Sentence examples for unnecessary exposition from inspiring English sources

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It's that, even as she resists unnecessary exposition, Mary refuses to be anything but frank.

I know Good Night and Good Luck had its fans, but I can't now remember a single scene from that film, outside a generalized impression of men in darkened rooms, smoking, remonstrating and reasoning with one another – a vision of sotto voce cinema, void of unnecessary exposition, where drama means never having to raise your voice unnecessarily.

2. Will the studio once again shoe-horn in an unwieldy, last minute Ford voiceover aimed at offering wholly unnecessary exposition to bemused viewers, or stick with the sublimely enigmatic style of Scott's cut? 3. Will anyone want to take out product placement ads in the sequel, considering the famous "Blade Runner curse"?

The two-hour-long pilot episode is top heavy with unnecessary exposition.

Maybe it's the slower pacing of the older movies, but the show seems to get bogged down in too much unnecessary exposition at the beginning.

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I decided this would conflict with my aims and anyway, emotional conflict is inherent to child protection; artificial hyperbole could only cheapen.There were a number of technical aspects I needed to learn, like "show, don't tell, (avoid unnecessary static exposition by characters) and the importance of subtext (demonstrate the meaning underlying the dialogue).

Not only are we forced to endure pages of unnecessary and lugubrious exposition, but we're also asked to plow through plodding descriptions of Reed's encounters with various ranchers, soldiers and fellow pioneers, while all we really want to do is return to Patty's account of what is happening to the Donner party, snowbound in the Sierras.

Happily, "Angelopolis" improves upon its predecessor, which proceeded as placidly as a day at Evangeline's convent, burdened by exposition and unnecessary detail.

It's made up of a lot of ingredients you love (Robert Downey Jr., Joss Whedon's snarky wit, massive visual effects, explosions), some you don't (a third dimension, roughly 20 minutes of unnecessary and dragged-out exposition, what feels like the entire third act of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"), and winds up being perfectly acceptable as summer entertainment.

In that sense it marks a slight step up from its predecessor, given that An Unexpected Journey was saddled with a treasure trove of exposition and explication that's largely unnecessary here.

Enough exposition.

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