apercu

[ US /ˈæpɝˌsu/ ]
NOUN
  1. a short synopsis
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How To Use apercu In A Sentence

  • When I shared this aperçu with Spencer, he dismissed it: "I think you misread Hadley if you ascribe to her such beguiling powers. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
  • Du coup ce matin en matant mes sublimes jambes ben j'ai apercu d'innombrables griffures ... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • His final chapter is the best: a reading of superheroes in their various urban environments that is studded with lovely aperçus.
  • Clearly, Porter agreed with Somerset Maugham's aperçu: ‘Money is like a sixth sense, without which one cannot make use of the other five.’
  • Paglia's claims are not some inconsequential little thrown-off aperçu, whose validity doesn't matter enough to investigate.
  • An Irish History of Civilization reads like a sotto voce commentary on all Akenson's manifold interests, spun into a series of aperçus, short stories, reflections, mini-biographies and explosive jokes.
  • I shall post some aperçus from my sojourn over the next few days.
  • Dons in uniform like R. W. Chapman and John Sparrow, when they weren't cracking codes at Bletchley Park, exchanged erudite aperçus about textual minutiae in Trollope's novels.
  • Yet Jerry, relatively uneducated as he is, still summons up enough zesty bons mots and aperçus to complement the more roughly hewn passages.
  • As proof he refers to the ‘close kinship of many of Nietzsche's aperçus with the far from vain tilts against morality with which, at approximately the same time, Oscar Wilde was shocking and amusing his public.’
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