The word 'capsulize' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to condensing a complex concept or idea into a brief summary. For example, "The professor was able to effectively capsulize the content of the lecture into 30 minutes."
The group's grand, piano-driven songs (available for download at www.straylightrun.com) are full of sweeping choruses and nagging second thoughts, and more than one lyric belongs to the rapidly growing sub-sub-genre of meta-emo: "All these lines/ Fall short of what I had in mind/ A failed attempt to capsulize a feeling".
The Mazzolas' differences over the presidential candidates capsulize the deep divisions among many Long Islanders, as reflected in interviews with dozens of residents on street corners and in shopping malls here and in Huntington.
"With 'Smiley's' we couldn't capsulize its content, say what it was about," he said.
Bart Schneider, the editor of Speakeasy, said that most magazines "are doing everything to shut culture down -- digest things, capsulize, as if all anyone can read about a subject is a paragraph".
But if it were necessary to capsulize this annual scrum, it would be done this way: Game 5. Twice the final contest and once the scene of a fight that injected hatred into this competitive postseason get-together, Game 5's have defined this series.
The par-3 third, which was playing 224 yards, capsulized his day: Woods's six-iron off the tee landed short and right of the green; he hit his second shot over the green, chipped back to 30 feet of the pin and two-putted.
The moment capsulized one family's self-guided journey through loss.
As has been the case all year, putting was Villegas's undoing, his two-putt from five feet on his third-to-last hole capsulizing his woes.
His woes were capsulized on No. 18 when his chip out of the rough failed to find the green, leading to his sixth bogey of the day.
To attain wisdom, subtract things every day," it said, capsulizing teachings of Lao Tzu.
However, he went winless for a five-month stretch after his monumental victory over Woods in the Honda Classic in March, his ungraceful play capsulized by a 77 on the Saturday of the Masters in a round so rotten he received a consoling hug from his playing partner, Sergio García.
