Sentence examples for exegetic from inspiring English sources

Shabda is of particular importance to the exegetic Mimamsa school.

Ms. Clarke does enlist a few talking heads, but her heart obviously isn't in it: the interviews are framed within cartoon television sets, as if to trivialize the whole exegetic process.

An exegetic argument about Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe" between Gerry, a gangster's moll and the chief drug dealer could have come out of Reservoir Dogs, or Tipperary Terriers as they might well call it out there.

You can sense his relief when he declares that the "main emphasis" of his book is "exegetic".

I imagine Bowles's speaking voice here as matter-of-fact, exegetic: "I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born," he answered (that place was Flushing, Queens, in 1910; he was the only child of a rancorous, unloving father and a meek, bookish mother).

The exegetic principle he adopts is the following: since the authority of Scripture is greater than our capacity of understanding, if some errors and/or inconsistencies are found in the Bible, there is something wrong with our interpretation.

professor at Edinburgh University calls Rebus to say that, as the author of Reader Exercises and Directed Exegetic Response, he has noticed that the names of the victims appear to make up a word: take the first letters of their Christian names and surnames and they spell out the word Samantha.