"summary" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Set in the winter garden of a chateau in the spring of 1912, "Ring Round the Moon" has only a trifle of a plot, but what there is defies easy summary.
- Mr. Berney's plots defy summary.
- One branch leads to the "classified documents" on Deutch's computer while the other tracks the official response to the discovery, a complex, detailed account of who said what to whom that defies easy summary or firm judgment.
- "Indeed, Li'l Abner incorporates such a panoply of characters and ideas that it defies summary," according to cultural historian Anthony Harkins.
- His novels, too, defy summary, because they are not at all plotty and their structure is so subtle it is hardly apparent.
- It's a rhetorical question, of course, but the problems of "National Security" are extensive enough to defy summary in the available space.
- The narrative structure, never simple, has grown so convoluted as to defy brief summary.
- We are left with a mass of facts, suspicions, hypotheses and proliferating subplots, which defies easy summary; but I think it is fair to say that Mr. Costello has three basic contentions.
- The typically knotty story defies simple summary: a tyrant king covets his wife's brother's wife and begins a frivolous war; the brother and sister, through their devotion and fidelity, usher in an era of understanding.
- The lyrics are often fragmentary and associative, defying summary yet full of epiphanies.
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