recapitulation

How To Use recapitulation 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.
• 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.
• Some of the material will be familiar to readers who have kept up with this debate, but this volume is by no means a recapitulation of debates now worn threadbare by constant worrying.
• The events, though recent, do need a brief recapitulation.
• The following, then, is less a straight recapitulation of plot and character than it is an introduction to the basic discourses at work in one of Rivette's most important films.