Sentence examples for exposition you from inspiring English sources

This story isn't eaked out over quests, it's sat in front of you suddenly, a massive pill of exposition you need to swallow before much fun happens.

(If, as many pianists do, you skip the repeat of the exposition, you must also skip the nine preparatory bars that lead into it, ending with that trill of doom).

Flick through the novel on which it's based and you'll find all those incidents, sometimes with emotional exposition you sort of hope has been lost in translation (sample line: "Erika is baked inside the cake pan of eternity").

But there are also instances of glib, shortcut exposition you associate with sitcom pilots. (An exultant Steve to Sara when he thinks his financing has come through: "Do you what this means?" Sara: "That we can have a baby?") If "Grace" winds up haunting you, it will be because of Mr. Shannon's performance.

But there's a world of difference between listening to a song with incomprehensible lyrics and watching an incomprehensible play with wilfully stilted dialogue, in which puzzling epigrams collide with clunky exposition: "You were sent here from another planet and you never got back home to your family.

And like so many broadcast network dramas of late, the drama hits the viewer over the head with obvious exposition ("What you do is, you see the worst in yourself and apply that to everyone else!"), which might be tolerable if the other elements of the show were working more consistently.

Clean and clear bit of YOU ARE THE HERO exposition, then you wander off into a world that largely adapts itself to suit your current ability: a neat, simple, welcoming design that gives everyone the joy of exploration while only really having to worry about those fucking bears.

The old problem of this game's key narrative delivery technique remains: you have to follow computer-controlled characters who yell orders and exposition at you, but often they move too slow and it gets frustrating – like attempting to navigate Oxford Street on a particularly chaotic festive shopping day.

It dispenses with the usual courtesies of exposition; plunging you without ceremony into a drab, postwar world full of drab, postwar people whose interrelationships and experiences are entirely opaque.

"Pretty close to the edge," exclaimed a character during last night's episode, in such an unnecessarily literal moment of symbolic exposition that you briefly wondered if we'd then see Luther skating on thin ice or tripping over a loose cannon or getting called away to investigate some cattle that had been trespassing on a nearby Royal Doulton concession.

Science-fiction films are tough enough with exposition when you're trying to explain the rules of the world, but on top of that we're trying to catch people up with 28 years of back story.