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  • The book defies reasonable synopsis since its strength is not in plot points and symbolism, but in the rich texture of the writing.
  • What the American Ambassador said in introducing me, as well as a synopsis of what I said, was widely published in England and in the American papers at the time.   (source)
  • A week after that, a national tabloid offered a fervid synopsis of what had happened, headed: TRAGIC BATTLE IN MAINE AS MOM BATTLES KILLER SAINT BERNARD.†   (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)
  • Some of the work beyond this segment has been completed, but there is much more to be done-my brief synopsis of the action to follow suggests a length ap-proaching 3000 pages, perhaps more.†   (source)
  • He watches Wheelock-light-skinned, with stylishly thin bifocals on the end of a small, thin nose-going through a brief synopsis of the plot.†   (source)
  • Somewhere inside I know all of those things, and there is no need of an argument, or a synopsis, or an outline (outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses).†   (source)
  • I believe that I probably owe readers who have come this far with me some sort of synopsis ("the argument," those great old romantic poets would have called it) of what is to come, since I'll almost surely die before completing the entire novel..., or epic...or whatever you'd call it.†   (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)
  • I mean the synopsis at the head of each chapter, explaining away the real nature of that rhapsody.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • What the American Ambassador said in introducing me, as well as a synopsis of what I said, was widely published in England and in the American papers at the time.†   (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)
  • A flash of eagerness suffused the face of Alexey Alexandrovitch as he rapidly wrote out a synopsis of these ideas for his own benefit.†   (source)
  • The Educational scheme or Course established by Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt may be resolved into the following synopsis.†   (source)
  • Over his untastable apology for a cup of coffee, listening to this synopsis of things in general, Stephen stared at nothing in particular.†   (source)
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