(1) Second, doctrinal instruction need not oppose expository preaching, for it can rest on solid interpretation and can supplement such preaching.(2) Windy expository passages drag down the narrative while plot points dead-end and several characters go virtually undeveloped.(3) In each issue users will find an article covering some base of creative or expository writing.(4) Instead of poetic diction, we have expository prose.(5) The passages are roughly similar in length to the expository passages described earlier.(6) In these, the last years of his life, he wrote often, sometimes a teasing postcard, sometimes an expository letter six pages long.(7) 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.(8) Some have compared her editing technique, with its expository gaps and elliptical cutting, to jazz improvisation, since it has a decidedly rhythmic, musical quality.(9) The story described an expository account of a college student's series of encounters with spiders.(10) The inversion of this is certainly true: the best expository writing is controversial, argumentative or polemical, as well as explanatory.(11) For want of a better adjective, the prose is very expository .(12) 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.(13) Oddly for such a visual director, he lays out the themes in clumsy, expository dialogue instead of just showing us.(14) The series followed a conventional expository format with reconstructions illustrating an investigation into why certain species had expired.(15) 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.(16) I am not interested in being a descriptive and expository writer.
