Sentence examples for like a compendium from inspiring English sources

At times it seems like a compendium of clichéd movie innovations of the era: Nonactors in lead roles!

He joins a list of prior Matrix participants that reads like a compendium of seminal contemporary artists, including Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Sol LeWitt.

Indeed, the film is like a compendium of the effects and preoccupations that would help transform the director's name into an adjective, a living dictionary entry for Felliniesque.

Another appealing thing about the book is that it reads like a compendium of all the times he realised how fantastically talented other people were.

Because the book offers a student's-eye view, it often reads like a compendium of the big gossip of the year.

The band arrived with no manifesto, just terse songs, and it sounded from the beginning like a compendium of ideas that should never have gone out of style.

However, he would have liked to have a compendium containing the meeting program.

It's like he's doing a compendium of American music.

The title of Paul Auster's new book makes it sound less like a novel than a compendium of magic tricks - which, in a way, is what a novel amounts to.

He wrote his own libretto, an 86-page text that reads at times like a theological compendium complete with about 100 footnotes.

But shorn of detail, it looks like a poverty compendium: the bread and dripping, the drunken husband, the wife in a crocheted cap wringing her careworn hands.