How To Use Synopsis In A Sentence
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Is that abbreviation a true synopsis of the intent of the Amendment?
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He had enough enthusiasm about the project to convince me to write a synopsis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Specifically, it scans the log files and generates a synopsis of which accounts have been used and when.
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In such cases we request that authors submit a synopsis of the review to the Editorial Office for consideration by the Board.
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My necessarily abridged synopsis of the play does a complicated and layered work little justice, so you'll have to just take my word that this is a masterful production that has it all.
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As this brief synopsis should make clear, Viladesau's book is full of tantalizing lines of thought and many interesting sidetracks.
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For you who are fresh faces and were not here last year, or just didn't care enough to read The Peak, I will give you a brief synopsis.
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Let me attempt to provide a synopsis: A black kid picks up one of those picture-viewer dealies and sees some orange dudes with frosted tips and pooka shells singing a song on the beach singing… to him? what the hell is going on?
THE TOP 15 FRI FREE FOR ALL CLIPS OF 2008
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If you scroll to the airport, it gives you just a brief synopsis of delays, the departures and weather conditions.
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The synopsis is, unsurprisingly, a rehash of the commercially successful film franchise.
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Before critiquing the author's work, a brief synopsis of the article is necessary.
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Investigation, or of what should be inquired first and what last; sixthly, of the Limits of Investigation, or a synopsis of all natures in the universe; seventhly, of the
The New Organon
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A brief synopsis: A brilliant game designer has recently passed away and upon his death, an unknown daemon is loosed upon an unsuspecting world.
REVIEW: Daemon by Daniel Suarez
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Synopsis: The details are still being kept under wraps, but if the Paranormal Activity 2 trailer is anything to judge by, we'll be seeing more demonic home invasion caught on "amateur home video.
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She bribed me with pasta and blackmailed me into writing a synopsis on my last night in Hawaii.
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That's an overview of the movie with an introduction of the characters and a brief synopsis.
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It usually takes a good number of rewrites of the plot synopsis to get all such issues straight.
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Synopsis There are some factors that cause the formation hot strip side - camber in the rolling process.
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Synopsis: A planetologist, working at a site that shows signs of alien life, finds that she cannot escape her mysterious past.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #24 edited by Gardner Dozois
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In some form or another, I will allow that most of you are very aware of the story, so my synopsis will be most assuredly brief.
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I would hope that they start the movie with a synopsis of what has happened before, explaining the colonization, first fall, genetic engineering, and the slow rise and fall of mankind and dragonkind on Pern.
Pern Movie!
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Bitch Slap" follows three badass women -- described in the synopsis as "a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker" -- who venture into the desert with the intention of extorting hundreds of millions of dollars from a gang kingpin.
EXCLUSIVE: The Ladies Of ‘Bitch Slap’ Get Down And Dirty In These Stills » MTV Movies Blog
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He wrote in a book synopsis that the experiment had worked and that he'd discovered the only route to real happiness.
Times, Sunday Times
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We design ourselves a plot synopsis, announce the intended cast and production team, maybe get crazy whatshisface to write something for us.
QUENTIN TARANTINO HAS LOST HIS MIND
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A brief synopsis of the lithology, age, and paleoenvironment and associated fauna are given for each unit.
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I read a synopsis of the final episode last night.
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Her substantive and entertaining synopsis of classical references to Druids should serve both as an introduction to laymen and a useful refresher for Celticists.
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He refused to give a synopsis.
Times, Sunday Times
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To better inform the story, here is a brief synopsis of my Mexican food experience up to that point.
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Here is a representative synopsis of current opinion.
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For those of you joining us mid-series, this checklist is intended less to help any aspiring writer who might happen to stumble upon it to create a jim-dandy synopsis from scratch, but to improve an already-existing draft.
Author! Author! » 2009 » September
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Synopsis: An anthropologist is stranded on a small Pacific island whose only inhabitant is a mechanical mining machine that is remotely controlled by Annie, a 12 year old autistic girl who is using the machine as a form of therapy.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #22 edited by Gardner Dozois
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Expert bug-hunter William Bellow must find the cyberspace bug that is killing its users.
REVIEW: Prime by Nate Kenyon
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Synopsis: Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers.
