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English
Noun
summing-up (plural summings-up or summing-ups)
- Alternative form of summing up.
1830 December 9, The Bath Chronicle, volume 73, number 3571, Bath: H. E. Carrington, , front page, column 2:There and then, have I often heard, […], above all, (nam supereminet omnes) the calm, dignified, and elegant summings-up, of Lord Mansfield: delivered in “silver tones,” that / “Rose like a steam of rich distill’d perfumes, / And stole upon the air.” / which were heard with a silence “still as death;” and never failed to fascinate, though they might not always convince.
1904, Carolyn Wells, “The Decision”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 18:“[…] And now, having convinced you all to my way of thinking, I will leave the case in the hands of our wise and competent judge.” / “Wait,” said Uncle Charley; “I believe the captains are usually allowed a sort of summing-up speech, are they not?” / “They are in this case, anyway,” said Patty. “Mr. Elliott will please go ahead with his summing-up.”
1973, David Bordwell, “The Dual Cinematic Tradition in Citizen Kane”, in Stanley J. Solomon, editor, The Classic Cinema: Essays in Criticism, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, page 185:The film’s complexity arises from the narrators’ conflicting judgments, their summing-ups of Kane.
1985, John Michel Gibb, “Summing-up”, in John Michel Gibb, editor, Science Parks and Innovation Centres: Their Economic and Social Impact: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Berlin 13–15 February 1985, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 302:I will not attempt to sum up their summing-ups, but will nevertheless hazard certain conclusions - necessarily of a somewhat subjective nature.
1995 October 25, Ying Hui Tan, “Directions on defendant’s silence at trial”, in Independent, number 2,814, page 16, column 8:In the first two appeals the judges had to cope with the new provisions without guidance. Their summing-ups were defective and the appeals must be allowed.
2005, Colin Fisher, “Performance management and performing management”, in John Leopold, Lynette Harris, Tony Watson, editors, The Strategic Managing of Human Resources, Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 178:But who should judge the judges? (other judges probably), should their judgements be appraised? (probably not) and should the durations of their summing-ups be measured? (also probably not).
2012 September 16, Ty Burr, “Not fade away? All stars die, but their stardom can be a different story”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 282, number 78, Boston, Mass., page N10, columns 1–2:The obituaries and public conversations surrounding timely movie star deaths work as summings-up, final assessments of worth before the dirt hits the cultural coffin lid.
2013 May 9, Christopher Arnott, “Dark Side of the Moon”, in New Haven Advocate, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Courant Company, LLC, page 96, column 2:“Everybody is lonely because you’re meant to be alone” is one of the many lamentable summings-up in this distressing chronicle of poor Elvira’s final days.