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- noun Plural form of
exegesis .
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Examples
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Dexter fans writing 5,000-word exegeses of the show, and nonprofits like the
Wired Top Stories Clive Thompson 2011
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There's no way to pick that passage apart except to bring to bear the same kind of exegeses on language and form that one aims at the poems of Gerald Manley Hopkins.
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Here are super-compact exegeses of the credit crunch, Marxism and Keynesianism, derivatives, the World Bank and IMF, and "green economics".
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What is clear to to anyone with half a brain who has read Augustine – check that you don't even have to have read him but rather simply posses a modicum of common sense, is that he was criticizing Christians who misuse scripture to support incorrect scientific views, views that are not demanded by all viable exegeses of the text, usually just by a hyper-literal one.
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I feel that we really don't need to insult our readers' intelligence with explanatory epithets and inner psychological exegeses.
Vamsee Juluri: Lord Shiva And The Economist: A New Low For Journalism Vamsee Juluri 2011
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But a truly great critic would take on the actual arguments, interpretations, and exegeses of Pynchon’s most eloquent and intelligent admirers.
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But a truly great critic would take on the actual arguments, interpretations, and exegeses of Pynchon’s most eloquent and intelligent admirers.
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I'm drawing on some of the exegeses I was required to do in high school; you spend so much time trying to be overly analytical that you miss some of the bigger things.
In Defense of Criticism jimhines 2010
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I just spent a while reading through the sharp, comprehensive exegeses of other songs (some of the best are Lil Wayne's "A Milli", Ghostface Killah's "Big Girl", and The Notorious B. I.G.'s "10 Crack Commandments.")
Nick Antosca: Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" Broken Down for You by the Scholars at Rap Genius 2010
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Rap Genius is young, but there are a lot more exegeses in progress than there were when I first clicked on the site.
Nick Antosca: Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" Broken Down for You by the Scholars at Rap Genius 2010
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