Search Details

Word: synthesise (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Screenwriter Walter Newman, adapting Richard Price's tough novel, has no use for dramatic efficiency or synthesis. Besides Stony's story, he tells in lavish detail the histrionic tales of the hero's psychotic mother (Lelia Goldoni), his anorectic kid brother (Michael Hershewe), his sexually troubled dad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Somebodies | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

So Solzhenitsyn seeks the universal Truths that the Westerner believes will result in elitism and autocracy. He thinks in terms of an Eastern synthesis, a "Supreme Complete Entity," whereas the Westerner, more skeptical and analytic, views reality as being based on the individual. The contrast of opinion is hardly a...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Lost in the Translation | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

A common synthesis that makes a "Third Stream" piece, Blake said, is one that blends elements of classical style, such as Bach, with elements of jazz, such as Duke Ellington. But it could also be created in less obvious ways, such as in combinations of Bartok's style with ethnic...

Author: By Mel M. Marinkovic, | Title: Blake Advises Third Stream Composers | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

At best, the quotes used in the above paragraph are an inaccurate synthesis of the answers I gave the author to several similar questions asked repeatedly at different points in our conversation. At no time did I say that the faculty council was Dean Tosteson's cabinet. The faculty cabinet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minority Admissions | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

Holmes's objections concern a two-sentence quote, which she correctly terms a "synthesis"--there should have been an ellipsis between the two sentences.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minority Admissions | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

Previous | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | Next