Sentence examples for As a summing up from inspiring English sources

It might then be supposed that their concern with the world as a whole is to be interpreted as a summing up and synthesizing of the results of the particular sciences.

Poitier views the book as a "summing up" of his career and his life as father to six daughters, but the crux is Poitier's preoccupation with the choices he made to sustain his long run as a leading man, and the shift in racial politics that helped to bring that run to an end.

He said of the retrospective: "I don't look at it as a summing up, but it's an ambitious presentation of my work.... I'm delighted".

It was promoted as a summing up of an era, rather than a brisk, acerbic jaunt.

He did everything -- build it or tear it down --and no power tools.' Mr. Hendricks sees the retrospective as a summing up of his career so far, but in his mind's eye he sees at least one direction ahead.

That phrase has been latched upon by certain critics as a summing up of the Coward technique: an expert deployment of frivolous chatter spread like a topcoat of meringue across dark and stormy depths.

Nevertheless, as a summing-up of national attitude, it feels appropriate.

Le Carré, 76, talked of being at an age when "it's impossible not to see everything I write as a summing-up"; and again seemed to hint that his well-received latest novel, A Most Wanted Man, could be his farewell to spy fiction.

It appears therefore in reasoning as a summing-up, a result, and not as the starting point, although it is the real point of origin, and thus also the point of origin of perception and imagination.

As horribly racist as a deck summing up all the clichés about black people may sound, critics always forget that Jovontae Turner himself, an African American pro skateboarder, submitted the idea.

However, he is rarely to be seen and as a farmer summed up: "I have been cultivating for the last 20 years.