If one suspends judgement and looks at a cross-section of these novels, one comes away quite impressed.
In short, the whole project was carefully designed to produce a comprehensive visual cross-section of society in motion.
The arrow indicates the actin cable, seen in cross-section.
The league brings together a cross-section of Tucson, the young and old, the movers and shakers.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE►wide
· The steering group is working with a wide cross-section of the industry to specify Occupational Standards.· Forbes showed consistent appeal across a wide cross-section of voters.· With the widest fuselage cross-section in its category, the A321 offers the highest standard of passenger comfort.
VERB►represent
· Make sure that any sub-committees represent a genuine cross-section of the whole group, including different types of governor.· But the Hopkins surveys were done in large community-based primary care practices that represented a cross-section of the population.
1something that has been cut in half so that you can look at the inside, or a drawing of thiscross-section of a cross-section of a plant stemin cross-section The roof beams were 50 centimetres square in cross-section.2a group of people or things that is typical of a much larger group → samplecross-section of a wide cross-section of the taxpaying population