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The phrase "a lot of exposition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the amount of background information or context provided in a narrative, such as in literature, film, or storytelling.
Example: "The novel was criticized for having a lot of exposition in the first few chapters, which slowed down the pacing of the story."
Alternatives: "a great deal of exposition" or "much exposition".
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The first-time feature director Michael Arias, an American who lives and works in Japan, stuffs a lot of exposition and action into 100 eminently watchable if baggy minutes.
After a slow beginning with a lot of exposition, the pace and tension hot up splendidly as Shardlake's inquiries take him to the Hampshire home of a family with a great deal to hide.
At first there is a lot of exposition about who Teresa is and her place in the cartel, which is made even more egregious by a voiceover, which is, coincidentally, also the worst aspect of Narcos.
That's a lot of exposition and plot to pack in, resulting in stretches of Weekend Shift where no-one appears to have remembered that comedies benefit from, well, jokes.
She serves everybody wine, lavishly identifying them as "every Frey who means a damn thing" and "the men who helped me slaughter the Starks at the Red Wedding" — there's a lot of exposition in this episode — and then, as they drink, she begins to enumerate their crimes.
Though, there's a lot of exposition at the beginning.
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We had a lot of exposition-filled dialogue – fair enough I suppose as they had a lot to get through.
This entails a lot of political exposition that plods a bit early on; but pleasures await the patient reader.
The Immortals begins by cramming in a lot of pluperfect exposition and often thereafter seems in a hurry to recount things in a general way ("Often, that evening") rather than to linger in scenic detail.
A lot of early exposition time is also used to explain the chicanery of Jafar (voice by Jonathan Freeman), the Sultan's evil vizier, whose chilling, bony features suggest a composite of Nancy Reagan (the animators have mentioned this as a deliberate reference, along with a more pointed one to Conrad Veidt in "The Thief of Bagdad") and Captain Hook.
Re-establishing where things left off last year isn't unusual in a season-opener, but a lot of the exposition in "SOA's" return serves as a reminder of how much of Season 4 was an exercise in wheel-spinning and the deployment of cliffhangers that went nowhere.
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