compendious

How To Use compendious In A Sentence

• His compendious book, then, ranges from dry speculation on geology to exquisite description of flora, spangled with remarkably apt epigrams.
• Given the compendious nature of Wood's works, this is hardly surprising, of course.
• Apparently the compendious works on Chicago history by John Kirkland had not been consulted.
• His book is compendious in its scope, taking in three decades of street life in Los Angeles, a century of the city's police force, and a dramatis personae that runs to five and a half pages.
• Peter Sheppard Skærved, who writes the compendious notes, wonders if Beethoven himself might have written the adagio variation.
• Another cause is, for that it is briefer & more compendious, and easier to beare away and be retained in memorie, then that which is contained in multitude of words and full of tedious ambage and long periods. The Arte of English Poesie
• The movie also sketches in the five-year-long, globe-girdling voyage during which he collected the compendious data for his book, along with much peripheral information about his health (wretched), his relationship with his devoutly religious wife (strained) and his apparently never-ending connection to his dead 10-year-old daughter (feverish). Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Creation’ » MTV Movies Blog
• Her writing is elegant, the record compendious.
• So began an on-again/off-again romance fully charted in this compendious collection of Marcus's occasional writings on his hero. Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus – review
• The second limb is concerned with what, for want of a better compendious description, can be called the liability of an accessory to a trustee's breach of trust.