Thirteen-year-old Martha could read an Oxford compendium of humor, although she seized up when handed a volume he deemed "profitable and edifying," or one with the name Mather on the cover.
The sunny corner cafe features a mural of the New York skyline, a Rolling Stones soundtrack, three tiny cafe tables and blackboard menus that read like a compendium of street festival snacks and bar menu favorites.
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.
Because the book offers a student's-eye view, it often reads like a compendium of the big gossip of the year.
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.
Vocabulary: cartography, compendium, infrastructure, equivalent, nonsensical, hoax, formulaic, collaborative, flourish, aggregate, measly, proselytize, initiatives, encryption, patrons Extension Activities: 1. Design a Web site that teaches novice user how to critically read a Web site.
It was odd, given that McClelland had not been raped herself, that the tenor of some of the attacks on her read like a compendium of invective commonly used to discredit actual rape accusers.
This vulgar, unimaginative adaptation of Dr. Seuss's first "I Can Read" book is a compendium of how not to.
To see just how far Ron took revenge, read her collection "Love Trouble," a compendium of such militant satire and wicked irony that it will disinhibit your serotonin without a prescription.
One effect of reading Mullen's compendium is to make you appreciate the sheer density, the tight-woven intricacy, of every scene and every exchange in Austen.
Bindel: I have just read your new book, Not in My Name: a Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy.
