Sentence examples for Explain in a nutshell from inspiring English sources

Idiom

In a nutshell.

This idiom is used to introduce a concise summary.

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I asked her to explain in a nutshell what makes the Cuban model so successful.

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That divergence explains, in a nutshell, why governments need an antitrust policy.

"It explains, in a nutshell, why polling shows attitudes about the law to be at best mixed," she said.

According to Byrne, the main challenge in this writing technique "was more emotional than technical: to write simple heartfelt tunes without drawing on cliché." He later explained, "In a nutshell, Brian wrote most of the music, and I composed most of the vocal melodies and lyrics, and then sang them".

"Our hips face inwards so our knees face inwards, and the leg sways outside — just to explain that in a nutshell.

And I, you know, the way I explain that in a nutshell is that I used to practice clinical medicine, taking care of patients; now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

"He was heroic by nature," he says as if that explains it in a nutshell.

One of those was the 2-2 drat at Old Trafford in October 1995; the Guardian's Scott Murray said the match "explained 1990s football in a nutshell", such was Liverpool's inability to earn a result that was commensurate with their performance.

That pretty much explains Zoe Saldana in a nutshell.

This actually explains the whole subject in a nutshell in that we are often driven by our feelings and desire to express our feelings but not by our own experiences and wisdom.

"Everything has a story and the problem is, as you know, the attention span of everybody is so short and if it's at all complicated people get confused and it's very difficult to explain some of these things in a nutshell," he said, making no apologies.

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