After the furore which greeted our first Report I felt - perhaps pusillanimously - that we should excise this explanatory passage.

This is introduced with a short explanatory passage:

But the practice of prefixing explanatory passages is utterly at variance with such unity.

There is an attractive bias in the explanatory passages toward making the words accessible to the largest possible audience.

These collections contain introductions and explanatory passages by the author.

Mr. Eyre's sparing yet effective use of voice-over smoothly adapts Shakespeare's explanatory passages for the screen.

Many of the explanatory passages in both works are almost identical.

In a crucial explanatory passage the narrator tells us: This marks a great step in Lok's intellectual development.

Though there has always been conspicuous talk in pictures - voice-overs, explanatory passages, political speeches and other forms of volubility - a kind of New Talk is now more prominent than the Old Talk.

A more explanatory passage on the nature of the wizards is found at the end of The Silmarillion.