Verb (used without object), : to expatiate upon a theme. From Dictionary.com.
He merely cites one passage — no more, no less — and declares the book dead, without even casual expatiation. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Queenan: Incurious Harbinger of Death : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
Since July 1, 1898, expatiation on the cowardice and lack of skill of the Spanish soldier has ceased to be a profitable literary occupation. From Wordnik.com. [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference
So I recall this: the story of the violin music being told and Granddad plunging into the midst of the tale with an expatiation on Paganini. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
For such subjects the romance, with its almost unlimited powers of expatiation, is the proper vehicle, but they are unfitted for music; they necessitate wearisome explanations of complicated motives altogether foreign to the direct emotional character of musical drama. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
If you expect to feel any emotion or any interest you will not experience it in the long details of a war, the subject of which is very dry and the expressions bombastic, but if you would have bold ideas, an eloquent expatiation on sublime and philosophical courage, Lucan is the only one among the ancients in whom you will meet with it. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
His field is illimitable; his expatiation in it is practically untrammelled. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
Gower Woodseer's engagement with the girl Madge was a happier subject for expatiation and agreement. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
His brother-in-law paused in the middle of an expatiation on the business opportunities of the neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 44] Reference
Berry's expatiation on art is parallel to defining craft, through which engaged, craft respects its natural limits in order to "enrich" not. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
She went, however, in good time, before Madge could return home; she did not want to hear the outflow of description and expatiation which might be expected. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody] Reference
However, the director's presence amounted to not much more than a long-winded expatiation on the development process and backstory of Avatar -- sans any form of gameplay footage. From Wordnik.com. [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference
On the fork, it was silken, more tender than a prime filet, and to the tongue it delivered extreme unction, an expatiation of carnivorous sins, a path straight to gustatory nirvana. From Wordnik.com. [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference
The expatiation on the loveliness of a well-ordered interior may strike the impatient modern as somewhat long, and the movement as very slow, just as people complain of the same things in Goethe's. From Wordnik.com. [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference
To attain to this height it was needful that there should be no aimless expatiation of the intellect, no facile diffusion of the sympathies over the wide field of human activity and human character. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
The expatiation was long and the movement slow, because Rousseau was full of his thoughts; they were a deep and glowing part of himself, and did not merely skim swiftly and lightly through his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference
This brought out a witticism to the effect that such recognition would savor less of gallantry if more than a page or two, in so large a volume, had been reserved for expatiation upon the tuneful sisterhood. From Wordnik.com. [0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
So was I summoned to the King, and the King discoursed with me -- I with him, in fair fluency; he in ejaculations of desire to have sight of thee, I in expatiation on that he would see when he had his desire. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference
Believe me, gentlemen, good workmanship consists in continence and common sense, more than in frantic expatiation of mechanical ingenuity; and if you would be continent and rational, you had better learn more of. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
As to the book itself, its florid expatiation could neither offend nor injure a boy like Robert, while its representation of our Lord was to him a wonderful relief from that given in the pulpit, and in all the religious books he knew. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
And as a keen eye for the imagery attendant on a word is essential to all writing, whether prose or poetry, that attempts the heart, so languor of the visual faculty can work disaster even in the calm periods of philosophic expatiation. From Wordnik.com. [Style] Reference
There's a good deal of deception and bitchery, and oodles of explanation, expiation, and expatiation, none of which clears the playing field satisfactorily but turns the play into a two-hours-plus wordfest, with only a smidgen of action. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But the general shortcomings (as they have been admitted to be) in the whole of the second quarter of the century (or a little less) with us, were but natural results of the inevitable expatiation, unsystematic and irresolute, over the newly discovered provinces. From Wordnik.com. [The English Novel] Reference
Edmund's powers of illustration, explanation, and expatiation could not indeed be questioned; but then the subjects selected for the exhibition of those powers were very far indeed from being obvious, evident, or commonplace, and the attorney's heart grew heavy within him. From Wordnik.com. [Obiter Dicta Second Series] Reference
I cannot, however, make the comparison accurate in all respects, for I am obliged to set the restricted type of the Aphrodite Urania of the Greeks beside the universal Deity conceived by the Italian as governing the air, earth, and sea; nevertheless the restriction in the mind of the Greek, and expatiation in that of the Florentine, are both characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
I cannot, however, make the comparison accurate in all respects, for I am obliged to set the restricted type of the Aphrodite Urania of the Greeks beside the universal Deity conceived by the Italian as governing the air, earth, and sea; nevertheless, the restriction in the mind of the Greek, and expatiation in that of the Florentine, are both characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870] Reference
"expatriation is a death event" tax statutes and creates the "corporate expatiation is death event" tax, treating the corporate departure from the United States as a sale of all assets and leveling a tax on the hypothetical gains. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
And when the session was over, I ran into the delightful Martin Schneider (of Emdashes; he has offered his own report), who had offered his own question concerning DFW's tricks (I would highly advise reading Schneider's report if you are interested not only in Wood's response, but the exceedingly polite way in which Wood answered questions from the audience, including one bald gentleman, unrelated to the guy in the subway who punched me and not as well-groomed as Mr. Schwartz, who went on and on and on about Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols" before the patient Wood found a pocket of time with which to quell this bald guy's relentless Fidel Castro-like expatiation). From Wordnik.com. [Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits] Reference
22 minutes ago, -0/+1buired for pendatic expatiation. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
There is no expatiation beyond these terms. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The expansive expatiation of Maravairi Ramani Manju Bhashini (70th Melakartha. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Not for him, on the whole, is the detached action, the rounded figure, the scenic rendering of a story; as surely as Dickens tended towards the theatre, with its clear-cut isolation of events and episodes, its underlining of the personal and the individual in men and women, so Thackeray preferred the manner of musing expatiation, where scene melts into scene, impressions are foreshortened by distance, and the backward-ranging thought can linger and brood as it will. From Wordnik.com. [The Craft of Fiction] Reference
One result of such elementary education is, however, already certain; namely, that the pleasure which we may conceive taken by the children of the coming time, in the analysis of physical corruption, guides, into fields more dangerous and desolate, the expatiation of imaginative literature: and that the reactions of moral disease upon itself, and the conditions of languidly monstrous character developed in an atmosphere of low vitality, have become the most valued material of modern fiction, and the most eagerly discussed texts of modern philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
One result of such elementary education is, however, already certain; namely, that the pleasure which we may conceive taken by the children of the coming time, in the analysis of physical corruption, guides, into fields more dangerous and desolate, the expatiation of an imaginative literature: and that the reactions of moral disease upon itself, and the conditions of languidly monstrous character developed in an atmosphere of low vitality, have become the most valued material of modern fiction, and the most eagerly discussed texts of modern philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
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