding task of following the logic of a Horizon exposition; the important thing is to marvel.
  • The full exposition of his constitutionalism, presented in and around his analysis of the English constitution in book 11, develops these seeds.
  • The result: a spare, jagged, supremely efficient novel (183 pages) that, although utterly lacking in exposition, lays bare an entire world of workaday lowlifes trying to get by on the fringes of organized crime. New Fiction
  • All Vedantic expositions are commentaries by various Acharyas on the Vedanta sutras.
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  • The change of attitude towards alternating current was certainly helped by the Westinghouse exhibit at the Columbian Exposition that year.
  • Among the things to which special and continued attention had to be given by the legation was the Chicago Exposition. [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White
  • A simple method is introduced to prove the third law of thermodynamics and the statistical exposition has been given for it.
  • He never merely asserts: every paragraph bristles with footnotes and quiet exposition.
  • In 1709 he issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, followed in the next year by The Principles of Human Knowledge, the main exposition of his immaterialism.
  • Ancient Galenic expositions of the body's humoral composition, and attendant physical fluctuations, further complicated a woman's position.
  • Milton's admirable economy in working this truth into his great poem (i. 378) affords a sublime exposition of the mind of the Fathers on the origin of mythologies.] [1774] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • C'est une exposition spectaculaire de musique, ne peut pas attendre de voir plus de vous! Monogrenade - Ce Soir (HD) on Vimeo
  • During his stay in the country, Ma is scheduled to attend an international celadon exposition and visit facilities for garbage disposal, the spokesman said.
  • This is consequently developed in the remainder of the exposition section and in the development where, aided by the tempo marking, it has evolved into a tremolando.
  • And relocating residents and businesses is a much more significant issue for Shanghai Expo 2010 than for previous expositions.
  • In scope and breadth it rivals the Jupiter Symphony, especially as it embraces the sequence of affects -- risoluto, espessivo, dolce and Scherzino --- in turn and develops each of its several expositional motifs. Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • The signature brow beating and bleating dirges still abound, but there's an increased focus on songwriting rather than the moping first-person exposition that typified their first few records.
  • It's not bad exposition, and it's enthralling in a ‘listening to the stories of an old school friend you've met at the pub’ kind of way.
  • Again, exposition; but a key thing to consider: the Greek concept of miasma is at play here. More on Prologues
  • It's not bad exposition, and it's enthralling in a ‘listening to the stories of an old school friend you've met at the pub’ kind of way.
  • Offer a clear, plain exposition of the charge given by Jesus: go - evangelize - teach.
  • He then embarked upon a legal career which was characterised by often brilliant legal exposition, and mercurial temperament.
  • His slo-mo exposition seemed all the more excruciating after a day of fast-moving 10-minute presentations.
  • Wheatstone also displayed his Cryptograph at the Paris Exposition of 1867.
  • These range from evangelistic sermons to in-depth expositions of various parts of Scripture.
  • Meanwhile, all available characters have been called upon to repeat bits of exposition over and over.
  • The exhibition itself comprised a well-stocked tour of Art Deco objets from the Paris exposition des arts decoratifs in 1925 onwards - it features some incredible pieces.
  • Miss Julie C. Gauthier had on exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition, a full-length portrait, true to life, of a colored man, "Pony," a veteran wood-sawer of History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)
  • Long monologues of exposition in the first scene contribute to a static quality which dogs the play throughout. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The essayists are not all British but all of their expositions are measured, well stated summations of a middling to moderately conservative treatment of Paul.
  • Adam's Mini Rant: What's with the overly expositional opening credits sequences this year? Mega Buzz: A New Office Relationship, a Glee Showdown and a Dexter Death
  • Once one realizes that we can appeal to connotation theory, and more generally the theory of exposition, without invoking new entities, the door is opened to applying mathematical analyses (all of which are exponible, for Ockham) to all kinds of things, and in particular to physical nature. William of Ockham
  • People pricked by errant needles can get specialized treatment at the Post Exposition Centre of the St-Luc Hospital.
  • It purports to be an exposition of Catholic social teaching.
  • Sometimes after the exposition the composer creates excitement by bringing the entries of the subject nearer to each other so that they overlap.
