gist

One niece of a victim wrote her a letter, the gist of which was, “Lois Robison, shut up,” she said.

But, in short, the gist of this argument is: Afghanistan's a loser.

These words sum up the gist of his international aims during the three following years.

I had entirely forgotten the gist of our conversation before I left him; he had been thinking of nothing else.

The gist of the Minority Report so far, at any rate, as the non-able-bodied are concerned may be put even more shortly.

As to the gist of the letter itself, it was some time before he understood it.

Those are not the words of her mind—only the gist of her thought.