Sentence examples for act of exposition from inspiring English sources

Barton's last session, an open lecture attended by the participants as well as by ticket buyers, turned out to be as much an act of drama as an act of exposition.

The first act consists almost entirely of exposition, catching the audience up on the characters' complex back stories; the second act leaves several of them on the stage for long periods without much to do.

"I've never done anything extraordinary," says Finch in one of several brazen acts of self-exposition, "I think that's why I play video games, 'cos they're more interesting than my real life".

At first, they were just a pair of act one exposition devices - like the servants who hugger-mugger in the footlights at the top of a Shakespeare play and fill you in on what's going down with the rich folks.

She instructed the artist that the coin was to have a figure of Isabella on the obverse, and the inscription "Commemorative coin issued for the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition by Act of Congress, 1492 1892" on the reverse, as well as the denomination and the name of the country.

Evaporation from the skin may limit the degree of exposition in occupational exposures and act like a barrier against toxicants.

The events in the film -- tiny comic moments, episodes of furious feeling and a climactic act of senseless brutality -- unfold without exposition or explanation.

I was looking at the first act as exposition to get me into the second act.

For ease of exposition, I'll list them individually.

"Come now, quite enough of exposition and explanation.

Even at the level of exposition, the book is breathless.