gatherum

The Watchmen are really an ‘omnium gatherum’, but the author goes a long way – Moore uses flashback narration – to portray the personalities of masked men and what makes them tick.

Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons - Watchmen (Graphic Novel Review) 2008

The Watchmen are really an ‘omnium gatherum’, but the author goes a long way – Moore uses flashback narration – to portray the personalities of masked men and what makes them tick.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

Each omnium gatherum exposed hundreds of new pieces in indigestible overload exacerbated by too-close groupings in too-cavernous medieval chambers ill-suited for the display of contemporary art.

The Late Show Filler, Martin 2009

I won't sink into pretension and argue that it is an art form, but I will say that it's far more than an omnium-gatherum of detritus, as its mocking gallery insists it is.

Adam Hanft: Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life 2009

D&D was originally as artificial as chess: ill-assorted groups of ‘adventurers’, patterned vaguely after the Fellowship of the Ring, wandering through improbably spacious underground complexes excavated for no clear reason, practising aggravated assault and grand larceny on an omnium gatherum of exotic monsters.

Campbell’s Cream of Fantasy superversive 2006

One party in which I participated was, or rather played, a group of irregulars in the service of a baron whose domain was beset by ogres, pirates, and assorted menaces from the omnium gatherum of the Monster Manual.

Quakers in Spain superversive 2006

In a very few months, her cheeks were blooming and dimpling with smiles again, and she was telling us how her party was an omnium gatherum.

The Newcomes 2006

I never can pass without delaying at the windows — indeed, if I were going to be hung, I would beg the cart to stop, and let me have one look more at that delightful omnium gatherum.

Roundabout Papers 2006

The expression on the right side, introduced by a coupling constant that contains Newton's gravitational constant, mathematically represents the non-gravitational sources of the gravitational field in a region of spacetime in the form of a stress-energy-momentum tensor (an "omnium gatherum" in Eddington's pithy phrase (1919, 63)).

Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity Ryckman, Thomas A. 2006

She tossed up her little head in conversation with me, and gave me to understand that this party was only an omnium gatherum, not one of the select parties, from which

The Newcomes 2006