Sentence examples for compendium of scenes from inspiring English sources
While we wait, "Witness" is a compendium of scenes I had hoped never to see again.
During the opening moments of "Motherhood Out Loud," a compendium of scenes and monologues about the joys, agonies and clichés of being a mom, I found myself fantasizing about an aesthetic epidural, some sort of powerful shot that one could self-administer when you fear that even a 90-minute show will feel like full day in labor.
The remainder of the film is essentially a compendium of showcase scenes which you can't shift, even months on.
Least successful are "Artist" (2000), which too predictably highlights mainstream society's ludicrously obtuse fantasies about art and its creators, and "Doomed," an incoherent compendium of disaster scenes — earthquakes, floods and monster tornadoes — that sheds little light on audiences' attraction to visions of sublime destruction.
(Brantley) 'Motherhood Out Loud' A compendium of sentiment-enriched scenes and monologues about the joys and agonies of being a mom.
(Isherwood) 'Motherhood Out Loud' A compendium of sentiment-enriched scenes and monologues about the joys and agonies of being a mom.
More vast and more lurid than his previous novels that have been translated into English, "2666" is not Roberto Bolaño's masterpiece but almost a compendium, in individual scenes, of the qualities that made him a great writer.
This elegant compendium of masculine passions first appeared in a touching bedroom scene between Carrie and Mr Big in the film Sex and the City; later, it proved pivotal in their reunion.
(The French scenes, although well acted, make up a compendium of clichés about Americans abroad after the war).
Few African-Americans appear in these illustrations, while the one image of Chinese people, "The Chinese in New York -- Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House" (1874), is a compendium of negative racial stereotypes.
