Theodore's only extant work is the Liber scholiorum ("Book of Annotations"), the Latin designation of a vast Syriac collection of observations and elucidations taking their point of departure from biblical passages but developed into detailed considerations of philosophy, psychology, logic, and Eastern religions.
But most of the time his elucidations are superfluous and intrusive.
As is often the case with questions of women and power, elucidations here verged on the paranormal.
The felicity comes, first, in the person of Waleed al Jahmi, the owner, who offers cheerful elucidations on the menu and updates on his health-code-testing attempts to build an outdoor wood oven, for the purpose of properly roasting a lamb.
At the organization's Web site, tricentricfoundation.org, digital copies of other recordings on New Braxton House Records are for sale, and elucidations of Mr. Braxton's ideas are posted.
Illuminating the tales played out in a lavish assortment of hand scrolls, hanging scrolls, screens and books, the exhibition, with its explications and elucidations, gives didacticism a good name.
The dances, which explored a mother, a wife and a goddess, were interrupted with Ms. Dandekar's lengthy elucidations.
He worked as a psychologist for many years, and his poems seem to me to be extraordinarily honest elucidations of the "secret ministry" of the mind.
He's an articulate, generous explainer, and his elucidations of what he was thinking when he first imagined that shot or made that cut reveal a rigorous self-awareness and a mind that's at once phenomenally cluttered and coherent.
"In Search of Lost Time" is full of internal cross-references, recalls of earlier experiences pointing toward much later elucidations.
There are brief and masterly elucidations of fine distinctions in meaning, such as that between "cheerful" and "cheery" ("The cheerful feels & perhaps shows contentment, the cheery shows & probably feels it").
