Sentence examples for collection of occasions from inspiring English sources

"Vellum" is more a collection of occasions than a unified performance, but its best poems both describe and embody these paradoxes in richly textured language.

Though I couldn't get my head around this strange collection of occasions - I kept asking the PR: "Yes, but why Iceland?' - they seemed representative of Yoko's work, which moves fluidly between peace, art and her late husband's memory (not so much music these days; she says she doesn't have the time).

Last month saw the publication of "Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law," a collection of essays occasioned by a trend scarcely known outside the legal profession: the new movement of narrative law.

Nor should the title 'Hamlet' be taken as referring to ideas in the author's mind, to some spectator's experience of the work, or to some collection of experiences occasioned by performances of the play.

Even so, we've managed to amass quite a collection to commemorate all sorts of occasions.

"He has a huge collection of hats for every occasion, even bulletproof hats for those pesky assassination attempts," the narrator notes snidely.

At Pagan the people were so fond of music that even the collection of taxes became an occasion to dance and sing, and a royal official, endowing a temple, inscribed a prayer asking that in all his future existences until he reached Nirvana "might he be woken up every morning to the strains of music sweetly played on flute and violin".

You have a collection of sandals for every occasion: fancy, casual, and athletic.

A blank-card type myself, and to avoid sorting through the overwhelming, ever-growing choice of collections and occasions, I asked the attendant if she might point me to "good-luck" cards.

"Red shoes add a bit of levity to an otherwise serious outfit," said Aya Kanai, a stylist who has a collection of red shoes for every occasion.

Sam Sachs, the director of the Frick Collection, had ordered a special book for the occasion: a collection of the letters that Vincent Astor wrote to Brooke Marshall -- up to five feverish ones a day -- when he was wooing her.