precis

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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

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

“Indivisible” was a bullet-pointed précis of the tactics the document’s authors had seen work against them — a guide to getting to “No.”

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2017

Copies or a précis of the Minutes of the Council to be regularly transmitted to the Queen.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Benson, Arthur Christopher