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Trying to provide a synopsis of this film is like recounting your week.
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Look, it sounds impossibly maudlin if you read the synopsis of this film.
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Last night when the vertigo-induced nausea was making it hard to sleep, the brain obliged by writing a big chunk of [cue ominous pipe organ music here] the dreaded synopsis.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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Doubtless many talk-show hosts simply read the synopsis on the cover.
Times, Sunday Times
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The following is a brief synopsis of the quagmire we would be entering.
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I originally intended to attempt to give a plot synopsis of this film, but it's so confusing I might just not bother.
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Centaurs on a planet fight for survival when their sun comes too close to their planet making it unhabitable.
Reviews of the 1975 Do-Over Project: A Klausnerian Effort
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I won't attempt a plot synopsis, as every such attempt is doomed to abject failure.
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This synopsis makes the film sound like a depressing cautionary tale but it isn't.
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A man who repossesses artificial organs must flee from the organization that employs him when he cannot pay for his own artificial heart.
March 2010
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A boy of a foreign dignitary is almost killed while in Gotham City, and Batman recieves unexpected aid from Green Arrow.
July 2006
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The following are titles, screening venues, show times and a synopsis of the films to be screened on Saturday.
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A brief synopsis of each of the mix elements is given below, and returned to for a fuller discussion in the following chapters.
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The issue provides a brief synopsis of each topic with links to the information on-line.
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Synopsis: A stingy merchant hires a trainee from the College and Order of Heralds to assist with alien languages and customs on a trade run to the low-tech planet Lyra.
REVIEW: The Good Old Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois
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Synopsis: An chiaroscurist - an artist who specializes in monotone pictures which highlight might and shadow - sculpts the face of god in a monastery.
4/06 UPDATE: My New Year's Resolution
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The libretto contains an essay, a synopsis, and texts in English and transliterated Russian.
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Even with the aid of a glossary, a synopsis and a published text, I found large tracts of Marcia Layne's first play impenetrable.
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I use the term teach advisedly, because it is often quite helpful for synopsis writers to think of the task as producing a course overview for the lesson that is the book’s content: how will this book help readers, and what kind of readers will it help?
Author! Author! » 2009 » September
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Matt Yglesias at Think Progress has a good synopsis of a new Democracy article that both points out the importance of metropolitan regions to the nation's economic health and warns that current governance structures - really, federalism as we know it now - are constraining the combustive (in a good way) capacity of these areas.
Harry Moroz: Not Your Mother's Federalism
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Combined with Synopsis Golden Chamber, this ar ˉ ticle explores the application of this method by ZHANG Zhong - jing.
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Scruffmcgruff dude diddy's face on that picture is one of the more terrifying looks i've ever witnessed. bring this flick on. also, the plot synopsis decribing aldous as "walking sex.
Get Him to the Greek: One Week Earlier | /Film
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Synopsis: When a member of a scientific team assigned to study chimpanzees is diagnosed with leukemia, the scientists decide to teach the chimps about death.
REVIEW: Galileo's Children edited by Gardner Dozois
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That is a lot to pack in, and reading the synopsis first is advisable.
Times, Sunday Times
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A advance synopsis of the programme on the website of CTVC, the production company that made it, revealed the animus that lay behind it.
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However I have completed the treatment for the VIking Heist Movie (it's a shortish document including a brief description of theme, characters, setting and a synopsis).
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Synopsis: When a mental patient is discovered with his brain exposed, the Fringe team — Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and Walter Bishop (John Noble) — are shocked to learn that the patient has become more sane.
‘Fringe’ Episode 2.10 Recap: ‘Grey Matters’ » MTV Movies Blog
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The first DVD also includes a five-minute illustrated synopsis of the plot and a cast gallery.
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Gorgias Press will publish a printed edition of the interlinear, a text edition with facing English translation reader's edition, a lectionary of the Gospels and Epistles, a bilingual synopsis of the four Gospels, and possibly other derivative works.
The Syriac Interlinear Project
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Mk., and Lk. have received in scientific theology the common name "Synoptics," because their gospels, in virtue of their far-reaching agreement, may be regarded or "viewed together" with one glance (Synopsis means "common view").
The Johannine Writings
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The trial judge next summarizes the evidence at trial, providing merely a synopsis without comment.
