1. commentary - Noun
2. commentary - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy entire soul is a cry, and all my work the commentary on that cry. Nikos Kazantzakis
You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever. David Fincher
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. Jorge Luis Borges
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done. Benjamin N. Cardozo