Sentence examples for veritable catalogue from inspiring English sources
He's had to be, if only to surmount his name (a veritable catalogue of unfortunate rhymes and echoes) and his birth (which, besides providing fodder for malevolent fantasies, brought him no riches, no entrée into any élite, and a skin color that presented some challenges).
In my tiny library sat such classics as "The BFG," by Roald Dahl, in which a girl is plucked from her bed by an ogre, and "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," a veritable catalogue of grotesqueries accompanied by the most spine-tingling drawings I've ever seen.
The Mercer offers a veritable catalogue of thoughtful amenities, including a lending library of CD's and movies, minibar snacks from Dean & DeLuca, and the arrival in the morning of two newspapers (one, The International Herald Tribune, comes in what looks like a baguette sleeve).
It is a veritable catalogue of life's many joys, featuring terms like utepils (Norwegian, "a beer that is enjoyed outside... particularly on the first hot day of the year"), mbuki-mvuki (Bantu, "to shed clothes to dance uninhibited"), tarab (Arabic, "musically induced ecstasy or enchantment"), and gigil (Tagalog, "the irresistible urge to pinch/squeeze someone because they are loved or cherished").
It gets women to divulge the good, the bad, and the ugly (emphasis on the ugly) about current or former relationships, hookups and encounters, to build a veritable catalogue of penis reviews.
New York streets were veritable catalogues of materials and styles: One shopfront half-timbered mock-Tudor, one an 18th-century French antique facade, one a modernistic glass design looking like a lightbulb, one Art Deco with oval windows and stainless steel.
Yet even as the first half of the album continues to plant Keane's newly ploughed furrow with a veritable seed-catalogue of defiantly unfashionable early/mid-Eighties influences (Deacon Blue, the Thompson Twins, David Bowie's 'Let's Dance'... it just doesn't stop), the grandeur of their conceptual scheme gradually becomes apparent.
Greek aristocratic communities, the ruling elite, traced their lineages back to the heroes of epic poetry; thus the Catalogue, a veritable "map of the Hellenic world in genealogical terms," preserves much information about a complex system of kinship associations and hierarchies that continued to have political importance long after the Archaic period.
And in our new catalogue you'll find a veritable arsenal of tools and plant material designed to enhance and protect your homestead.
