In a sentence
Six example sentences with exegesis, each labelled with its topic.
Her exegesis of the opening chapter runs sixty pages and still leaves the last paragraph unexplained.
Literature
Medieval scholars built an entire exegesis around one ambiguous line, and later thinkers argued with it for centuries.
Philosophy
The monastery's copyists left an exegesis in the margins, so we know how they understood each difficult passage.
History
The court's exegesis of the commerce clause ran forty pages before it reached the facts of the case.
Law
Pundits offered a line-by-line exegesis of the speech, finding hidden meaning in a pause that was probably a cough.
Politics
The conductor's exegesis of the libretto, delivered to the cast at the first rehearsal, changed how every aria was sung.
Music
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