conspectus

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

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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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In terms of sheer quality, this show can claim to be the greatest conspectus of Chinese art ever held in America.

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The conspectus, which brings into one view the titles, dates, places and printers' names, will serve also as a sufficient index.

From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Van Name, Addison