Do any creative projects — including personal poetry, expository writing, etc.
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Very little that's spoken, though, feels merely expository or interpolated.
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But it's not an expository essay; it's a narrative essay.
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It's expository dialogue without the character-building to back it up.
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The movie's devotion to this sort of expository sparseness is incredibly refreshing.
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Some are beautifully expository, aesthetic triumphs in their own right ("The Scaffolding").
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The novel is generously condensed, ardently focused, its mechanisms poetic, not expository.
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It's refreshing to witness a writer flexing in so many expository modes.
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SOAPSTone provides analysis of an expository text and supports the writing process.
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As a result, talent like Weaver's is stifled, dulled into redundant expository flourishes.
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Now Stone is continuing the trend of expository wardrobe into awards-show season.
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The series explains the confines and norms of its setting through expository, necessary dialogue.
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When I have a subject that requires sustained expository prose, I write an article.
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The writing occasionally lacks vibrancy, despite its great excitements; the dialogue is heavily expository.
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Of course the eighth episode of Westworld would be an hour of expository table setting.
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It also compounds its narrative and thematic issues by entering a mostly expository mode of storytelling.
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At other times, characters are introduced via expository dialogue, almost like verbal footnotes in the script.
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His writing has always trended toward the overly expository, but now exposition is all it is.
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What's a pre-battle chat for if not a little expository dialogue to set things up?
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Strong persuasive or expository writing features topic sentences that tell the reader what to focus on.
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The bookcase, behind its glass-fronted doors, carried the collected expository discourses of many scribbling preachers.
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Even as you solve puzzles or explore maze-like environments, the banter continues like expository background music.
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Malaria's Last Stand is an expository look at the ongoing burden of one of humanity's oldest diseases.
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"Fahrenheit 451" explains this, sort of, in expository downloads that feel like spackle on the narrative cracks.
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She went into a Forever 21 and found these two to shoot a few expository scenes with.
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Even this expository part of The Circle's supposed dystopian universe doesn't feel far off enough to be effective.
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On several other occasions, the main characters vanish, yielding their place to long expository passages of American history.
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Mr. Damon's regular-guy affability carries the movie through its expository phase, which is a lot of fun.
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The book does not dwell on the policies that might achieve such outcomes; it is more expository than prescriptive.
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Of course, the one thing she DOES explain, in overly expository fashion, is the issue with the gender pronouns.
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The book's second mode is expository — summations of news, history and statistics, which Sengupta delivers in cool, swift language.
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People know how she appears, but to me, that's part of expository writing, describing what the person looks like.
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Television relies more on dialogue and conversation, and there, "Devs" is shakier, given to unnatural expository downloads and speechifying.
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In one expository scene about a certain character's creation and worldview, for example, he asks an honest question about genitalia.
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Most of its lengthy scenes involve significant characters exchanging expository dialogue about their various inter-involved stories and plot trajectories.
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Characters speak in preposterously long paragraphs, heaping expository backstory on one another until almost every exchange resembles a wiki entry.
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This is not to suggest that Ms. Kennedy, at 86, has made new concessions to narrative conventions or expository clarity.
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On-the-nose music cues and awkwardly expository dialogue doesn't elevate the material as much as keep it resolutely earthbound.
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The story's pace also suffers in this half, mostly because Cooper tends to have characters pause and give expository speeches.
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Since this is a film by Terrence Malick, the arguments don't take the usual stagy, back-and-forth, expository form.
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It's the golden age of television, so why are we still forced to withstand fake laugh tracks and expository dialogue?
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According to 500 pages of emails from the school district, many of the documents flagged by Gaggle appear creative or expository.
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Despite the expository angle, the network quickly came under fire for what many saw as normalizing the KKK's actions and philosophy.
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It was partly expository and partly narrative, and I was burying so much of the narrative, because these are my friends.
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An expository prologue returns as an epilogue during the closing credits, at a point past when understandably impatient viewers will have left.
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The dialogue is heavy on expository gibberish, nearly all of which is delivered by Bryan Cranston as the digitally spruced-up Zordon.
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Both go to great expository lengths to explain minute details of video game lore, none of which is very interesting on screen.
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Some voices have broken through to mass audiences—Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein—mostly in expository styles geared toward sharing information and analysis.
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Consistent with that interpretation, researchers find that people's listening and reading abilities are more similar for simple narratives than for expository prose.
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It invites comparison with Simon Schama's recent "The Story of the Jews," although the expository strategies of the two books diverge sharply.
