conspectus

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

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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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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 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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For a conspectus of events in his career, see the Tables of Contents in each volume.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan