Sentence examples for fine compendium from inspiring English sources

Katherine Howe is a direct descendent of three accused Salem witches, and has produced a fine compendium of 17th-century dementia with Salem at its core.

Mr. Kline, "whose way with heavily accented characters is pure witchcraft," Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times, "offers a fine compendium of Gallic movie-star mannerisms, punctuated by the occasional disgusted shrug".

Sherrill's portrait of the fauna and flora of this lost world make "Dog Man" a rich compendium of fine nature writing.

Behind You! Gothic; The Dark Heart of Film (BFI, £15) is a compendium of fine prose and photography that's better than the season it accompanied, thanks to erudite contributions from Anne Billson, Kim Newman and Stephen Volk.

Ritchie, a former newspaper literary editor, illustrates his lucid explanations with a few well-chosen examples of sub-editing disaster – as does the Guardian's very own David Marsh in his fine grammar-and-style compendium, For Who the Bell Tolls (Guardian Faber).

And his book-length introduction to his 1959 compendium "The Zionist Idea" remains, arguably, the finest exploration of the movement's ideology in any language.

Among the treasures: a 12th-century liturgical compendium in which the scribe has transformed thread-fine lines of Hebrew text into human and animal forms; a 17th-century Italian marriage contract with a heraldic dove drawn with words from the Song of Songs; and a portrait of the political Zionist Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), cofposed of lines from his books (Cotter).

As Herman Melville said in that compendium of all things cetacean Moby Dick, it is ironic that "fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale".

First, traits mentioned in the literature for which fine-mapped genes were found, were matched to traits in the rice QTL compendium available.

The fine hockey writer Jeff Z. Klein's take on my account (which was, in turn, influenced by his "Hockey Compendium" of twenty some years ago) can be found here.

A Compendium of Kisses.