  • The project stemmed from a critical look at the tradition of heroic, nationalistic exposition architecture.
  • Similar to the inaugural event in Beijing two years ago, the exposition in Shanghai also featured a wide range of exhibitions on world soccer.
  • The exposition was a hit and so were the elaborate plaster ornamentation, wrought-iron grills and tile roofs.
  • There's only so much space for awkward dialogue and clumsy exposition when you have to cram a movie full of fight scenes.
  • Simply, critical ethnography relies for its own frameworks of analysis and exposition on the reflexive maps and indeed crypto-ethnography of its subjects to a greater degree than ever before.
  • The trite maxim, * A place for everything, and everything in its place*, so commends itself to the sense of fitness, as hardly to need exposition or enforcement; yet while no maxim is more generally admitted, scarce any is so frequently violated in practice. A Manual of Moral Philosophy
  • She mounts a scholarly exposition of the widely held doctrines of Trinity, original sin, and divinity of Christ, relegating them to later accretions in history.
  • Even there, though, he has included scenes of shameless exposition and eye-glazing high-finance talk.
  • It had been part of his plan to stun and confuse Ravenswood's ideas, by a complicated and technical statement of the matters which had been in debate betwixt their families, justly thinking that it would be difficult for a youth of his age to follow the expositions of a practical lawyer, concerning actions of compt and reckoning, and of multiplepoindings, and adjudications and wadsets, proper and improper, and poindings of the ground, and declarations of the expiry of the legal. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • The judge commended not only his elegant and thorough analysis but also his lucid exposition of the work.
  • Pursuivant, to the Bishop of Albertstown, to the Lord Chancellor, with an exposition of the wicked injustice and hardness of heart of lawyers, and the inexpedience of taking the poor child from her earliest motherly friend, expressly chosen by her father. Modern Broods
  • They will be bored by the exposition, disinterested in "geeky" rationalisation, by diagrams and equations and dates and places laid out in tiresome detail. Archive 2006-07-01
  • This is an attractively written systematic exposition of the basic probabilistic methods of congestion theory.
  • But these are unavoidable aspects of a comprehensive exposition of any subject.
  • The idea of a philosophical exposition of the human passions was by no means new.
  • He held his vast audience captive by his thought-provoking exposition of the holy text.
  • On a sweltering afternoon 110 years ago today, President William McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Scott Miller: The McKinley Assassination and Terrorism Today
  • They did not take to literature and science, because these pursuits require severe work and more or less of a strong bias, for a thorough exposition of their profound penetralia. Black and White
  • His youthful studies, which I have said before were pursued with unconquerable energy, embraced grammar, poetry, rhetoric, history, and the exposition of the Holy Scriptures; the Bible, indeed, he read unceasingly, and drew from it much of the vital truth with which it is inspired; but he perhaps too much tainted it with traditional interpretation and patristical logic. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
  • Several expositional scenes are played out not with actors, but instead with text boxes and silhouette portraits of the characters, as we would see in an adventure game.
  • Tiffany assured himself a global reputation by displaying his products at international expositions, where they were widely acclaimed and rewarded with medals.
  • The book is a melange of logical exposition, poetic irruptions, and travel on a road with many detours and roadside attractions.
  • His measured, lyrical exposition of the movement's second theme seemed to touch the very soul of the music.
  • The Freytag Pyramid In Freytag-ese, Die Hard unfolds thusly: NYC cop John McClane arrives in LA to reunite with his estranged wife, Holly (exposition), but terrorists raid her office tower, taking everyone hostage except McClane (inciting incident), who escapes unseen and starts picking off the goons (rising action). Scott Brown on Why Hollywood Needs a New Model for Storytelling
  • But in the minor 'dogmata', in modes of exposition, and the vehicles of faith and reason to the understandings, imaginations, and affections of men, the churches may differ, and in this difference supply one object for charity to exercise itself on by mutual forbearance. Literary Remains, Volume 2
  • The International Technical Fair is the largest exposition held in Bulgaria.
  • Hummel's paring down of Mozart's work lays bare the exposition and development of themes with absolute clarity.
