Late in life, Töpffer produced an essay expounding a theory of the doodle, and demonstrating that, to a viewer, even an approximately drawn face seems to possess character.
In 1993, he published The Problem with Music, an essay expounding his belief that the major label-dominated industry of the time was inefficient, exploited musicians and led to below par music.
The ten triads are ten sets of three essays expounding the ten main doctrines of the Mohist school.
He continued to write essays expounding on the need for democracy and human rights in China, and started a blog in 2011.
Between the publication of The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge, in 1920, and the appearance of The Axiomatization of the Theory of Relativity in 1924, Reichenbach published a series of professional and popular essays expounding or defending the special and general theories and Reichenbach's own axiomatization, which was published in outline in 1921 in Physikalische Zeitschrift (1921d).
A newly translated Roberto Bolaño essay expounds on his love of books.
In another essay he expounded on the sheer difficulty: "The truth is it's a crazy way to play the uke; ease of execution is all but sacrificed, subordinated to whatever it takes to get that shimmering, harplike sound.
In his many essays, he expounded this view in many different ways.
"The lyric essay doesn't expound, is suggestive rather than exhaustive, depends on gaps, may merely mention," he writes (quoting John D'Agata and Deborah Tall), and so it is with his book, which argues forcefully and passionately, but not like a debate-team captain, more like a clever if overmatched boxer, endlessly bobbing and weaving.
Over a hefty corpus that includes memoir, novels, children's books, plays, short stories and essays, Thiong'o has expanded the frontiers of post-colonial theory, critiquing capitalism and expounding on the power that comes from a deep connection with one's mother tongue.
He enjoyed expounding in broad strategic terms.
