Sentence examples for comprise a kind from inspiring English sources

More recent friendly manoeuvres between Vietnam and America are understood to comprise a kind of diplomatic bulwark against a certain unmentioned giant to the north.

The urban rail transit station walkway and flow of passengers comprise a kind of unique finite capacity queuing system with the diversified arrival rate distribution (with no fixed squared coefficient of variation) and varying service time distribution (where the service time depends on the number of passengers).

Hopefully, these five clips comprise a kind of mini-syllabus on how to shoot nightclub footage properly.

Conversations with women living with or dying of cancer (and the distinction is not always possible to make) comprise a kind of rarefied discourse not many of us master.

He adds, "Assembled in order, they comprise a kind of abstract or emotional narrative arc, which moves evocatively from separation and solitude to community, from motion to rest, near-silence to sound and song, light to darkness and back to light again, ending on a note of rebirth and regeneration".

Both Akomfrah and Hall's understandings of blackness comprise a kind of smooth space, where blackness does not necessarily stand in opposition to whiteness but where the illusion of that opposition — specifically, that black and white people cannot, or should not, stand on equal footing together in the same society — is continuously unravelled.

Each trio of plays comprises a kind of trilogy, unrelated by characters but sharing common textual ground.

But in their heyday Pelicans hugely influenced the nation's intellectual culture: they comprised a kind of home university for an army of autodidacts, aspirant culture-vultures and social radicals.

Simpson's rise from a lower-middle-class upbringing in San Francisco to multimillionaire status and then his fall from grace comprises a kind of Gatsby-esque story, if Jay Gatsby was accused of murdering Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway.

For good measure, the novel comprises a kind of compendium of the literature of enculturated primates, from Kafka (Bruno's father is named Rotpeter, after the narrator-ape of "A Report to an Academy") to Curious George (Rotpeter is taken from the jungle by "a man in a big yellow hat").

Bailey's interpretation of what's been called the family scene – Dracula feeds on a mother, after killing the father by slicing open his throat, while a son cowers – is that it comprised a kind of rape.