  • The distinctions of idea referred to are such as these; which any one will see to be legitimated Conceptions legitimated. in the exposition now traced — legitimated, that is, as conceptions, though not established as existing facts. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
  • In the end, the sales of stereographs were meager, and the vast majority of people who saw O'Sullivan's photographs from the survey saw them at public expositions, often as full-plate prints rather than stereographs.
  • Because I learned at the Exposition that the word 'argent' means money in every language in Europe; and this word they constantly used in their conversation. File No. 113
  • Yeah, that was one of my favorite scenes too, which could have been just really expositional, but those two guys found a way to turn it into something. Jay Roach, Steve Carell Pair Up For 'Schmucks'
  • What originates in Stu's ruminations becomes just another form of exposition. Realism in Fiction
  • Instead, he and his wife squatted in an abandoned opera house that had been used by artists preparing work for the exposition.
  • Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, "so all atonements ever made were only effectual by His blood" [Bishop Pearson, Exposition of the Creed]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • As I compare my evolutionary account of Original Sin with the catechism's exposition, I see a fairly good fit.
  • At the top of the entry stairs stands a massive gilt astronomer's clock made by the great French horologer Detouche for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1855. The Journe Identity
  • Yes, a good portion of the exposition is anecdotal, but he embeds it in a convincing statistical, comparative framework. Matthew Yglesias » It’s a Mystery!
  • She says, addressing Miriam, “Rest assured, you're at the top of the tree of lace knitters now: and that attention to detail over grafting puts you ahead of me, as I get quite devil-may-care over these, having come from such long exposition to in-your-face baddish joins.” Archive 2009-05-01
  • It comes across as a sort of gee whiz science museum exposition, one that proposes that the solutions to many of the world's problems are not only within our grasp, but that their solution is inevitable.
  • The prophecies of the Bible are not vague general denunciations of natural decline and extinction to all the nations of the world, which, if they were merely the exposition of a universal _natural_ law of national death, they would be; nor yet the application of any such natural and inevitable law to some particular nation, denouncing its destruction, without any specification of time, manner, instrument, or cause of its infliction. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
  • Yet while the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage was marked by the extraordinary Columbian Exposition in Chicago, its 500th anniversary was observed with a kind of shamefaced silence. A Forgotten Explorateur
  • While the box itself served to illustrate the characteristics of the timber, the interior was reserved for an exposition of the whole natural history of the plant … a complete seedling is included to one side, with its roots, seminal capsule and first pair of leaves. A
  • It may well be defensible, but it does not receive anything like an adequate exposition, never mind defence, here.
  • Its provocative themes were smothered by a talky libretto that alternated between earnest exposition and sitcom jokes, set in smoothly tonal, insipid musical language.
  • Stylistic borrowings from the exposition's classical columns, bold statuary, and reflective sheets of water soon found their way into new American gardens.
  • Pearls and pearl products will be on display at the exposition, which will be open to public though it specifically targets pearl dealers and jewellery houses.
  • Dundes is to be congratulated on his choice of essayists and on his clear exposition of their key ideas placed in an illuminating historical and autobiographical context.
  • This is a great passage on the reading and exposition of the Scriptures. Christianity Today
  • Council of Trent, which is an authoritative exposition of Romanist theology, we read that the "identical body" shall be restored, though "without deformities or superfluities;" restored that "as it was a partner in the man's deeds, so it may be a partner in his punishments. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • This opening-exposition orgy obfuscates rather than edifies. My Year of Flops
  • Eurosatory 2002, one of the world's largest defense expositions, held in Paris in June, was a great success.
  • The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and addeth, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified;’ that is, according to our last exposition of the word ‘called,’ he hath purposed or decreed to justify, — to wit, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • This landmark fair was the first of the international expositions held in the United States to integrate the decorative arts with the fine arts objects on view.
  • J'avais découvert cet effet de flick d'exposition un peu au hasard, en réflechissant sur des effets plus réalistes à donner. Inanis Aedes on Vimeo
  • Fresh from the Siberian tundra, an 18,000-year-old frozen woolly mammoth is on display at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan.
