Sentence examples for gist from inspiring English sources

Wallace confirmed that after years of disputes with successive cabinet secretaries, and discussions with Washington, Chilcot had agreed to a settlement whereby summaries, and "the gist", of more than a hundred records of conversations between Blair and George Bush in the runup to the invasion, and of records of 200 cabinet discussions, would be published, but not the documents themselves.

Ultimately though, a surfeit of creativity is surely preferable to a lack of it, and there's a fair chance you'll still be unearthing Gist Is's many secrets long after the Mercuries have packed up for another year.

You more or less get the gist of what's going on.

It was a wide-ranging and lengthy conversation covering some of the issues I've covered in this blog and beyond, the gist of which was that the various crises we face today - from climate change to the economy - are not separate, distinct crises, but rather facets of a wider crisis of industrial civilisation in its current form.

She said: I'm going to give you the gist of something I wrote for the current mayor, Boris Johnson, when I felt that he didn't understand what being green was all about...I actually made him sit down and read it.

I'll spare you the delights of thrush and periods in the rainforest, I'm sure you get the gist.

The gist of paternalism is that it takes away choices other people think are bad for us to make.