Sentence examples for novel exposition from inspiring English sources

Among other things, the Florida Supreme Court provided an extraordinary remedy that has no statutory basis, and its novel exposition of the contest provision essentially reads out other more specific provisions in Florida's election code.

The novel's exposition never gets any more convincing, or any less clumsy.

(The novel's exposition is leisurely, but in its second half the bodies pile up at an impressive rate).

David Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence and made numerous changes to the characters.

Philo was also novel in his exposition of the mystic love of God that God has implanted in man and through which man becomes Godlike.

This is a cerebral, sedately paced novel, necessarily heavy on exposition – in truth a thriller by name rather than nature.

Richard Curtis's well-paced script based on Andy Mulligan's novel is short on exposition at the onset, which keeps the audience guessing, but offers an unwieldy knot of information halfway through.

Dennis Lehane's 1998 "Gone, Baby, Gone" was a taut, exposition-packed novel about the apparent kidnapping of a 4-year-old girl.

Curiously enough, though Brookner's art histories bubble with the delight of discovery and joyful exposition, her novels tend to describe a grey milieu of enervated, stranded and tentatively hopeless women.

Though Ms. Chevalier seems to want to use her characters' problems to illuminate changing social mores in post-Victorian England, much the way she used the story of Vermeer and his maidservant to illuminate class and religious tensions in the Netherlands, the exposition in this novel is so graceless and ham-handed that it turns her story into a crudely drawn connect-the-dots diagram.

This first part is mildly diverting, unsophisticated fare that takes liberties with the original novel yet still stumbles on confusing exposition that doesn't really make complete sense even when it's taken from the book.