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- adjective writing Serving as
exposition .
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Examples
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I was just meaning in the sense that yerself and Jetse seemed to be tending to focus on the expositionary aspect.
On Prologues Hal Duncan 2009
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Apart from the constant, expositionary detail about the consequences of the miracle, which we have now worked out is the purpose of Dr Vera, nothing particularly bad has happened yet.
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Get Smart does not fall into the expositionary trap that would have nearly been acceptable in a movie of this kind.
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It also builds on the expositionary overload of The Sworn Sword, where the backstory about the Blackfyre Rebellion was fascinating but overdone compared to what was actually needed for the plot, whilst here it is actually essential to the story.
The Mystery Knight by George R.R. Martin Adam Whitehead 2010
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In my review of FlashForward I attributed that novel's old-fashioned style to its expositionary characters who exist purely to serve the plot.
Archive 2009-12-01 Adam Whitehead 2009
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It's always been much more about the forward-moving storyline and its expositionary history episodes have always felt a bit awkward like 'No Exit', or sometimes even totally nonsensical, like 'Hero' because it's not really what the show is about.
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In my review of FlashForward I attributed that novel's old-fashioned style to its expositionary characters who exist purely to serve the plot.
Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds Adam Whitehead 2009
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There are some clever ideas to achieve this, such as opening with River's escape from the institution and then jumping forwards past the events of the TV show to the 'present', but they are outstretched by a lot of clunky expositionary dialogue.
Archive 2009-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2009
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There are some clever ideas to achieve this, such as opening with River's escape from the institution and then jumping forwards past the events of the TV show to the 'present', but they are outstretched by a lot of clunky expositionary dialogue.
Serenity Adam Whitehead 2009
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Just try writing three pages of expositionary dialogue and not have it look like an info-dump.
Hh Com 317 Miss Snark 2006
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