"Basically I'm good for only one thing: to take the blame," he says in summing up his life.

At another point: "Just a few scattered moments, she thought, have a way of summing up a person's life.

It's a comment that could sum up her working life at the moment.

Her ability to sum up a young girl's life in ten minutes is remarkable.

These paintings seem in certain ways to sum up his life.

She says summing up her son's life so neatly will be agonizing.

John Kitto summed up his life with the following words:

He wanted to tell Picard something, some final words to sum up his life.

The local newspaper summed up his life with the simple but glowing lines:

How can one sum up a loved one's life in twenty minutes?