  • I almost left this one off, because in actuality, this montage is all exposition and almost no action. Top 10 Movie Montages » Scene-Stealers
  • According to the organisers, no untoward incident happened during the five-day exposition.
  • The city of indulgence and excess will be this summer's location for the largest annual scientific forum and food technology exposition.
  • Ellipses must not be used to omit relevant material; interpolations must be aids to clarity of exposition and not editorial devices; passages must not be shorn of context that would alter their meaning.
  • Russell and Emerson kept trying to interrupt my orderly exposition, but I was in no mood for displays of masculine illogic. LORD OF THE SILENT
  • This exposition gives an account of the outline of doctrine from which our summary statement and articles are drawn.
  • He gave a more lucid exposition of the party's strategy than Bush has managed in months of obfuscation.
  • Tablet which, however misconstrued at first as an exposition of the science of divination, was later recognized to have unravelled, on the one hand, the mystery of the Musta_gh_á_th_, and to have abstrusely alluded, on the other, to the nineteen years which must needs elapse between the God Passes By
  • This is not a matter of giving a semi-popular exposition of the latest theories.
  • Giovanni paused at this point, apparently realizing that spite was curdling somewhat the detached purity of his exposition. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • Russell and Emerson kept trying to interrupt my orderly exposition, but I was in no mood for displays of masculine illogic. LORD OF THE SILENT
  • The exposition contains a first theme in two parts, transition, two secondary themes, and a 19-bar closing section.
  • He presented core themes of his philosophy in the form of an exposition of occulted truths contained in the first book of Genesis.
  • Rejected by the Universal Exposition of 1867, he set up a separate exhibition in a private pavilion, next to Courbet's.
  • The second forceful exposition of the way of Jesus, the so-called Passion prediction at 9: 33, is also not understood by the disciples.
  • He was a singularly modest man with a passion for accuracy and a gift for the lucid exposition of difficult and abstruse problems.
  • Note 3: Rapport sur l'indigo par M. Champeax, 9 May 1788, AdS pochette; Centre de la Vieille Charité, Sublime indigo: Ouvrage réalisé à l'occasion de l'exposition Sublime indigo, ... 22 mars – 31 mai 1987 (Marseille, 1987). back The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • With more immediate reference to the exposition herewith submitted, it is enough to intimate that it is neither a compend of criticism, nor merely a series of sermons. The Parables of Our Lord
  • You know how we decided that exposition is what keeps everything from happening all at once? Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • The symphony is played tautly; the introduction is broad and menacing, but the first movement proper (no exposition repeat) is done with grim fire.
  • The trailer had me riveted from the opening, the way in which it just threw away any pretense to add in dialogue or exposition or, for that matter, an explanation of the movie as it just sticks to the fun parts of a Fugitive meets Rambo kind of movie. This Week In Trailers: The Secret In Their Eyes (El Secreto De Sus Ojos), American: The Bill Hicks Story, The Square, Jake, Kajínek | /Film
  • Mr.P. Cunliffe Owen, familiar with all the minutiæ of previous expositions, declares them supreme "in thoroughness of plan and energy of construction" -- a judgment designed to coyer the whole conception and administration of the exhibition, and one which, coming from a disinterested and competent foreign observer, may be cited as an amply expressive tribute to the zeal and fidelity of those in control. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
  • The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and addeth, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified;’ that is, according to our last exposition of the word ‘called,’ he hath purposed or decreed to justify, — to wit, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • Little, a history professor, is good at chronological exposition and boasts a hefty bibliography.
  • (Teachers College Press, 1975), which is not familiar to me, has provided not only a study that is revealing but a readable introduction for any who are interested in how style can be analyzed: I have not seen such a clear exposition of polysyndeton, asyndeton, and other rhetorical devices since reading Barr's Introduction to my textbook copy of The Orations of Cicero (where all the examples are, of course, in Latin). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4
  • The Ministry of Industry and Trade organises one of the biggest country expositions to meet the interest of Czech exporters.
  • The effects of man's exposition to these laws may vary between pleasure and pain, comfort and affliction, happiness and misery.
  • These reviews remain the most comprehensible expositions of the essential elements of regulation.
