Sentence examples for nutshell but from inspiring English sources

It's hard to put it into a nutshell but there's a blueprint.

It's coffee-table goth, in a nutshell, but it's good to see that in her music she can conjure, for all its complex content, some reassuringly simple tunes.

Man is not born free, was his argument in a nutshell, but is set free by the creation of the human institutions that protect his rights.

If the music still speaks to us today, however fitfully, it is not because we respond to the travails of a wife whose husband has been sent into exile by his father (the "Foscari" plot in a nutshell) but because those travails are a means through which Verdi expresses a kind of human emotion to which everyone can relate.

Late on, Aaryan gets an eight-minute monologue – surpassing his four-minute rant in the original – that lists in funny-tedious detail the myriad things young men find frustrating about the opposite sex: it's the film in a nutshell, but also all too clearly untempered editorial.

That's the story in a nutshell, but it is in the telling by which it soars.

The scenes she builds are similar to Lee's nutshells, but on a much larger scale and with far less detail.

In a nutshell - positive, but cautious.

That is but one nutshell response to the sometimes amusing, occasionally impressive but also enervating slog that is "The Studio Visit," the latest marathon effort from Exit Art.

I usually have a little weep at the close of his novels that engage both head and heart so vigorously, but Nutshell sounds wacky.

"Oh yes, I may get a letter from someone saying, 'Excuse me, those foetuses can't say a word.'" McEwan's work is a staple fixture of the English A-level syllabus, but "Nutshell won't make it," he grins, "because all those speculations from my narrator about what it means to have your father's rival's penis inches from your face".