Sentence examples for a few brushstrokes from inspiring English sources

(It is an almost Magrittean fact that painters can call paint flesh, coloured mud a face, a few brushstrokes a tree).

The early work of Lautrec shows how he painted his way to greatness, often using cardboard on which he would capture an image with a few brushstrokes.

And except for a few brushstrokes -- just 12 pages in a 363-page book -- and some concluding flourishes, Kramer's account of the history is just about done.

With a few brushstrokes, he sketched the tapering outline of his building as seen at some distance, added a strip of green to evoke Chicago's waterfront, a wash of blue to suggest the lake, and some brownish blocks to stand in for the rest of the city's skyline.

All these qualities, along with his capacity for placing his floundering, aspiring heroes, with a few brushstrokes, in a multilayered evocation of the world in which they must struggle to survive, make of him one of the most individual, humane, and perpetually contemporary of novelists.

He produced only 30 in all -- a mere side dish in an oeuvre that includes some memorably grisly scenes from hospitals and brothels, backdrops for theaters and fairgrounds, newspaper cartoons and book illustrations and a whole gallery of portraits that seem to condense entire life stories into a few brushstrokes.

Very few brushstrokes are needed to get a portrait walking; and surely, as a corollary, the reader can get as much from small, short-lived, even rather flat characters as from large, "round", towering heroes and heroines.

Its "rewind" feature lets users twist two fingers in a counterclockwise motion to erase their last few brushstrokes.

Faceless figures drawn with a few quick brushstrokes inhabit the backgrounds.

Subtleties of human personality it might take thousands of words to establish are here articulated by way of a few confident brushstrokes.

My favourite painting there is Meryon by Franz Kline: what looks like a few spontaneous brushstrokes is actually the result of rigorous reworking; it's hard to comprehend how you can make something so beautiful using only two colours.