  • She was always at work, unresting, unhasting, and, although weary and worn with the interminable delay, neither she nor any member of the committee left any honorable means untried in order to secure what was so vitally necessary to the very existence of this board during the exposition. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
  • Cortius, "glossae MSS. exponunt _ex utrâque parte pontis," and there is little doubt that the exposition is correct. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
  • (If you want to know how bad it's gotten, the term exposition is no longer sufficient. Miami New Times | Complete Issue
  • A strong argument may also be made that the pandectist jurisprudence of Continental Europe presents an example of the use of doctrinal expositions as primary sources of law.
  • They rake in the coin accruing from the exposition. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
  • Modern usage, at any rate so far as the English language is concerned, has limited both terms to vessels intended for the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, and it is in this sense only that we use ostensorium here. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • Making no further reference to the child, he sat listening by turns to a prolonged exposition of his sister's views on the management of children, and to the continued wailings which floated down from the room above, until, at length, as a more piteous cry than all frantically voiced his own name, "faver," his self-restraint gave way, and he rose hastily and went upstairs. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
  • Each of its four movements really just states a group of ideas - exposition without development.
  • Unable to obtain the exact figures denoting the number of exhibitors of the Columbian Exposition from any authentical source of information, I introduced into the above table the number of 50,000, mentioned in a newspaper, and therefore not absolutely reliable. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
  • Horticultural Hall was the largest structure built for the exposition, which heightened public awareness about landscaping open urban spaces.
  • What unfolds is a remarkable exposition of how the author developed her listening skills from attending to children with terminal illnesses.
  • In the past 25 years, traditional modes of exposition have continued to exist alongside sometimes mutually exclusive competing theories.
  • The point to which we wish particularly to direct attention in connexion with this exposition of the phænomena attending the transmission of a storm is this: -- If the observer so place himself at the commencement that the wind passes _from his left hand towards his right_, his face will be directed towards the centre of the storm; and the wind undergoing no change in direction, but only in force, will acquaint him with this important fact that the _centre_ is not only gradually but surely approaching him: in other words, in the case before us, when he finds the wind from the S.E., and he places himself with his face to the The Hurricane Guide Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving Storm With Atmospheric Waves.
  • Also: The dialogue can be, much like the opening credits sequence, annoyingly expositional. Fall TV Report Card: How Is the New Class Doing?
  • The first edition of the Critique contained a lengthy exposition of the theory of transcendental idealism.
  • The exposition Precious Stones contains about 1,500 exhibits.
  • Whether these are such as to bear the weight of this exposition, is that which cometh nextly to be discussed; namely, the causes of this state and condition of those who are thus born of The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • However, be there this distinction betwixt them, or some other, or indeed none at all, yet I presume they were both doctors of traditions, and expounders of that which they called the oral law, in opposition to the scribes, whether amongst the Jews or the Sadducees, who employed themselves in the textual exposition of the law. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • This occurs when the two bhikkhu brothers question the Buddha on the appropriateness of using local languages for the exposition of the dhamma.
  • -- The presentation of the thematic factors, the statement or Exposition of the two themes and codetta, is made exactly as in the sonatine-form, though probably upon a broader scale. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
  • Imagery in poetry conveys ideas obliquely, drawing from almost any area of human experience to create a response more effective than direct exposition.
  • I find the setup more accessible than that of Superpowers, whose first issue hinged upon endless expositional conversation with two ghosts, and am really looking forward to where this goes. The Twelve #2 (of 12) | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • The preacher can make good use of this material, but by making broad allusions to many stories rather than by exposition of a single pericope.
  • The essayists are not all British but all of their expositions are measured, well stated summations of a middling to moderately conservative treatment of Paul.
  • Exposition is a wooden harmonicon with twenty bars, and seven bronze harmonicons with bars varying greatly in size and shape, and consequently in tone, and in number from eight to twenty-one in an instrument. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
  • If stiff expositional dialogue scenes and a mystery that doesn't begin until it is almost over sounds like your idea of a good time, then this movie is for you.
