Sentence examples for collections of Nothing from inspiring English sources

Collections of Nothing, by William Davies King (Chicago; $20).

His hard-won self-awareness gives his disclosures an intensity that will likely resonate with all readers, even those whose collections of nothing contain nothing at all.

Part memoir and part disquisition on the psychological impulses behind the urge to accumulate, "Collections of Nothing" is a wonderfully frank and engaging look at one man's detritus-fueled pathology.

That is: are humans "nothing but" a collection of molecules, nothing but a set of survival machines for their genes?

With the publication in 1994 of her debut collection of poems, Nothing in Nature Is Private, Rankine emerged as an innovative and provocative voice in contemporary poetry.

In a more dogged way, the British painter possessed the qualities that are most to be valued in Hughes himself and which are demonstrated in his collection of essays Nothing If Not Critical (1991).

Among the museum's first-rate collection of portraits, nothing exceeds Dennis Miller Bunker's sombre, haunting image of Anne Page (pictured above); and in its contemporary galleries Alison Elizabeth Taylor's marquetry "Room" is, like the museum itself, a chamber of wonders in an unexpected place.

His descriptions of Australia here lack the historical depth of field displayed in his stunning history of that country, "The Fatal Shore," and his asides about various artists lack the fierce critical acuity displayed in his galvanic study of Goya (2003) and his 1990 collection of essays, "Nothing if Not Critical".

The disorder is defined solely as a collection of features, nothing more.

But aside from a collection of whips, nothing in Hans' houseboat betrays his sexual passion.

It seems that the peasant look adopted in Tom Ford's collection for Yves Saint Laurent "consists of nothing more than a ruched blouse" with "nicely done ruching".