précis
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Props, scripts, costumes and even a replica of the trailer from 1972’s “Pink Flamingos” serve as an immersive, chronological précis of Waters’s cinematic work.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2023
A brief, tactful summary may be in order, a kind of Google Maps précis of the route.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2022
It made you précis in a really creative way.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2020
A zippy 1967 film by Jacques Tati, “Playtime,” has a scene that serves as a clean précis for “Figure It Out’s” credo.
From Washington Post • May 11, 2020
It reads more like an excessively uninspired précis of a larger work than like anything else—a précis in which all the literary merit has, with unvarying infelicity, been omitted.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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English Words Derived from French, List 11
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Vocabulary from the Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, Volume I
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