Sentences with phrase «general gist of the story»

Our son, then aged 12, read it first and spoke so highly of it that I moved it to the top of my reading pile - I planned to read it quickly in order to get the general gist of the story (having already had the thumbs up from a key reviewer in the right target market!)

That's the general gist of the story, and while there's story beats involving the Commission and its mission and plenty of gorgeous cutscenes, you spend most of your time in Monster Hunter World chasing these fairly straightforward goals.

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Because of their imagery, stories help us remember their general gist more easily than we remember pure factual information.

I could spend an inordinate amount of time on the plot, put with so many stories and characters, I'm going to just give the general gist of things.

In general, I start with an idea and a general gist of how I want the story to end, and I let the characters write through me.

the gist of this story — the kidnapping of children by the legendary revolutionary general Pancho Villa, and the manhunt through the Sierra Madre — was suggested to me by a dear friend, the late Edwin «Eddie»...

While I won't jump too deep into the story due to spoilers, the general gist is that a group of artifact hunters are on the hunt for various artifacts stolen by Doctor Peter Straub.

That in turn has prompted a slew of news stories on the case, the general gist of which you can get from the headlines: Media and rights organizations defend National Review, et al. against Michael Mann (The Washington Post) Climate scientist faces broad array of foes in suit vs. National Review (Reuters) Groups rally around think tank, publication being sued for global warming views (Fox News)... and of course:...