capitulation

How To Use capitulation In A Sentence

• The editorial begins with a recapitulation of the basic argument marshaled by the Bush administration regarding his past actions while on the board of directors of Harken Energy.
• The candidate concluded his recitation with an abbreviated recapitulation of the subdivisions of the five principal topics.
• After the second climax, the music slows with a recapitulation of the opening theme and then fades to nothing.
• We are dealing with an absolutist culture that demands total capitulation or nothing.
• In this passage, Oothoon's rhetoric of purity and defilement reveals her unwitting capitulation to Theotormon's ascetic dualism (which opposes chastity to harlotry), while her use of the verb "rend" in her instruction to Theotormon's eagles implies, most appallingly, an invited repetition of Bromion's act of rape. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
• During a ride to a natural tank amongst these rocky elevations, I passed from the alluvium to the sandstone, and at once met with all the prevailing plants of the granite, gneiss, limestone and hornstone rocks previously examined, and which I have enumerated too often to require recapitulation; a convincing proof that the mechanical properties and not the chemical constitution of the rocks regulate the distribution of these plants. Himalayan Journals — Complete
• A very similar effect occurs at the start of the recapitulation.
• Freud focused on psychosexual development, seeing adolescence as a recapitulation of the development of sexual awareness in infancy.
• The work in which he summarizes his perspective, is a recapitulation of various articles published earlier, but here we see much more cohesion.
• In the military sense capitulation provides a means to end conflict, either at local or a wider level.