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Designed by Julia Luke, these vinyl wall coverings appear throughout the exhibition, largely taking the place of lengthy expository text — to great effect.
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Monty reiterates this to us in hilarious expository dialogue; then, later during the action, Roan again is like we need all 10, right?
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Elsewhere, Christina Hendricks is a bright spot, giving a solid, satirical take on an agent, but her expository scene is all too brief.
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His big expository scene, explaining to Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade the complicated history of the falcon statuette, would probably not be filmed today.
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Long presents 16 pirate-themed spreads, each with expository paragraphs and a list of "10 things to spot" in Bloom's chockablock central illustration.
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Stories tend to be more predictable and employ familiar ideas, and expository essays more likely include unfamiliar content and require more strategic reading.
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Whether explaining his dastardly plans to the audience or whispering sweet poison into Othello's ear, this Iago's manner is usually jocular and expository.
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"I'm Your Santa" is one of the high points here; Jeremih is in full sassy Jackson 5 mode, and Chance is charmingly expository.
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The show has some fun stuff, but there's just so much expository and trope-y fluff that it gets in its own way.
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In most documentaries, human speech is explanatory and expository: Much information is conveyed by means of voice-over narration and talking-head interviews.
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Indeed, half of them are crammed into an opening montage, and it is left to Mr Affleck's expository voice-over to piece them together.
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In any case, the expository details of this dazzling history are less likely to be lost on Britons who never studied the American Revolution.
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And the most deadly and unexpected moment of the book is never explained or justified, even when the big baddie delivers his expository speech.
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"Thrones" has lost some of the books' majesty, but it has given them a much-needed edit, a Valyrian sword hacking through the expository clutter.
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But by the time I reached the middle of the third paragraph, after glossing over some expository wind-up, I realized that I clearly did not.
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Beyond Boe and Minnette, Miles Heizer and Brandon Flynn also go the extra mile in selling subpar and often expository dialogue and growing amounts of melodrama.
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By incorporating objects in this specific expository context—like in La Charada or in a photograph—she give them meaning they may have not had before.
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There are long scenes in which little happens; there are hasty, expository sentences in which we're informed that a character has died and years have passed.
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But beyond that, most of the conversations are bluntly expository, designed to arrange everyone in the right place at the right time with the right justification.
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However, Simone (Brittany O'Grady) overhears Eva — being really loud and really expository, because of course — and realizes that Eva was in cahoots with Jahil the entire time.
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After the early, exciting expository years of the Internet – the Age of Jennicam where the web was supposed to act as confessional and stage – things changed swiftly.
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One New Zealand study found that in formal contexts calling for expository speech, like seminars, TV discussions and classroom debates, men talk more often and for longer.
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Even worse, the show is packed so full of plot that it doesn't have time for character development; whole episodes are filled almost entirely with expository dialogue.
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Often, writer-performers confuse the actor's desire to be seen, to be "exposed" before an audience, with expository writing that's shapeless because it insists on telling all.
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It outlines that students were to deliver five major speeches a year, each five to 15 minutes in length, experimenting with various styles like expository and argumentative.
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The prologue is a farrago, with expository narration pasted over a seemingly random assortment of battles, murders, and wizardy hocus-pocus, but that's not unusual for fantasy epics.
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In short the latest incarnation of the expository impulse is truncated and sites like Facebook and Twitter welcome most hate groups but most draw the line at underboobs.
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But "The Mandibles" suffers from a common flaw of speculative fiction: Virtually every detail of the narrative serves to communicate some expository element, giving it a didactic tone.
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The literalization of the story for streaming-series purposes is encapsulated in the new opening, a long, expository chase scene that was a brief flashback in the film.
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Hermione was flat and underwritten and seemed to make decisions that were not only wholly out of character for her but also only served as expository plot devices.
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It's especially unfortunate that this wheel-spinning for the sake of expository setup was one of the chief complaints of critics who reviewed the previous Fantastic Beasts film.
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At first, we don't know how Hellboy knows her, but like any other character in this movie, there's a heavy-handed expository montage dedicated to filling in those details.
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The chapters often toggle between moments of heightened drama and past scenes of Molly at work, which is a nicely disorienting way to build tension while delivering expository details.
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Maybe then we would be spared watching late-in-the-day expository sequences like Arya learning from Hot Pie that her brother Jon is, sigh, King in the North.
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Usually these transpire in largish set pieces, with each chapter following a different member of the foursome and extended expository interludes laying out the knotted back stories and complications.
