Sentence examples for motley collections from inspiring English sources

Museums have come a long way since their beginnings as cabinets of curiosities -- motley collections of knickknacks assembled by the nobility of Renaissance Europe.

It was these motley collections of dreamers and bean-counters who began constructing massive, complex systems for seemingly private communication inside games.

On the other is a motley collection of consumer advocates, law-school professors and cyber-libertarians.

He said the committee was a "motley collection of amateurs" who would destroy Ukip.

In the motley collection, Tom Waits rubs shoulders with Tchaikovsky, who nestles cheek by jowl with Marvin Gaye, Ella Fitzgerald and Cole Porter.

Americans have for the most part read Samuel Beckett in a motley collection of very thin books.

It features a motley collection of dozens of public figures, including David Letterman, Al Gore, J. J.

Lopate's introduction takes the opposite tack, making a case for this "motley collection" as a frank miscellany.