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Example sentences for: compendium

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The architecture here is a wonderful compendium of French Romanesque, German Gothic, and Italian Renaissance.
USA Today leads with a compendium of Y2K alarms from aviation bigwigs, congressional reports, and the CIA.
For this aspect of L2 writing, incidentally, advanced Russian-speaking students of English may have recourse to the excellent English-Russian Synonym Dictionary , by A.A. Rozenman and Y.D. Apresyan (Russki Yazyk Publishing House, 1980); this compendium contains 350 synonymic series, and each article in the dictionary explains the meaning of the lexemes comprising the synonymic series, provides a best approximation translation, and--crucially--supplies a detailed characterization of the similarities and differences between the synonyms, offering at the same time an analysis of the conditions in which each synonym is appropriate and where they may substitute for each other.
P leasantville suggests that '50s fashions for women have now come to mean what female Victorian clothing used to mean in the 1920s--not just clothes in a different style, but a metaphor, a compendium of ridiculous and unnatural devices invented to dishonor female life and liberty.
Ann Castle deserves congratulations for her prodigious compendium of philanthropic donations in the " Slate 60."