The immense tableau of the Credo, a conspectus of movements covering the whole range of Bach's choral writing, was a shattering dramatisation of personal belief and theology.
It is indeed, to quote the author's preface, "a conspectus of the present state of the science of petrology," but it is a little doubtful whether the workers in other branches of geology or "students who have acquired an elementary knowledge of the science" will know quite how much to believe when they have read it all.
The paper begins with a conspectus of the seminal literature on shock-induced separation and modes of shock oscillation.
In a work of this sort it is inevitable that some simplifications must be made, but we hope, never theless, that we have presented the most reasonable conspectus of areas of con troversy and uncertainty.
This book, from one of France's shrewdest interpreters of the Muslim world, provides a highly readable end-of-term conspectus of the subsequent violent encounter between America and the jihadists.
The Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, which has grown from a collection of local antiquities started in 1839, contains a wide range of exhibits, from costumes to parts of old buildings and from architect's drawings to models of ships, shown in such a way as to present an impressive conspectus of the state's history.
1979 A Conspectus of the African Acacia Species.
Static reduced dimensional views, like Magritte's rendering in the Conspectus, have tremendous value but do not convey the richness of the three-dimensional, dynamical, functional object.
In fact, the Seventh Symphony crystallises a conspectus of a compositional technique that later composers like Elliott Carter, George Benjamin, and countless others, would employ: so called "metric modulation", in which you use a common unit of musical time to elide from one speed to another.
The present article adds a conspectus of Diodorus's other ideas.
