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.

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Its conspectus of painting, sculpture, architecture and photography, representing the last half of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century in France, is definitive.

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

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I shall never attain on earth—perhaps I never shall in any world attain—to any complete conspectus of the variously interwoven streams of vitality which are, in fact, obscurely present in my conception of myself.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)