A mere four words can summarize so much teaching, so many stories, so much faith in a God who is always in our midst.
Our Twitter Pope, Pope Francis, tweeted a message a week or so ago that seems to summarize so much about his papacy: "Inequality," he taught his tens of thousands of followers, "is the root of social evil".
Gladwell summarized the experience: So much of what can be seen on an X-ray falls into a gray area that interpreting a mammogram is also, in part, a matter of temperament.
Roper summarized Flow as "not so much a game as it is an experience", and Mitchell claimed that it "tries to do something entirely unique and experimental, and on that level, it succeeds".
"Much of the testimony and evidence so far could have been summarized, rather than presented in so much detail," Roof wrote in the motion.
"Talking to them, I learned so, so, so much," Paul said in the video, summarizing the conversation.
So much of modern life can be summarized in that suggestive phrase of Thoreau: "Improved means to an unimproved end".
In retrospect, it seems clear that what infuriated many of Moynihan's readers wasn't so much what he wrote (he was mainly summarizing contemporary research) as what he represented.
So much, now, that it's hard to summarize.
The possible link between the two great scourges has garnered so much attention that the American Cancer Society and the American Diabetes Association jointly published a consensus statement this summer summarizing the evidence.