  • Through Kocher's exposition it became quite clear that complete extirpation of the thyroid is reprehensible. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 - Presentation Speech
  • We are heading to Hyogo, Japan for the Nation Defense Science Exposition in the year 1941. Weekend Getaway to World War 2 Japan - The Retroist
  • Soon, however, the practice of exposition became sufficiently common to seem to require an ostensorium for that express object, and for this the upright cylindrical vessel of crystal was at first retained, often with supports of an architectural character and with tabernacle work, niches, and statues. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • The theology of the Exposition was anything but subtle.
  • The easy exposition and the portrayal of the historical developments make this useful supplementary reading; with a text of original writings, it could serve as a good introductory text in the history of finance.
  • He does not, however, engage those issues here, leaving his exposition unbothered by the sorts of scholarly concerns that are uppermost in much current study.
  • It purports to be an exposition of Catholic social teaching.
  • Photographs were widely used at the exposition, where the public's thirst for vicarious pleasure seemed insatiable.
  • The most just exposition of the sacred texts, and relation of them to the issues and causes of the parish, gave the expounder a right to judge and to minister to spiritual needs.
  • I tried the theme again before I abandoned it, and was so fortunate as to get him to admit a degree of improvement such as led to his desiring to recall his conjectural judgment on my possibilities as a sonnet-writer, but as the letters in which he characterises the advance are neither so terse in criticism, nor so interesting from the exposition of principles, as the one quoted, I pass them by. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • The publishers claim that the book constitutes 'the first sequential exposition of events and thus of the history of the revolution'.
  • The sense of impending doom is covered in exposition, though, when it should be crystal clear. ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE • by Bill Gaythwaite
  • An important aspect of that transformation is contained in Paul's exposition of the two different types of bodies that we shall receive, the present one "corruptible" and the future one "incorruptible". The Bahama Journal - Bahamas News Headlines
  • Since she graduated from University in 1986, her artworks have been exhibited and frequently awarded at national expositions.
  • The term prophesy, in this instance, must be restricted to the use of psalmody, because exposition or exhortation in public was not permitted to the women, who were not allowed to speak or even to ask a question in a place of worship. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
  • We walked on, visiting a booth of dancing dwarfs, a concert in the mixolydian mode for double-flute, aulos and kithara; a diviner who foretold the winner of the stade race by casting pebbles (the morrow proved him wrong), and even, briefly, a lawyer's exposition of how he could win his client's case when justice, law, public opinion and all the evidence were on the other side. The Mask of Apollo
  • There are signposts in the text but Desai stops so frequently to admire the scenery that they are buried beneath lengthy expositions and descriptions of the setting sun.
  • One or two statements appear to take Calvinism to unbiblical extremes, but these do not compromise the overall exposition.
  • After the conclusion of the exposition in bar 182, Mozart needs only nine bars to reach the key of B minor - at the interval of a tritone.
  • “The sense of impending doom is covered in exposition, though, when it should be crystal clear.” ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE • by Bill Gaythwaite
  • Whole panels filled by a word balloon as characters practice exposition to describ what the heck is going on. Comic musings for 5 July
  • Intriguingly, the author of this cataclysmic theatrical moment politely refused to engage in either explanations or expositions about his work.
  • Having stayed in this land of elephants and snake charmers for twenty years now, I've become used to this inane exposition of sanctimoniousness.
  • Thus a sonata exposition, which in Mozart or Beethoven may often have two contrasting themes, is said to have a ‘first subject’ and a ‘second subject’.
  • I am no fan of laboured expositions and the pat wisdoms dispensed by many academic writers on this subject.
  • It was the closest work in the program to classical exposition, danced in front of the curtain on the apron, where bends are not really contortions and twists owe something to Yoga.
  • After the conclusion of the exposition in bar 182, Mozart needs only nine bars to reach the key of B minor - at the interval of a tritone.