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Synopsis: Captain "Titus" Oates, a British polar explorer, is plucked from the verge of death in 1912 to America in 2045, where aliens called Forties have bestowed time warp technology to humanity.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #19 edited by Gardner Dozois
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Synopsis: Tabitha Jute lands on Umbriel to transport a consignment for an ex-entertainer and meets a group of people who can turn dreams into art pieces.
REVIEW: The Space Opera Renaissance edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
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We give a sort of paraphrastical synopsis of the poem, which, partly in virtue of its disagreeableness, will enable the lovers of the song to return to it with an increase of pleasure.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare
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A plot synopsis is irrelevant, and any detailed discussions of content will undoubtedly spoil it.
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Synopsis: An empath is hired to find a fellow human lost on a forbidden alien planet.
REVIEW: The Good New Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois
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But, back in the day, I could copyedit and block-synopsis/grade a 5-page essay in 10-15 minutes.
I Will Not Read Your F'ing Script
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You are seized by the desire to read a book without someone snatching it from you and demanding a synopsis of the plot.
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Synopsis: An Elizabethan-era censor is visited by a man from the future looking to preserve a seditious play lost to time.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #24 edited by Gardner Dozois
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Softpedia - Windows - All
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Although we will not reveal much about the movie, here's a brief synopsis.
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Synopsis theatre and TV drama are integrated arts.
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Going by the brief synopsis available, this telefilm focuses on sin and its origins in the context of the injustice and violence seen in the world today.
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Even most forms of neorealism don't put much emphasis on plot -- writers having sensibly concluded there's no point in competing with movies for the slam-bang scenario -- and what would be the point of laboriously describing in a synopsis the details of character and setting that the reader simply has to encounter in the finished work?
Principles of Literary Criticism
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Synopsis: Kaz is about to lose his girlfriend Cody to a "bleb", a composite of super-intelligent household items that integrate courtesy of a prevalent computer virus.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #21 edited by Gardner Dozois
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But they may not be quite so loyal when they study the in-depth synopsis of the inquiry.
The Sun
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Brace yourself and deodorise in anticipation of audience interaction as Sweet creates a wake for his stellar-synopsis compiling sibling, which he insists will be "bloody fun" from the outset.
Londonist
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In such cases we request that authors submit a synopsis of the review to the Editorial Office for consideration by the Board.
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: An angry prospector is forced by aliens to hunt someone down.
REVIEW: Hunter's Run by George R.R. Martin, Gardener Dozois, & Daniel Abraham
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I am totally with you Jon on the whole Bay synopsis, my problem is not with that, but rather I was expecting to see a little something different with the sequel, something more than robots galavanting around the global in search of something.
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SYNOPSIS use Finance:: Quote; my $quoter = Finance:: Quote - > new ( "Sberbank"); my % info = $quoter - > fetch ( "sberbank", "SBRF. PD"); # Palladium print "$info { 'SBRF. PD', 'date'} $info { 'SBRF. PD', 'last'}";
Softpedia - Windows - All
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The book is broken into three main sections, beginning with a brief synopsis of the state's long geologic history.
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In the movie, Mr. Fehmiu plays King, "a handsome boxer-turned-barman" who falls for Rosa, "a fiery and untamable beauty in the decaying Serbian town of Bor," according to the movie's synopsis.
A Baker Cooks Up Film for Tribeca
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At the end of the course, students were asked to write a brief synopsis of their experience.
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This text from Acts is probably a synopsis of a sermon given by Peter for the benefit of the Roman centurion, Cornelius, who was a person of faith.
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We were going to question the sense of using a trailer park for Anton Chekov's Ivanov, a 19th century Russian tragedy, until we read a synopsis.
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But their synopsis and descriptions give so much away that the viewer can guess the outcome long before it happens.
Christianity Today
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Synopsis: Akitsu Masanosuke is a timid ronin on his way to Edo from the countryside when he accidentally encounters a playboy named Yaichi, who asks him to be his bodyguard.
Anime Preview: Spring 2010 « Undercover
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As a synopsis, the essay works well to give an overview of two important decades of composition research.
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If this doesn't sound like a very inviting synopsis, you can consult the back of the DVD cover for a more thrilling one: It contains a massive spoiler, but it makes the story sound a lot more exciting and gritty.
