Sentence examples for exposition in which from inspiring English sources

Less successful are the potted and often undigested chunks of exposition in which Holden sets out to explain Prohibition and the scandals of the Harding administration.

It's a process known as exposition, in which every turn in the narrative – it would be a stretch to call anything a twist – is worth restating at least once.

The structure of fantasy calls for episodes of increasingly perilous action connected by passages of exposition, in which the necessary facts of history, geography and genealogy are revealed to the hero and, over his shoulder, to the audience.

Defying another rule of fiction, "Sunset Park" is written mostly in summary, large chunks of exposition in which we are told exactly what each character is thinking, feeling, facing.

In essence it consists of an exposition in which one or more themes are presented, the first (often forceful in character) in the tonic key and the second (often lyric) in the dominant.

It will be observed that when both themes appear recapitulated in the tonic, the function of the transition between themes differs from that in the exposition, in which it leads from one key to another.

Over the course of the late 1st millennium BC, fu became the name of poetic expositions in which an author or composer created a comprehensive exposition and performed it as a rhapsody.

R. C. Harvey defined comics as "pictorial narratives or expositions in which words (often lettered into the picture area within speech balloons) usually contribute to the meaning of the pictures and vice versa".

I opened up the doors to Chinese commerce, letting them hold an exposition here, in which they brought everything they had — and they sold everything they brought".

Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho features many short exposition chapters in which the main character, Patrick, monologues about various aspects of consumer culture: stereo equipment, pop music, and clothes.

Fairs evolved into more benign national showcases, most notably the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, which proved that the city had emerged from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake, and the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition, which created Treasure Island and celebrated the industrial wonders of the time.