Sentence examples for mere outlines from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

But over all, he doesn't seem to have been able to overcome the burden of the real history to which his narrative hews; he has not made Arnold more interesting or compelling than the mere outline of his famous acts suggests.

However, the work presented in Table 2 is not directly comparable; our motivation is to mere outline the effectiveness of the proposed work.

Unlike serious pornographers, "Larkin sketches a mere outline and then walks away with a snigger".

Each passage is fine in and of itself, but the cumulative effect is counterproductive: all you get is a mere outline of the story you aren't being told when Souvenir is best at offering up Moukarzel's story of reading the books and how they seeped into his life.

Although the three-quarter pose suggests the merest outlines of the dress, the burr of the drypoint tool evokes the velvet fabric.

Mr. Kormakur is not unlike Hlynur: it is as if the director thinks it is enough to offer the merest outlines of the possible relationships and wait for his cast to sort them out.