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"Assuming Dex has weekly cases, they'll need to tighten up; the pilot's kidnapped-girl plot is expository filler," Mike Hale wrote in a review for The New York Times.
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When the song was released ahead of the record, it was paired with a lengthy, expository letter, addressing the song's intent and the goals she had in mind writing it.
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The work, set to a score by Matyas Seiber, at first appears dated, with its long expository opening set in a house party at the start of the 20th century.
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Mr. Schnabel shows "imaginative freedom in every frame and sequence, dispensing with narrative and expository conventions in favor of a wild, intuitive honesty," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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A song, in a classical musical, allows characters to speak their inner truth in a way that's not just expository, but also feels like a genuine expression of their selves.
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Their titles are expository and sometimes grammatically spotty: Oddly Satisfying Video That Will Put You in Absolute Calmness, 1,000,000 Dominos Falling Is Oddly Satisfying, Satisfying Floam Crushing Compilation No. 6.
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Called Habitat, Facebook's new, open-source simulator was briefly mentioned some months ago but today received the full expository treatment, to accompany a paper on the system being presented at CVPR.
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For every sharp and well-observed paragraph about the challenges of aging, or wise reflection on the unexpected benefits of a failed marriage, there are too many long, overstuffed expository conversations.
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Its writing is elementary and at times egregious, with characters repeating the same expository lines three times in one episode and barely keeping any of each episode's nine plots moving forward.
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Through a series of expository speeches, Clyde eventually mentions there is a second island in an attempt to lure one of the prisoners there, giving him a reason to kill them.
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What On the Basis of Sex does extraordinarily well is explain — without turning to overly clunky expository dialogue — what sets a legal mind like Ginsburg's apart from that of more conservative litigators.
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Gods of Egypt's haphazardly constructed episodic story never really takes shape; it's just an excuse to move from one fantastical encounter to another, with brief exchanges of expository gibberish to link them.
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Even though characters do and say nonsensical things throughout the series, it's even more frustrating when they do and say things that would be better shown than expressed with leaden expository dialogue.
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In tone, style, and substance it is an implicit rebuke of the overly loud, overly determined, overly expository tendencies of big-budget science fiction, and a concise case for sci-fi minimalism.
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In The Get Down, characters sometimes talk in rhymed dialogue, like refugees from Luhrmann's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, and expository phrases float by like burners on the sides of subway cars.
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Some of the dialogue verges on being expository, and yet the nuances of the series' three-way politics still may not always be clear to those who haven't also read the books.
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CBS only made one episode available to critics for review, as networks still often do for some reason, and while pilots are often overly expository or forced, that's not the problem here.
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The SOAPSTone strategy is an academic approach recommended by AP Central (The College Board), as well as the California State University's Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (CSU ERWC), designed for postsecondary success.
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Although Boulez was to live over 20 years after the final lecture, "Music Lessons" has the feel of a vast expository Gesamtkunstwerk that ponders and probes musical experience to its very essence.
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Kostova is a clearheaded, elegant writer with a sneaky gift for incorporating the history and culture of a place into the nooks and crannies of a book that never feels bossy or expository.
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An expository conversation at the end of the first episode waves its hands and asks the audience to turn off its critical thinking and roll with the coming explosions and nonsensical plot twists.
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Westworld isn't entirely immune to that tendency — Jeffrey Wright and Anthony Hopkins, who play the park's key technical minds, both get to deliver expository monologues about weighty topics like the course of human evolution.
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In a painfully expository exchange ("Fairfax Press loves the latest draft of your book, not to mention your Twitter and Instagram followings"), we learn that he's visiting Vancouver to meet with a potential publisher.
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"Joan of Arc," like "Here Lies Love," is almost entirely sung, and, because pop-music lyrics are not particularly expository, the staging, the lighting, and the sound design must tell much of the story.
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The closest thing we have to protagonists on this show are beleaguered prosecutors Marcia Clark (Sarah Paulson) and Christopher Darden (Sterling K. Brown), but their dialogue rarely has a chance to rise above the expository.
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The Rangers were managed by a giant floating head in a tube named Zordon, and assisted by a tiny chattering robot named Alpha 5, whose constant anxiety provided a comic counterpoint to Zordon's expository seriousness.
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Detailing the reasons would give away too much of a multistranded plot that ties together serial murder, murder for hire, real-estate machinations, family melodrama and the usual squad-room clichés (whiteboards, forensics, expository dialogue).
