Sentence examples for of compendium from inspiring English sources

The characters are a sort of compendium.

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

In All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion Lisa Appignanesi has made a sort of compendium of love stories, picking them from literature and history and philosophy and anecdotally from life.

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.

Hou's first feature since 2007's Flight of the Red Balloon (a couple of compendium contributions notwithstanding), The Assassin was several years in the making, and finds the acclaimed director of Dust in the Wind, A City of Sadness and The Puppetmaster taking a groundbreaking foray into ancient history.

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.

Catching up is, of course, a ritual of serial comic reading, and this summer appropriately brings its bloom of compendiums and retrospectives, including AL CAPP'S L'IL ABNER.

A full season of a series is preferred by consumers over the "best of" compendiums often put together in the past for VHS.

In 2011, his words from Apollo 11 became part of a compendium of the sounds of American space flight.

It (The Republican economic platform) just struck me as sort of a compendium of modest expectations.

"But...it just struck me as sort of a compendium of modest expectations.