Sentence examples for within the compass of from inspiring English sources

And all this occurs insidiously, barely within the compass of the reader's conscious recognition.

Together these bring the original text within the compass of every intelligent reader.

It is, within the compass of its genre -- the deathbed summa, the parting shot -- complete and fully realized.

The amplitude of the chōka permitted the poets to treat themes impossible within the compass of the tanka.

Within the compass of about 240 poems, the range and the diversity of subject and of treatment are astonishing.

Much of what she describes remains within the compass of living memory, or passed beyond it during the years she was researching her book.

A crucial element of subtlety — a willingness to let the characters breathe and wander within the small compass of the story — is missing, and the revelations and reversals that fill out the plot feel glib and obvious rather than incisive.

Only a few of the true Gulliver's journeys, to Lilliput and, briefly, to the land of the Brobdingnags, fall within the narrow Compass of this Narrative, which has been transported from my Time to yours.

This latest book (published in German in 1998) spans the years from 1800 to the present two centuries well within the recognised compass of art history and art theory.

This is a dubious notion, and "Tabu" makes it convincing only within the narrow compass of its own artifice.

He feels stale and out of sorts: he moves within the narrow compass of his mind, utterly devoid of fresh ideas.