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    recapitulation


    1. At the first rereading it had seemed to be a relatively short recapitulation of all the previous chapters


    2. 79-80 (Recapitulation of several of the Laws)


    3. of computer evolution, so much so that a brief recapitulation of


    4. That list could well have served as a recapitulation of twenty years of war


    5. Around the time they were preparing José Arcadio for the seminary she had already made a detailed recapitulation of life in the house since the founding of Macondo and had completely changed the opinion that she had always held of her descendants


    6. “One of the fastest ways of slaying self-importance(22) is through a profound life recapitulation, to determine the reasons you did what you did, find the essence of those actions, and follow the disciplines that cause you to stop making those choices by practicing the not-doings of the self


    7. The not-doings of the self—or self-image—are their opposites, and one can more easily practice these after a recapitulation that informs them of their relative ignorance and inherent idiocy


    8. You should definitely see a turn-around in your healing process in the days and weeks after doing this recapitulation


    9. For the sake of recapitulation, Krishn named “action” in Chapter 2,


    10. He was so obstinate in his resolution, that Heathcliff deemed it expedient to compel from my lips a recapitulation of what had taken place; standing over me, heaving with malevolence, as I reluctantly delivered the account in answer to his questions

    11. Here is a recapitulation of results:


    12. elbow of his chair, and swayed his head up and down, apparently as a muscular outlet instead of that recapitulation which would not have been becoming


    13. leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics—all those profundities which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent I, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to cause stars to blaze forth there


    14. This is essentially a recapitulation of the Chapter 5 discussion, except that I’ve changed the order of the steps:


    15. Recapitulation of the objections to the theory of Natural


    16. With respect to the almost universal sterility of species when first crossed, which forms so remarkable a contrast with the almost universal fertility of varieties when crossed, I must refer the reader to the recapitulation of the facts given at the end of the ninth chapter, which seem to me conclusively to show that this sterility is no more a special endowment than is the incapacity of two distinct kinds of trees to be grafted together; but that it is incidental on differences confined to the reproductive systems of the intercrossed species


    17. Yet, I ask the question: is not the spirit which it breathes disgraceful? Is it not disgraceful to abandon the exercise of all our commercial rights, because our rivals interfere with a part; not only to refrain from exercising that trade which they prohibit, but for fear of giving offence, to decline that which they permit? Is it not disgraceful, after inflammatory recapitulation of insults, and plunderings, and burnings, and confiscations, and murders, and actual war made upon us, to talk of nothing but alternatives, of general declarations, of still longer suspension of our rights, and retreating farther out of "harm's way?" If this course be adopted by my country, I hope I am in error concerning its real character


    18. RECAPITULATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES


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    Synonyms for "recapitulation"

    recapitulation recap review palingenesis summary abstract synopsis capitulation abbreviation

    "recapitulation" definitions

    emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species


    (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated


    a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion


    (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)