Sentence examples for selective surveys from inspiring English sources

His book, Murder a Cigarette (1998), dismissed the threat of passive smoking as being based on "pseudo-science, anecdotal evidence, selective surveys and statistical jiggery-pokery".

He makes this case through a highly selective survey of Western history.

Like all speculative exercises in Trenton, this one requires some selective surveying of the political landscape.

The Flinn Gallery at the Greenwich Library is showing "Nuevo Arte de Cuba," a selective survey of recent art, much of which is pleasant and childlike.

This selective survey puts videos aside and goes back to what shook American family rooms in the first place: concert performance.

The ideas and principles discussed so far may be illustrated by a selective survey of the history of land reform.

LYON, France, Oct. 1 - As the three-week Lyon Dance Biennial moved "Europa," its selective survey of European dance, toward its close this weekend, a state of familiar angst began to surface under a barrage of high-tech multimedia devices.

As a selective survey of American experimental dance, with a focus on the Judson Dance Theater of the 1960's, Mikhail Baryshnikov's new production, "PastForward," may sound 40 years out of date.

"I've always felt you could do a selective survey of George's work that would change the way people thought about it," Ralph Rugoff, the main organizer of the New Museum show, told me the other day.

"Inner Views" is a selective survey, with just a total of 17 images from three recent series — all focused on interiors.

What you will see is a selective survey of elegant Havana houses, from the traditional Spanish Colonial courtyard house of the 19th century to the Modernist-influenced houses of the 1950s.