Sentence examples for in its outlines from inspiring English sources
I've read the transcript of Landesman's interview with Andrea, and despite some internal contradictions, it is impossible not to believe it in its outlines and in much of its detail.
While its mountainous foreground is a fantasia of landscape, the plain in the distance rolling away towards the sea resembles a map in its outlines of fields.
In its outlines — a man of power humbled — the case (and Graff's hauteur) evokes that of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chairman of the International Monetary Fund accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel worker.
That morning, however, still haunted by his dream, and so full of concern about his play, he saw her as merely a name in his diary, stirring an old memory sharp in its outlines and faded in its detail.
Olds came of artistic age during feminism's second wave, and her biography, in its outlines, looks like a certain kind of classic women's-movement narrative: an élite education as a preamble to marriage; marriage; and then the shock of a belated creative awakening.
The Kipling letter says: "I am afraid that all that code in its outlines has been manufactured to meet 'the necessities of the case': though a little of it is bodily taken from (Southern) Esquimaux rules for the division of spoils".
As the horse closes in, its outline becomes clear: thank goodness, it is attached to a cart, and the driver is fully human and has a head.
In its outline, Hogan's story closely resembles that of the stereotypical compulsive gambler.
But the story is now complete in its outline, if not its details, and Trump's culpability is clear to anyone who cares to look.
