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...Richard Rorty is correct that "moral progress is a matter of wider and wider sympathy. It is not a matter of rising above the sentimental to the rational"... For aid in developing these capacities Rorty looks to literature, to him a compendium of images and narratives designed to widen our sympathies by moving us. (source)
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RegretTheError.com publishes a regularly updated compendium of mistakes reported in the news media.compendium = a list of items or a collection
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The book is called A Concise Compendium of Clinical Pathology.
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On his spice shelves was a compendium of the world's predilections and in his cooler a comprehensive survey of birds and beasts hanging from hooks by their feet.† (source)compendium = a list of items or a collection; or a summary of a subject area
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A Compendium of Common Curses and their Counter-Actions...The Dark Arts Outsmarted...Self-Defensive Spellwork...wow...† (source)
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There was an advertisement for Hermes Delivery Service, and another for the All-New Compendium of L.A. Area Monsters—"The only Monstrous Yellow Pages you'll ever need!† (source)
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Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if it were not a religion but a compendium of funeral conventions.† (source)compendium = a list of items or a collection; or a summary of a subject area
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Everything," said Max, reciting from Rowan's compendiums.† (source)
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He went to his bookcase to retrieve his Rowan Compendium of Known Enemies.† (source)
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I never read about one in the compendiums.† (source)
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The Jade Compendium.† (source)
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Few, however, were able to acquire a compendium, for they were exceedingly rare and those who already owned them almost never parted with them willingly.† (source)
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I had abominable dreams—which seemed to be a compendium of all the tales of Edgar Allan Poe: myself being split in twain by monstrous mechanisms, drowned in a whirling vortex of mud, being immured in stone and, most fearsomely, buried alive.† (source)
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In a burst of self-directed fury, he threw the Compendium across the room with all the force he could muster.† (source)
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Compared to the Yamacraw children, everyone I brought to the island was a compendium of ideas and experience, and the one transcendent problem of all who came to the classroom was the intelligent condensation and control of the material they wished to present.† (source)
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There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.† (source)
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