Sentence examples for mere outline from inspiring English sources

This book, in my hand, of over a hundred pages, for example, is a mere outline, mere index, setting forth the documents in the case against Hermann Goering.

The simplest figures are mere outline drawings, but the majority combine this technique with sophisticated shading and colour washes that modulate the surface and suggest the differing textures of pelts, horn, and bone.

The woodcut "Middleman" by Seanna Noonan of Manhattan, has a strongly delineated man and woman in 1950's clothes flanking the mere outline of a figure who perhaps represents the decade's less ebullient side.

Sometimes the melody dwindled to a mere outline, like a bald patch in an old tapestry; at other times it withdrew behind a gentle overlay of modern harmonies, which slightly distorted it, as if viewed through rippled glass.

As the water evaporates, observe a huge, aqueous chef rise up from below roiling waves — a mere outline, wobbly and dotted — and into the air, still dotted but a little less wavy.

It continues like this, old and new songs tracing the mere outline of a creative trajectory that now stands as arguably the finest post-punk back catalogue in pop.

Shonibare began by distilling the photograph down to its essentials, reducing the RA courtyard to mere outlines and the crowd to a ground of intense black.

Among the decent homes in Smothers's neighborhood are others so burned-through that they are mere outlines — a wooden beam suggesting a structure, a pile of rocks that might have been a porch.

What makes the use of Britten's music in "Moonrise Kingdom" — especially the children's opera "Noye's Fludde" — so transformative is its place at the core of the story, and not just in the mere outlines of its plot.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet What makes the use of Britten's music in "Moonrise Kingdom" — especially the children's opera "Noye's Fludde" — so transformative is its place at the core of the story, and not just in the mere outlines of its plot.

Light to guide in an analysis of the contentions concerning the asserted repugnancy of the section to the Constitution will be afforded by giving at once the merest outline of some of the comprehensive provisions of the act of which it forms a part.