Mr. Alda isn't altogether adept in the necessary matter of exposition, either, leaving Ms. Gunn to deliver a stagy monologue describing Marie's unhappy history as a governess back in Poland.
The matter-of-fact exposition of how Al Qaeda recruits and trains is sobering.
Spoken languages make use of intonation and voice qualities in these different ways; a person can produce and recognize the intonation and type of voice employed in coaxing, in pleading, in browbeating, in threatening, in pleasure, and in anger, as well as those appropriate for matter-of-fact statements and the exposition of details about which the speaker has little or no emotional involvement.
It's not a matter of a lack of exposition or of illustration; good directors can fill out a world with a light and rapid touch, even with a shuddering word (the name "Steve" in "To Have and Have Not") or a goofy one (the "Sixteenth Chapel" in "The Break-Up").
They were skilled in the art of exposition, by which a subject matter was not only developed systematically but also given such meaning as the author thought appropriate.
For the purposes of exposition it does not matter whether the changes in state to which we refer are gradual or catastrophic, or whether there is one precise point in the language that effects this change, or whether there is a gradual accrual of information from the language that modulates cognitive states across time.
He's junked pages of exposition, rewritten lines, refocused characters.
Even at the level of exposition, the book is breathless.
Can that chunk of exposition be diversified by dialogue?
Some very bland sexuality and near-lethal levels of exposition.
