Ask Torontonians to name their favourite purchase from the Honest Ed's department store, and you rapidly compile a compendium of kitsch to fascinate any anthropologist from the future.
Yet the NNI strategy document NRC panelists claim is simply a compendium of federally funded projects without any unifying vision or sense of shared purpose.
Enter, hélas, " 'L'Origine de la Tendresse' and Other Tales," a compendium of six short films by French filmmakers, any one of which might prove diverting in the right place at the right time but all of which, cumulatively, don't much make for a knockout night at the cinema.
The Hedgehogs remind us that universities have endured longer than almost any other social institution and that the knowledge they provide is a compendium of the best that has been thought and said since the beginning of recorded time.
None has any experience of legislation or government; and the M5S's programme is a compendium of mostly well-intentioned aspirations, studded with yawning gaps (see article).
Astral Eyes has published his art in a compendium publication called åstrally ¥rs, and, not one to be restricted to any one discipline, is also founder and co-owner of Goldnbones, a fashion label that brings unique artist prints to clothing.
In contrast, iMAT may use as input the gene-expression pattern of either a single experiment or the consensus pattern from a compendium of experiments, thus forgoing the introduction of an objective function for any of the activity states.
It is a compendium of allusions.
Other inexplicably irresistible and uncategorisable Christmas fare includes Reggie Chamberlain-King's Weird Belfast (Blackstaff), a compendium of weird facts about a city that might rightly claim to be weirder than any other, and Mel Gooding's Art Rules!
This, the Malaysian national dish, is in truth a compendium.
