(n.) A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.
(n.) A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The anthology can be organised in any way they want – it can be themed, or it can be issue-led ... anything they choose.
(2) The Guardian’s own readers’ anthology of dubious deals – crusty rolls 40p, two for £1!
(3) This was a time when the publication of an anthology launched under the council's auspices was hardly calculated to produce favour- able reviews, however illustrious the editor.
(4) Each of the 75 secondary children chose one piece of their best work to go into an anthology, which we published.
(5) Discussing activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s anthology, Why Are faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?” , academic Alex Rowlson finds that the increasing phenomenon of profiles on gay men’s dating sites that contain exclusion lists like “no blacks; no Asians; no fats; no femmes; str8-acting only” is indicative of a significant undercurrent; that “ the culture of sexual liberation has been replaced by sexual segregation .” I read a staggering piece recently, entitled Why I No Longer Want To Be Gay .
(6) Photograph: National Gallery of Ireland The pieces will be published on 6 October in the anthology Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art , edited by Janet McLean, the gallery’s curator of European art 1850-1950, with each writer’s text illustrated with the painting that inspired it.
(7) Moore had contributed an essay on women's anger to an anthology of polemical writing.
(8) Kiri Hart, vice-president of development for Lucasfilm, said that the anthology films would vary in “scale and genre”.
(9) Damián Szifrón's Wild Tales is a gruesome, violent anthology from Argentina.
(10) The first is Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, which debuts in December 2016.
(11) Rosenthal himself was busy by then on a script for The System, a Granada anthology series dedicated to the theme of management, or the outwitting of it.
(12) We will run our own public awareness campaigns; create our own resources, like our first IndigenousX anthology of 22 Indigenous writers, due for release in October.
(13) A collection of good Day jokes would fill a minor anthology.
(14) In a series of fantastic short films for Christmas, as well as in such anthology series as Dead of Night , the BBC (and especially Lawrence Gordon Clark ) turned out a number of small masterpieces: Jonathan Miller's Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968), Gordon Clark's The Signalman – Dickens adapted by Andrew Davies – (1976) and Leslie Megahey's Schalcken the Painter (1979) especially stand out.
(15) Like its cable-dwelling sister American Horror Story, Scream Queens will be presented as an anthology, with each season taking on a new plot, villain, hero and narrative trajectory.
(16) She calls her fans little monsters, and now Lady Gaga is going to be the biggest monster of them all on the next season of FX’s horror anthology show American Horror Story.
(17) It can be surprising to remember that Klein's immense global influence rests on a relatively small body of work; she has published three books, one of which is an anthology of magazine pieces.
(18) The winning anthology will be announced three months after the closing date, and it will be published by Picador with a foreword by Duffy, who will also visit the winning school.
(19) In this short "anthology," the various neurologic and neuropsychologic aspects of brain injury are illustrated by quotations from the Bible, literature, poetry, and history.
(20) "What I'd like to do is create anthologies for other school subjects – for history, for geography, for maths," she says.
Miscellany
Definition:
(n.) A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.
(a.) Miscellaneous; heterogeneous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other infants, dying of unexplained respiratory illness, may have this disorder and some may be included in the miscellany of disorders that constitute the sudden infant death syndrome.
(2) Beverly died in 2013. Letters: John Berger obituary Read more Last year saw the premiere in Berlin of the film The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger , directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin McCabe, Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz, and the publication of Confabulations, a miscellany of essays and drawings.
(3) Mortimer's Miscellany ran for a month at the King's Head, Islington, north London, in 2007.
(4) My approach had always been more of a woozy supermarket sweep, and it meant I'd built up a curious one-track miscellany.
(5) If the owner of this odd miscellany, a Victorian lawyer with an elaborate Ex Libris plate, hadn’t underlined the words “A Brief Description of the Portrait of Prince Charles, afterwards Charles the First, painted at Madrid in 1623 by Velasquez [sic]” on the contents page, I might not have noticed it.
(6) Over the years, two more novels, three miscellanies and the memoirs followed.
(7) Strains of R. japonicum and the cowpea miscellany displayed all three types, while strains of R. leguminosarum, R. phaseoli, and R. trifolii did not reduce nitrate by dissimilatory means.
(8) On the one hand, the proposed system would be a welcome simplification relative to the current complex miscellany of rules, and would give individuals much greater clarity over what state pension income they could expect in retirement.
(9) Immunodiffusion reactions were studied with seven strains of Rhizobium japonicum and three strains of the cowpea miscellany by using antisera against eight of the strains.
(10) It’s some of the best stuff she’s done since the 2008 RNC (before she devolved into speeches composed of a miscellany of punchlines and red-meat-for-the-rubes bumper stickering).
(11) • £4.95 adult, £2.50 child, nationaltrust.org.uk , 028 7084 8728 The House of McDonnell, Ballycastle, County Antrim This is a proper old world classic (the interior was last revamped in 1870) – Bakelite switches and coat hooks beneath the counter, a keyhole clock that gongs above the bar, shelves of bottled miscellany, distillers’ mirrors, daylight filtering in through red Bristol glass.
(12) This miscellany of sketches drawn by a Nurse Reeve in 1883-1887 consists of the following: first, talipes and genu recurvatum.
(13) In addition there are a variety of cystic neoplasms and a miscellany of unusual forms.
(14) Scientific medicine is always encircled by a miscellany of medical fantasies, which come and go, and which offer a short-cut to diagnosis and treatment, and (very occasionally) both together.