20 Verbs to Use for the Word gist

In narrating you should, as a rule, stick to simple occurrences, though you may occasionally vary your work by summarizing the plot of a novel or giving the gist and drift of big historical events.

These services, certainly, constitute the gist of history, and it is these which I have aspired to show.

Thus the two famous and perhaps mythical sentences, invariably repeated by historians of the incident, about orange-skins and dirty linen, do in fact sum up the gist of the matter.

The Analects of Confucius contain the gist of his teachings, and is worthy of study.

Yes, I had got the gist all right.

Thus she argued to herself, and wrote the gist of her argument to her aunt.

As will be noted, this balance dispenses entirely with knife edges, and this statement carries with it the gist of its entire merit.

There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.

What can I do for you?" "Tell me why you have acted this comedy," said I, recollecting at the right moment the gist of my reflections during the past two days.

The diagram on p. 131 shows compactly the gist of the preceding discussion; it gives the view of social development upon which I base all my political conceptions.

Here, then, is a preliminary test which may be commended to the would-be playwright, in order to ascertain whether the subject he is contemplating is or is not a good one: can he state the gist of it in a hundred words or so, like the "argument" of a Boccaccian novella?

And exactly as an intelligent reader, in a first perusal of a new subject, snatches the heart out of paragraph after paragraph, ignoring the details until later, she took to herself only the gist of her host's recital.

I told him the gist of Nossilov's story "The Theatre of the Voguls," and he evidently listened with great pleasure.

The squire read this over three times before he could quite understand the gist of it, and at last perceived,or thought that he perceived,that if this were true the innocence of his nephew was incontestable.

He, when he hears and learns the story's gist, Will joy, I trow, in heart.

A girl named Marion Cloud, considered the second best belle of Toledo, changed the gist of the situation by a remark she made to Betty.

Well, there is a certain not too clearly recognised order in the sciences to which I wish to call your attention, and which forms the gist of my case against this scientific pretension.

Billing themselves as the next phase in a truly populist and articulated body politic, the sites amount to little more than an opportunity for politicians to glean the gist of a few more uninformed, knee-jerk reactions to the issue of the day.

" He did not seem to grasp the gist.

"Yes?" said I, carefully careless, but I wanted more than ever to know that missive's gist.

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  gist