summing up

NOUN
  1. a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
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How To Use summing up In A Sentence

  • In keeping with his preface to the story, Dioneo's summing up seems deliberately to discourage any reading of the story as an exemplum, much less as a model for relationships between men and women.
  • The best way of summing up the situation in our office is to say that it is 'absolute chaos'.
  • ‘He's no junk male,’ she trills in one commercial, summing up a campaign that recycles the same gag.
  • Summing up the results of analysis and encyclopedia definitions and concretizing them on the basis of appropriate subjects of military engineering, we can decide on the following interpretation.
  • History becomes emblematic, congealed into an array of postures, each summing up a whole community across the ages.
  • Both sides have sought in recent days to hook jurors by summing up four months of testimony in a few catchy slogans.
  • They also unequivocally demonstrate that noticeable change can emerge on its own by summing up the steady unnoticeable work of incremental deletions of the unfit.
  • Kaufmann's voice was at both its most limber and controlled here, his delivery achieving subtle colorations in the work's atmospheric hothouses, as with his nearly vibrato-less "Ich hab' im Traum geweinet" (I wept in my dream), his plangent "Aus alten Märchen winkt es" (From old fairy tales beckons...), and the oaken darkness of his "Die alten, bösen Lieder" (the old, angry songs), summing up the poet's journey. Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera
  • Refusing to monumentalize, disdaining the "final word", the precise "summing up", acknowledging their "poor power to add or detract", his words signal deference to the uncapturability of the life it mourns. Nobel Lecture
  • Which seemed an apposite way of summing up Spain's lack of penetration. Times, Sunday Times
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