Sentence examples for gets down to basics from inspiring English sources

All stylistic posturing vanishes when this book gets down to basics, creating a classic detective-story puzzle around the facts of the girl's disappearance.

"Getting down to basics is never very romantic.

Let's drop the labels and get down to basics.

Although Johnson had a complex defensive philosophy, he could get down to basics when discussing it.

I needed to get down to basics and — to paraphrase George W. Bush on Vladimir Putin — catch a glimpse of Sichuan's soul.

Also on Saturday, Nissequogue River State Park in Kings Park will get down to basics with a Saltwater Fly Fishing and Spin Fishing Clinic and Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Information: (631) 581-1072.

To help ensure no surprises crop up, Ms. Tharp now requires that the bride, the bridegroom and both sets of parents (or sometimes more, if stepparents are involved) fill out questionnaires before they even get down to basics.

YadaYada.com, which provides wireless Web access to users of P.D.A.'s, those palm-size digital helpers, has gotten down to basics with its latest information service: a listing of public bathrooms in 12 North American cities.

It's reassuring to know that most people you meet – when you get down to basics – share the simple belief that men and women are equal and should be treated as such.

Here the impulse to get down to basics asserts itself in rigorously spare, black ink compositions: a single vertical mark at the top of a page; two vertical lines from top to bottom; a horizontal line meeting a vertical line; a sagging, flat-bottomed circle made with short strokes as though by a careful child.

While movie critics have been going into raptures over The Conjuring – comparing its director James Wan to David Lynch, calling his direction "rhapsodic", finding his film "a metaphor for moviegoing itself" – horror afficionados have been getting down to basics: how many jump scares does it have?