conspectus

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Theirs is a reflective hanging, full of aesthetic surprises, and the most sensible way to make the best of an incomplete conspectus that is, nevertheless, well sprinkled with masterpieces.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its conspectus of ceramics is quite good, but it's weaker in furniture.

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In terms of sheer quality, this show can claim to be the greatest conspectus of Chinese art ever held in America.

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The conspectus of styles, manners and approaches in the show is somewhat muffled by the lack of key paintings by fundamental masters of realism like Courbet or Honore Daumier.

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In one conspectus, the position at the beginning of the action was this:— and at the end of it this:— Now let us follow the details of the fight which brought about such a result.

From The Battle of Blenheim by Belloc, Hilaire