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exposition

In music, the opening statement of piece in sonata form, in which the principal themes are clearly outlined.



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these scenes are swallowed whole by a general perspective -- no different than her 2005 effort "Sabah" -- that veers towards orientalism, augmented with Siddig's trite and overbearingly expositive lines that are chiefly comprised of "In Egypt, we do this, in Egypt, we do that.
While they refer to research to support the notion that '96% of the text found on the Internet is expositive rather than narrative,' the fact that this 1998 research is now nine years old might leave some readers wondering if such a high percentage of non-fiction texts on the web is still the case.
If the Conclusiones and the Apologia thus stand apart from Pico's other works, they do so in large part because of the exigencies of expositive clarity, conceptual distinctions, and terminological precision, which forced the use of Scholastic language already
 
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