0 a Latin expression that refers to a story, or the action of a play, etc. starting without any introduction:
Something of this kind can be observed in the many incipits that begin in medias res.
The countervailing stance is to proceed in medias res with a prospective, intently co-participatory "ante-" vantage point of contingency and openness.
It is of no avail to know of law if one cannot or does not recognise in medias res the existence of an actual legal reason for action.
I should add that these figures are not yet definite, as we are still in medias res.
Occasionally adaptations of source material may employ "in medias res" while the original version did not.
Some stories like this "do" begin "in medias res" but that is not what makes them so.
In an "in medias res" narrative, the story opens with dramatic action rather than exposition setting up the characters and situation.
The story begins "in medias res" with this opening.
