precis

A neat precis of Pakistan's World Cup campaign, overall.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

"The performances are accomplished. Norton gives us a soul broken into fragments. The play, inevitably can only deliver a precis of a book that sprawls over some 700 pages."

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2023

In character as Bobby, the museum’s chief curator, Eichner gave a brief precis of Hirschfeld’s career, finishing with an ad-lib, “Tragically, he’s also my type.”

From New York Times ● May 18, 2022

And there let me stop, even though Connington’s provocative and suspenseful novel includes much more than I’ve touched on in this partial precis.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2021

“That document, you understand,” said Poirot, “is a mere precis of the evidence we heard, arranged that way for convenience.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

They named Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein and Lemony Snicket before moving on to a précis of Joy Williams’ flash fiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

As a précis to a larger, more scholarly work, it lacks the depth and historical context that many enthusiasts of classical drama may be hungry for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

I dug around in my daypack and found the précis to Nietzsche’s mature philosophy, “The Antichrist,” published in 1898, years after he supposedly went insane.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2018

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 George Saintsbury