Sentence examples for sort of compendium from inspiring English sources

The characters are a sort of compendium.

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.

He is, however, considering compiling another sort of compendium.

1924), "not so much a human being as a sort of compendium of nature", while "her death was right, after all, for by dying she was one with the natural processes that made her die, and fantastically ennobled thereby".

I sort of agree.

As with the director's minor films, it's more about visuals than vision, and Dark Shadows is a sort of Burton compendium.

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.

It's appropriate that Something New is the song chosen to mark their 10-year anniversary, given that it sort of feels like a compendium of all their best bits.

The Mumsnet Rules – in a money for old rope sort of way – is a huge compendium of tips and anecdotes taken from postings on the site.

Some Sort of Genius is, among other things, a compendium of the many reasons people found to dislike its subject.