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Definition of expository in English: expositoryadjective ɪksˈpɒzɪtriɪkˈspɑzɪˌtɔri Intended to explain or describe something. Example sentencesExamples - Instead of poetic diction, we have expository prose.
- The passages are roughly similar in length to the expository passages described earlier.
- Still, as one expository chapter follows another, with technically correct but rather dull repetitions of what has been said before, one begins to speculate about how to improve matters.
- But for each little detail neatly answered within the film's overly expository dialogue, there are five glaring questions that go unanswered.
- Such work may, for expository purposes, be described at three levels: organisational, group and individual.
- In college, I enjoyed composition and expository writing and achieved my highest grades in those classes.
- The inessential stuff between scenes, the transitions and build-ups and detailed expository explanations, are mainly not there - or only as much as they need to be.
- Second, doctrinal instruction need not oppose expository preaching, for it can rest on solid interpretation and can supplement such preaching.
- I am not interested in being a descriptive and expository writer.
- Windy expository passages drag down the narrative while plot points dead-end and several characters go virtually undeveloped.
- In these, the last years of his life, he wrote often, sometimes a teasing postcard, sometimes an expository letter six pages long.
- The inversion of this is certainly true: the best expository writing is controversial, argumentative or polemical, as well as explanatory.
- In each issue users will find an article covering some base of creative or expository writing.
- Oddly for such a visual director, he lays out the themes in clumsy, expository dialogue instead of just showing us.
- For want of a better adjective, the prose is very expository.
- John Baez is a mathematical physicist working on quantum gravity, who has become well-known for his wonderful expository articles on all sorts of physics topics.
- The series followed a conventional expository format with reconstructions illustrating an investigation into why certain species had expired.
- I blog because it's a way for me to practise my expository writing and get exposure for all my creative and non-creative output.
- The story described an expository account of a college student's series of encounters with spiders.
- Some have compared her editing technique, with its expository gaps and elliptical cutting, to jazz improvisation, since it has a decidedly rhythmic, musical quality.
Synonyms explanatory, descriptive, describing, elucidatory, elucidative, explicatory, explicative, interpretative, illustrative, illuminating rare exegetic, hermeneutic
Rhymes depositary, depository, suppository Definition of expository in US English: expositoryadjectiveɪkˈspɑzɪˌtɔriikˈspäziˌtôrē Intended to explain or describe something. Example sentencesExamples - In these, the last years of his life, he wrote often, sometimes a teasing postcard, sometimes an expository letter six pages long.
- In college, I enjoyed composition and expository writing and achieved my highest grades in those classes.
- The story described an expository account of a college student's series of encounters with spiders.
- The passages are roughly similar in length to the expository passages described earlier.
- But for each little detail neatly answered within the film's overly expository dialogue, there are five glaring questions that go unanswered.
- I blog because it's a way for me to practise my expository writing and get exposure for all my creative and non-creative output.
- Oddly for such a visual director, he lays out the themes in clumsy, expository dialogue instead of just showing us.
- In each issue users will find an article covering some base of creative or expository writing.
- The inessential stuff between scenes, the transitions and build-ups and detailed expository explanations, are mainly not there - or only as much as they need to be.
- Some have compared her editing technique, with its expository gaps and elliptical cutting, to jazz improvisation, since it has a decidedly rhythmic, musical quality.
- Instead of poetic diction, we have expository prose.
- I am not interested in being a descriptive and expository writer.
- Second, doctrinal instruction need not oppose expository preaching, for it can rest on solid interpretation and can supplement such preaching.
- Such work may, for expository purposes, be described at three levels: organisational, group and individual.
- John Baez is a mathematical physicist working on quantum gravity, who has become well-known for his wonderful expository articles on all sorts of physics topics.
- Windy expository passages drag down the narrative while plot points dead-end and several characters go virtually undeveloped.
- The inversion of this is certainly true: the best expository writing is controversial, argumentative or polemical, as well as explanatory.
- For want of a better adjective, the prose is very expository.
- Still, as one expository chapter follows another, with technically correct but rather dull repetitions of what has been said before, one begins to speculate about how to improve matters.
- The series followed a conventional expository format with reconstructions illustrating an investigation into why certain species had expired.
Synonyms explanatory, descriptive, describing, elucidatory, elucidative, explicatory, explicative, interpretative, illustrative, illuminating
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