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Many of the changes are centered around Benioff and Weiss making more room for expository dialogue, like adding in Ser Waymar Royce telling Will he'd be executed "as a deserter" if he abandons his post.
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After this expository introduction, electric guitars thrum onto the soundtrack and O-Ei tells us that what she loves is to walk the busy bridge at the center of the city and watch people go by.
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Thirty Flights of Loving turned the first-person game narrative on its head with no expository dialogue, telling its story entirely through its actions and environments, and employing enough jump cuts to make Godard have a fit.
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Nonetheless, the expository notes on that pin-up—ostensibly written by Professor Xavier's friend and confidant, Moira McTaggart—told readers all they needed to know about the character: Haller is the son Professor X never knew he had.
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Whether it's sexposition (using nudity in the background of expository scenes) or the show's prevalent use of sexual assault as a plot device, Game of Thrones has occasionally used its grittiness as a hand-wave to excuse regressive values.
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We get a great deal of expository material about the dawn of the civil rights movement, changes in family structure, and campus protest, and all but entirely miss the psychological experience of parenting from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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But the underpinnings; the desire to work against narrative cliché, the desire to remove expository dialogue and the desire to inject my personal struggles and emotions from my own life into all of this; that all remained the same.
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The Trump team even curtailed its weekend opening session, after the ratings-minded president tweeted that Saturday is "Death Valley in T.V." So his team made only a short expository opening on that day, skirting the weekend ratings desert.
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It's not explained how sinking into water would make something made out of wood explode into flames, but booming expository narration and an unnerving computer-generated teen Jack Sparrow are definitely in keeping with the spirit of modern Disney World.
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As for Eddie Redmayne, the ostensible star as the halting, vulnerable, love-struck Newt Scamander, his role recedes a bit, partly overwhelmed by the swirl of characters around him and the need for long expository passages, which practically require a scorecard.
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Haynes's dialogue can be overly expository, and the liberties she takes with the original myths are to mixed effect: an entirely new character, a kindly physician named Sophon, must be invented to serve as the story's lone sympathetic male presence.
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People had been talking around her the whole game, and I genuinely was pretty interested in knowing what her deal is because I had enough breathing room to get curious and wonder for myself before expository dialogue washed over me.
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His forms are wired into taut outlines, his characters' gestures are theatrical and expository, his palette prefigures mid-century Disney, and his trick of containing different episodes of a story into architecture is just like the multiple panels of a strip.
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So when an old man gave a long, expository monologue in the finale that was designed to fill in all the gaps in the story, it had the feeling of a middle school book report on a novel you know very well.
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Books by John Pomfret and Leslie Chang may offer more distinctive or insightful introductions to the dislocation caused by China's rapid development, but Schmitz's eye for scenes and ear for dialogue give an immediacy to his stories that more expository works often lack.
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"The Lost Family" intersperses expository sections with an intermittent narrative of the step-by-step journey of Alice Collins Plebuch, a woman who is thrown for a loop when AncestryDNA results contradict her impression that her forebears were Irish, English and Scottish.
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As Weems tells it, the idea of making a series of tableaux vivants about a woman's life began with an evening with a man and a chance shot at her kitchen table, the expository triangle of light demarcating a kind of domestic stage.
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Profile RYE BEACH, N.H. — Anyone who has read Dan Brown's work — and with 200 million copies of his books in print, you know who you are — is familiar with his signature technique of inserting little chunks of expository information into the narrative.
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The expository mischief is so infectious and engaging that, despite being confused I am also delighted, and I find myself readily capable of being in those mysteries, uncertainties, and doubts beloved by English Romantics and generated so ardently by zany American poets like Anselm Berrigan.
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That's before I even start in on some of the episode's creative decisions, like the fact that it's basically an episode-long flashback ostensibly delivered as an expository monologue to a young child (who is actually an ancient host, but you know what I mean).
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Dunne is mainly used in this episode as an expository device, providing facts such as that O.J.'s current girlfriend had broken up with him for Michael Bolton on the night of the murders, and that she returned to him after he was arrested.
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In the late '60s, the musical broke new ground not only because it featured onstage nudity from a racially diverse cast, but also because it dispensed with plot almost entirely, introducing a bold style of a musical untethered from the traditional expository demands of theater.
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The most difficult task facing Infinity War is addressing all of the characters, motivations, subplots, and relationships that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has built up over the years without making it feel like an expository avalanche careening down a mountain to bury the audience below.
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The very title of "The Report" lays out the movie's most daunting challenge: How do you engage, never mind excite, an audience with sheafs of classified documents, vaultlike work spaces and reams of expository dialogue — chunks of it delivered by impassive men in identical gray suits?
