Sentence examples for expositive from inspiring English sources

Plain, plodding and relentlessly expositive, "Burzynski" tries to wrestle medical clarity from a snarl of science and human suffering.

Dylan's girlfriend, fleetingly introduced for no other purpose than to have an expositive argument with him, complains: "Your childhood is some privileged sanctuary you live in all the time, instead of here with me".

Similarly, 'describe' appears both as a verdictive and as an expositive whereas one would expect taxonomic categories to be mutually exclusive.

In this classification, assertion would best be placed under expositives, since the prefix 'I assert' is or may be of an expository nature.

As an alternative, Austin suggested five classes of illocutionary types (or illocutionary verbs): verdictives, exercitives, commissives, behabitives and expositives (Austin 1962: 151 64).