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  • Nonetheless, as they navigated the deserted corridors, Trish gave him a general synopsis of the SMSC's purpose and function, including the various pods and their contents.†  (source)
  • To comply with discovery rules, Jordan handed Diana a synopsis of Josie's testimony as she was walking up to the stand.†  (source)
  • He reads the synopsis.†  (source)
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  • After the first month he began to number the letters and to head them with a synopsis of the previous ones, as in the serialized novels in the newspapers, for fear that Fermina Daza would not realize that they had a certain continuity.†  (source)
  • At Knopf: my editor, Michelle Frey, who did an awesome job of helping me to clean up and tighten the manuscript (the first draft wasmuch longer); associate editor Michele Burke, who also labored over the editing and who helped pull together the synopsis ofEragon andEldest; head of communications and marketing Judith Haut, who from the beginning spread word of the series throughout the land; publicity director Christine Labov; art director Isabel Warren-Lynch and her team for again putting together such a classy-looking book; John Jude Palencar for a majestic cover painting (I don't know how he can top it with the fourth book!)†  (source)
  • It was, as Warren doubtless appreciated, about as concise a synopsis of Adams's course through public life as could be found.†  (source)
  • I read straight through his other love-from-afar: the Victrola Book of the Opera, with opera after opera in synopsis, with portraits in costume of Melba, Caruso, Galli-Curci, and Geraldine Farrar, some of whose voices we could listen to on our Red Seal records.†  (source)
  • Sir Phillip Goodall, the director of C.S.I.R.O., produced a synopsis of the messages monitored since the war.†  (source)
  • —Yes, sitting there in Grandfather's office trying to explain with that patient amazed recapitulation, not to Grandfather and not to himself because Grandfather said that his very calmness was indication that he had long since given up any hope of ever understanding it, but trying to explain to circumstance, to fate itself, the logical steps by which he had arrived at a result absolutely and forever incredible, repeating the clear and simple synopsis of his history (which he and Grandfather both now knew) as if he were trying to explain it to an intractable and unpredictable child: 'You see, I had a design in my mind.†  (source)
  • Literature is therefore to have its own volume, which is to contain, as solace and advice for those who suffer, a synopsis and short analysis of all masterpieces of world literature dealing with every such conflict.†  (source)
  • The lore which he was believed to pass his days brooding upon so that it had rapt him from the companionship of youth was only a garner of slender sentences from Aristotle's poetics and psychology and a SYNOPSIS PHILOSOPHIAE SCHOLASTICAE AD MENTEM DIVI THOMAE.†  (source)
  • I mean the synopsis at the head of each chapter, explaining away the real nature of that rhapsody.†  (source)
  • Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a paragraph at the blackboard, his English teacher had stepped to his side and attempted to guide his hand.†  (source)
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