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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. -- G. H. Hardy
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. -- G. H. Hardy
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender. -- Akhil Sharma
I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate. -- Anson Mount
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. -- William Butler Yeats
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. -- Louis Dudek
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. -- John Searle
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc. -- Richard Bausch
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story. -- Hugo Gernsback
I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition. -- Mark Billingham
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more. -- Barbara Jordan
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage. -- Terry Pratchett
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. -- A. R. Ammons
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. -- P. T. Barnum
The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no pesky nuances and almost no background about the series' continuing characters - just the hard nuts and bolts of pure storytelling. -- Tom Shales
There were a bunch of things we really liked right off the bat about a police precinct. We loved how instantly relatable it was. We loved how little exposition was required to tell people who these guys were and what they were doing. -- Daniel J. Goor
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed. -- Steve Albini
I could make you read the entire quadrant exposition again...BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK. -- Andrew Hussie
Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next. -- David Mamet
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition. -- Libba Bray
I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition. -- Bryan Fuller
Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck. -- Bertrand Russell
I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it. -- Jillian Bell
The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word. -- O. S. Hawkins
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them. -- Manuel Puig
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it. -- Karl Barth
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself -- John Searle
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." -- Leon Trotsky
No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls. -- David Brainerd
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant. -- Sufjan Stevens
Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel. -- Peter Julian Eymard
When you think about it there's never really been a realistic exposition of Hollywood, I mean - from the inside - showing Hollywood what it can do, what it has done, to people. -- Jessica Lange
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application. -- William Strunk, Jr.
History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots. -- Michel-Rolph Trouillot
To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal. -- Akhil Sharma

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