Samoa Joe

Intimidation is an unusual animal: it's a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche. Knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, and that's just the basic gist of it... The soul-crushing stare, the fatherly disappointment, mixed with a little bit of hate and rage - you're on your way.

American Wrestler

Lisa Hanawalt

I value multi-layered artwork that warrants a second glance, so I try my best to achieve that with my own work. If something is solely pretty or solely disgusting, you look at it once and get the gist and move on. If it's a mix of both, it's potentially more interesting.

American Artist

Morgan Saylor

I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get into the character and have the gist of the scene. But in theater, if you don't do it word for word, then you throw off your scene partner.

American Actress

Leona Lewis

I can't remember who told me but I was advised early on not to Google myself or read things about myself... I don't read a lot but get the gist of what's been said from friends and family. It's good to avoid it if you want to be normal person.

British Musician

Matthew Walker

As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it.

English Scientist

Ralph Fiennes

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

British Actor

Ann Reinking

The whole gist of 'All That Jazz' is Faustian. It's about a man who sells his soul to show business - which Bob didn't do. He understood the dangers of glamour and falling into that kind of life.

Steven Spielberg

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

American Director

Gail Simmons

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

Canadian Entertainer

Helena Bonham Carter

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.

British Actress

Use 'gist' when you understand something quickly without detail.

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'Gist' is more casual; perfect for everyday talk.

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In legal settings, 'gist' refers to a case's main reasons.

Legal Context

Precision is crucial; 'gist' captures the case's essence accurately.

Legal Precision

Use 'gist' when discussing the central issue in legal debates.

Legal Discussions

 quickly obviously and so the basic gist of it is I grabbed a bunch of family since she's like mommy but you forgot the pink baby and you forgot the blue daddy and you forgot all these other things and she says they want to go and I said honey no they don't want to go this is the Middle Passage nobody wants to go in the Middle Passage so she gave

Gaming for understanding...

 and I tell her to paint them in different families. These are pictures of Maezza when she was -- God, it still chokes me up seeing these. So she's painting her little families. So then I grab a bunch of them and I put them on a boat. This was the boat, it was made quickly, obviously. And so the basic gist of it is, I grabbed a bunch of families,

Brenda Romero: Gaming...

 but that is the gist of what he said. But weirdly, hardy anyone had scientifically investigated this, until a truly extraordinary person I got to know, named professor Tim Kasser, who's at Knox College in Illinois, and he's been researching this for about 30 years now. And his research suggests several really important things.

This could be why you're...

 you get the gist. For journey, for travel. So reconciling our need for security and our need for adventure into one relationship, or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in terms. Marriage was an economic institution

The secret to desire in...

 So a couple minutes later, this I got by email. It's a very good transcription. But a couple minutes after that, I got the text message version. Now remember, a text message can only be 160 characters long. So it had better be the gist of the gist, right?

David Pogue: Cool new...

 but it captures the gist of what Bernoulli had to say -- was The expected value of any of our actions -- that is, the goodness that we can count on getting -- is the product of two simple the odds that this action will allow us to gain something,

Why we make bad...

 says hello the gist of the conversation our house is a mess the living rooms a disaster from dynamite fishing and deep-sea trawling and my coral kitchen Gardens bleaching and dying from climate change pollution and disease corals are not only

How can sculptures save...

 let's do something about it I opened my phone my private phone number to the whole country I said like please call me if you want to register to tell me you have a crane so many people have been calling me voluntary we have the gist at

Putting a Species on the...

 towards more useful intelligence. Human plus machine isn't the future, it's the present. Everybody that's used online translation to get the gist of a news article from a foreign newspaper, knowing its far from perfect.

Don't fear intelligent...

 very deep indentations in his skull the length the Tufts are controlled by the genes but you can generally get a gist of how old they are as well through

Gist

The main point or essential part of a matter.

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