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The synopsis and footnotes have no record of the typed "indubitable" which catalyzed the revision.
The Scandal of 'Ulysses'
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John gave a general synopsis and managed the slides and Jo gave a more detailed explanation.
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SYNOPSIS: Joe Davies and Glenn McCubbin comprised the crew of an F4D
McCubbin, Glenn D.
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Wilson Cole mutinies from the Republic Navy and tries to make a life for himself and the people who join up with him.
January 2009
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The brief synopsis above does not do justice to the intricacy of the tale.
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The insert is a complete episode guide with a brief synopsis of each episode.
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A group of kids who possess supernatural abilities during the midnight hour fight off the sinister darklings.
REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
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Synopsis :The murky street, the faintly headlight, a pair of migration's canvas shoe, all of them make the night unpeaceful and turbulent.
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Neither Joyce's finally intended "indubitable" nor his earliest "incurable" are mentioned in the synopsis.
The Scandal of 'Ulysses'
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Short Synopsis: Natsume gets visited (read: possessed) by a youkai who used to play a traditional Japanese instrument called the "koto".
Anime Nano!
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I've read the synopsis of it but I haven't read any spoilers, but now knowing that there is a twist at the end I'm thinking it's fairly obvious.
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The synopsis of the film might give viewers who steer clear from anything different a reason to watch it.
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I will write a quick synopsis of the film for you lunkheads.
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On the morning of the 1968 crash -- during a spy mission shrouded in overcast, foggy weather -- the OP-2E Neptune's pilot radioed that he was going to drop through a hole in the clouds, according to a synopsis from
Buck, Arthur C.
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And the conclusions expressed seem, well, slightly at variance with Grant's synopsis.
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Even a synopsis of the events will do, in review form if you must.
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I write a synopsis of the main points, sketching out my beginning, middle and end.
Times, Sunday Times
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Synopsis: A Minotaur partners with a Harlequin; they have a falling out; the Minotaur is blinded, assumes the role of beggar, and depends on his young daughter to guide him.
REVIEW: The Good New Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois
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Mr Gilder has sent a letter to all members, assuring them that there is no crisis at the theatre and giving a brief synopsis of the events that led up to the resignations.
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A chronological synopsis of essential clinical events should be extracted from the medical record before the autopsy is begun and helps to guide the process.
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The Smiths are a synopsis of pain, a resolution - awkwardness and alienation ennobled, given poise.
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Ray, the latter of whom inserts it in his Synopsis, but without any habitat; though in his 'Historia Plantarum' he says: "Cantabrigiæ in horto per aliquot annos colui.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: With his life, and mind, in shambles after an industrial accident, Edgar Freemantle retreats to an island in Florida, where both the island, and Edgar, are deeper and darker than he had imagined.
REVIEW: Duma Key by Stephen King
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She continued with a vague, sketchy synopsis of what she planned to be doing, and how long she planned to stay.
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The studio posted a new trailer and a plot synopsis along with the title announcement on its blog.
Eurogamer
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Even though the plot synopsis may set off warning sirens, however, the film is refreshing, never cloying.
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I still think my synopsis is kind of sucky, but I've been sending it out to agents as if it's the cherry on top.
The Dreaded Novel Synopsis
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Synopsis: The “cynical gag” manga and anime take the archetypal characteristics of about 20 countries and regions, and anthropomorphize them as (mostly) bishōnen characters.
Anime Preview: Summer 2009 « Undercover
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This synopsis makes the film sound like a depressing cautionary tale but it isn't.
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I'm not going to comment on whether it's a hook, book, crook, synopsis or study of thanatosis.
Archive 2006-12-10
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John gave a general synopsis and managed the slides and Jo gave a more detailed explanation.
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Synopsis: The life story of Akuin, a male member of the fur-covered Hwarhath species who foster a matriarchic society on-planet while the adult men work in space to defend against the inevitable and impending attack from humans.
REVIEW: Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
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SYNOPSIS: During the 1950's a deteriorating political situation in Laos had allowed NVA troops and Pathet Lao guerrillas to seize the Laotian panhandle from the Royal Lao Army.
Boyles, Howard R. Jr.