Definition of Commentary

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Commentary

A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.

A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

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Commentary Quotations

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
Shel Silverstein

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.
Abigail Van Buren

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
Dana Carvey

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
Nikos Kazantzakis

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
Jacques Lacan

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
Murray Walker

Commentary Translations

commentary in Dutch is nabeschouwing
commentary in German is Kommentar
commentary in Italian is relazione
commentary in Swedish is kommentar

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