Sentence examples for grazed the surface from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, it's a fair bet that The Devil Wears Prada barely grazed the surface of Anna Wintour's foibles.

While I watched, the gentle giants floated past me, foraging on the aquatic plants while their backs and flat noses grazed the surface.

And unlike what many like to pretend, having been somewhere on holiday doesn't count towards shaping your identity vis a vis another place: you've only grazed the surface of another culture and its people, if hitting tourist spots counts.

Still, Mr. Peralta worried that the money would just graze the surface of the problem.

Oil paint grazes the surface like a brass rubbing; watercolour tinges the page with delicate light.

And although between them they hold a fair amount of material, they only graze the surface of their huge subject.

It's stark enough, yet this dance merely grazes the surface of emotions without ever penetrating them.

There is already more than enough to contend with in this survey, which fills the Chinese painting galleries and still barely grazes the surface of its complicated subject.

In his prep kitchen he waves the translucent, brownish-red sheets of untoasted nori over a steel disk set on a burner, letting them graze the surface until they turn the familiar dark green.

But this, according to the agency's director-general, Lanre Ipinmisho, is just grazing the surface of the country's booming drug trade.West Africa is the newest centre for trafficking drugs into Europe.

His hand, holding the brush, streaks across the canvas, the line proliferating like the vapour trail it represents; or slows down to graze the surface so that one has the sense of moisture freezing on the aircraft or condensing in shifting clouds.