Sentence examples for A sketchy outline from inspiring English sources

Wolfe himself sees the trappings of science fiction and fantasy, the spaceships and so on, as simply "a sketchy outline of the things that can be done".

What is more, Baricco's retelling is extremely short – only 55 pages – which only allows for a sketchy outline of the story and characters.

Although it is still too early in the publishing season for anyone to know the Gunnar Szolky story in full, the writer has gleaned enough to give us a sketchy outline of the extraordinary dimensions of the Szolky saga.

Today, as publishers eschew the finished manuscript and spit out contracts based on a sketchy outline or even less, the scripting of rejection letters has become something of a lost art.

It would be followed by a second stage for Iran to begin accepting a series of curbs on its nuclear activities that would be matched by a step-by-step easing of Western sanctions, in particular the embargo on Iran's oil and gas exports and financial measures that have hit its trade with the rest of the world.As yet only a sketchy outline of the Iranian proposal is in the public domain.

It's a sketchy outline at best.

He devised his theory of a sun-centered universe in about 1510, and then rebuffed all pleas to publish (beyond a frustratingly sketchy outline he distributed) for three decades after.

Here, although our sympathies lie with Dawson ― who does her best with the sketchy outline of a character ― it's Heigl's Tessa who walks away with the movie.

This sketchy outline is just the barest framework of the play — like saying "Hamlet" is about a Danish prince who hates his stepdad.

But those and many other protections were missing from the sketchy outline of the tribunals proposed in the president's order.

Sketchy outline: dialed. .