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But if, say, Daenerys hadn't spent so much time spinning her wheels in Essos and come to Dragonstone earlier to face more meaningful challenges there — or if they'd just done the usual 10 episodes this season — perhaps this current stretch wouldn't feel like such an expository sprint.
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Hasbún's anti-expository prose is very effective, with fine details like the "dinner of tortillas and sauerkraut" they eat on their way into the rain forest, and the "poster of Lake Titicaca on the wall" at the Bolivian consulate in Hamburg before Monika fires her Colt Cobra.
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A quick recap for those unfamiliar with the films or who didn't pay super-close attention to the expository dialogue (spoilers follow, obviously): Captain America leads a team of (mostly) superhuman warriors who possess the power to level cities, topple governments, and create world-threatening AIs.
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The goal here — with the music, the voiceover, the projections (at first expository then speculative à la Neil Degrasse Tyson) — seems to be to create a kind of gateway through which the small tour group passes into another time and space; one you can't otherwise access.
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In this debut Martin Stewart follows a trail blazed by greater writers before him, yet he more than makes up for the predictable and sometimes laughable plot devices and clunky, long-winded expository speeches with an exquisite sense of style and a gift for the singular wonder of language.
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While the scene (and the season as a whole) has quite a few overly expository moments that border on heavy-handed (and perhaps unintentionally give Melrose a pass on the racism she perpetuated), it manages to avoid going fully After School Special by staying true to the characters' humor.
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Zeta Jones and Bates do what they can, but listening to them lay out the details of the feud and its participants' lives gets clunky fast, especially when the show jumps back to the '60s again and Lange and Sarandon pick up where they left off over expository drinks.
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How Mr. Rogers — who met with Mr. Rod-Larsen and Ms. Juul during his obviously extensive research — puts theory into practice is a marvel of both expository efficiency and exciting showmanship, by which a big picture is revealed to be a composite shot of precisely defined, imperfect individuals.
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I wonder if the creators agree, as they appear to heed their own advice with the final episode: an hour of expository answers to nearly every one of the show's questions, spliced in with a bloodbath that should surely get the park erased from the earnings report of parent company Delos.
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We needed to find a way to visually weave this and other spatial details into the narrative, so Derek decided to try a technique that he had used in two previous stories (on Bolivia and Greenland) in which an expository section of the story needed to be closely tied to animated visuals.
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While the overall approach of these documentaries is intended to be expository, the aesthetics of the films reflect a mood of emergency and crisis: rough camerawork, a shaky hand-held focus, scenes that are dimly lit and heighten the dangerous conditions they are shot in, including the risk to those holding the cameras themselves.
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Naturally, as obviously bad movies go, The Shallows is dragged under by expository asides and "plot" devices: the hovering presence of Lively's long-dead mother, a seagull whom she can voice-command like a dog, her tendency to talk herself through pain and suffering like a med student practicing bedside manner, and the anthropomorphic malevolence of the shark itself.
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Indeed, so much has been written about the making of The Blair Witch Project—the improvised dialogue, the long nights during which the crew terrorized the cast with spooky noises, the fortunate creation of Heather Donahue's iconic snot-nosed close-up—that its real-world backstory feels as mythological as any of its wonderfully vague expository dialogue about the evil history of the Black Hills Forest.
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Absolutely skip the first three, where the show is at its most expository and labored, and just know this: Justin (Dan Byrd), our narrator, is a high school dorkus whose social life is so crummy that his mother, Franny (Amy Pietz), agrees to house a foreign exchange student, Raja (Adhir Kalyan), in the hopes that Justin will make a friend and gain some social footing.
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Instead of interacting with Thor and Loki, or any of the film's other memorable characters, Blanchett's Hela spends most of her scenes making expository speeches about her past and how much she wants to make all the kingdoms kneel before her glory, delivered to empty throne rooms, a sea of anonymous Asgardian soldiers, or Karl Urban's Skurge, a dopey minion to whom Hela takes a liking.
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The "Codex Leicester," named after an 18th-century owner, Thomas Coke, earl of Leicester, is a compendium of ideas and investigations, and the expository panels are a refrain of firsts: an instrument that anticipated the modern odometer; observations on the speed of river flows, and detailed descriptions of waves and their impact; and a device to stay underwater for a long time, which Leonardo did not describe in detail "because of the evil nature of men," who might use it to sink enemy ships and cause deaths, he wrote.
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