  • In conclusion: the plot ticks, the exposition is thick, the characters are not, and the reader investment is nil. REVIEW: Gray Apocalypse by James Murdoch
  • She also participated in the Pan-American Exposition, but by this time she was depressed and an alcoholic – a problem she might have suffered her entire life. Five People Born on May Day | myFiveBest
  • The portrayal of Bob and his boat could perhaps be said to reach inward -- although this is done through concentration and indirection, not through the tedium of the "free indirect" method -- as well as to expand outward and around Bob in concentric circles of thinly-layered exposition, but it could hardly be said to ever really push forward into a plotted narrative. Experimental Fiction
  • I understand that exposition is necessary, and exposition is my preferred mode of teaching, but tonight I was able to see a bit more clearly how crucial exposition is to the persuasion that a teacher hopes for. Realizations of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
  • A cette occasion nous lancons notre site Internet qui permettra à tout un chacun de visiter la première exposition virtuelle des meilleurs sites internet de la caraïbe francophone. Global Voices in English » French Caribbean: “Les Scoops d’Or” Competition
  • Women and children from the near and rich country towns, in for the Exposition and their fall shopping; wearing gowns of ultra fashionable tendencies; leaving in their toilets nothing to expediency; taking no chances of so much as a ribbon or a loop set in disaccordance with the book. At Fault
  • My point is that the preacher will need to move away from a method of close exposition of a single pericope to take a broader look at the larger plot.
  • Fitz and Charm weren't discouraged a bit by this honest exposition.
  • But it is very talky in its middle act, a lot of the more horrible elements of the story needing exposition to envision them, since the production couldn't afford to create the necessary visuals.
  • In Chinese traditional culture, there have been brilliant expositions on art education. To probe the treasure-house of traditional culture will inspire the reforms of art education.
  • They were visited by the subcommissioner of the exposition and advised of the conveniences provided for the participants of the fair. On the Trail of the Space Pirates
  • It can be used for expositional purposes, in the form of diagrams.
  • Nadel is excellent at providing an exposition of Stoppard's ideas and the wider social context in which he lives.
  • It purports to be an exposition of Catholic social teaching.
  • Thusly lured inside, Saul begins the exposition and starts answering an endless stream of silly questions, answered equally as sillily, and once by a ferret in a magic pot. TV Fail, Cookie Win
  • If you read standard expositions of Quantum Theory you can put together a certain list of the things that are not effects.
  • One example of an extraneous element irrelevant to any story-based or character exposition occurs after Sergio returns from the airport.
  • Many of the leading decisions contain judgments by Lord Denning which should be read for their chronological symmetry and clarity of exposition.
  • M.ntmartre -- rooms high up on the fifth floor -- where, between two pictures, supposed to be by Angelica Kaufmann, M. Duval had written unactable plays for the last twenty years, and where he would continue to write unactable plays until God called him to a world, perhaps, of eternal cantatas, but where, by all accounts, _l'exposition de la pièce selon la formule de M. Scribe_ is still unknown. Confessions of a Young Man
  • Many of the leading decisions contain judgments by Lord Denning which should be read for their chronological symmetry and clarity of exposition.
  • The holy Councel of Trent, for these and many other important considerations, hath declared and defined this onely of al other latin translations, to be authentical, and so onely to be vsed and taken in publike lessons, disputations, preachings, and expositions, and that no man presume vpon any pretence to reiect or refuse the same. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  • This literal and most pious exposition of that gospel contains the whole practical science of virtues and vices, and is an inexhausted source of excellent morality, and a finished model of preaching the word of God, and of expounding the oracles of eternal life for the edification of souls. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • Wood provides a systematic exposition of the idea of biodiversity.
  • In Morgan City, Louisiana, the International Petroleum Museum & Exposition leads tours of the 67-meter-long "Mr. Charlie" rig, named after the father of the Murphy Oil Corp. 's late owner, who helped finance construction of the transportable, submersible rig. Stationary At Sea: Staying Where the Mighty Drills Have Fallen Silent
  • The fullest exposition of Coleridge's thought can be found in the States-man's Manual.
  • In Treatise on the quadrilateral al-Tusi gave the first extant exposition of the whole system of plane and spherical trigonometry.
  • I already knew which major surprises were coming, so I just had to wait around for them while the characters spouted incredibly leaden, flat, expositional dialogue. Whiteout (The Movie) » DVDs Worth Watching
  • BOTTOM LINE: The plot ticks, the exposition is thick, the characters are not, and the reader investment is nil. REVIEW: Gray Apocalypse by James Murdoch

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