While some instances of this form, for example Boethius's commentary in dialogue form on Porphyry's Isagoge, simply make use of the form as a vehicle for straightforward exposition, others make the dialogue form intrinsic to the argument.
In this essay, I want to explain why a full and straightforward exposition of macroevolution in seventh-grade life-science texts, high school biology texts, freshman-level college biology texts, and upper division texts in evolution and related subjects is the single most effective advance that can be made in educating the public about evolution.
Ockham's form for considering particular types of terms or propositions is generally straightforward exposition occasionally mixed with a presentation of opposing positions and responses to the arguments for that position.
The German-born Roland Emmerich, who made everything in "Independence Day" into a pop-cult joke, turns out to have a talent not only for violence but for straightforward exposition, and even for reverent celebration.
Beneath the breezy, artless veneer of her prose is a comprehensive artfulness in which her meaning is conveyed with a minimum of words -- or at least of straightforward exposition.
As in his previous work on such topics as tickling, kissing and curiosity, his style here owes much to Derrida and Lacan, who abandoned straightforward exposition for rigorous wordplay, teasing dozens of associations from a single figure of speech.
But whether we consider the world view of the Monarchia an aberration [D'Entreves, 51] or take it as Dante's straightforward exposition of his views on the relations of secular and religious authority, its categorical definition of the twofold purpose of human life is impossible to explain away.
While avoiding straightforward exposition, the hearty conversation creates complete and subtle portraits of self-sabotaging lives scarred by unconscious cruelty, willed forgetfulness, fractured relationships and, above all, a sense of loss.
A straightforward sandwich cheddar.
