Sentence examples for kind of compendium from inspiring English sources

In the course of a decade, the site became a kind of compendium of experimental culture, created and built by a motley collective.

But whereas most popular series include one of two useful points, the truly referenceable TV show is a kind of compendium, to be dusted off and consulted whenever a standard analogy fails you.

The earliest picture in the show, Maurice Prendergast's "Amusement Park," can be seen as a kind of compendium of the artistic ideas that emerge in "Progressive and Avant-Garde Artists," the first of the exhibition's four thematic groupings, and lead ultimately to "Postwar Abstraction and the Resurgence of Realism," the show's final chapter.

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").

At the end of the 16th century, several authors and professors tried to combine Ramist doctrine and the best of his ideas with a more thorough outline of Aristotelian philosophy, in order to produce a kind of compendium or systematized presentation from which students could efficiently benefit in a relatively short space of time.

The characters are a sort of compendium.

He is, however, considering compiling another sort of compendium.

The site is in many ways a kind of pop-art compendium honoring Ginsburg, relying on submissions and link-outs from across the country to show the ways the diminutive, 82-year-old justice has inspired young women -- and men -- to do great things.

In 2012,  the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia created the Cannabis Monograph, a first of it's kind compendium of scientific data, including standards for the plant's identity, purity, quality, and botanical properties.

He provided the eccentricity quota in Tron Legacy, where he played a cane-twirling nightclub owner styled as a walking Bowie compendium; a kind of Thin White Ziggy Sane.

The Compendium is a kind of lawbook, and, as such, it has its share of loopholes.