Sentence examples for sketchy figure from inspiring English sources

Barely visible on the grass beneath the tree is a whimsical, sketchy figure of a woman holding an umbrella.

On the walls hangs a suite of smallish, roughly poetic watercolors in which sketchy figures appear upside down (Ken Johnson).

Paul Tatum, who appears as an even sketchier figure in Pearson's novel "Blue Ridge" (along with his cousin Ray) is so distracted that he never gets around to sharing some vital information.

The technique of painting in white overglaze pigment on the blue-white glaze, called bianco sopra bianco ("white on white"), was effectively employed; purple and blue were also used in decoration, which mostly took the form of sketchy flowers, figures, and scrollwork, sometimes in the "Chinese" style.

The two agencies based their estimate on sketchy population figures for the Irawaddy delta.

Around this time, too, he painted a group of semi-abstract New York cityscapes in which crowds of sketchy, ill-defined figures mill against massings of glamorous skyscrapers.

Sim plays counterpoint melodies on his bass, while Croft plays angular figures, sketchy musical patterns, and melodies developed from two-note intervals; Price likens Croft's use of the guitar to playing a harp.

The crowd figure is sketchy, too - some said a couple of dozen, others 2,000.

Whether the Christian gospels are read as historical record or as imaginative literature, they offer only a sketchy portrait of the figure later writers and artists would call "God-bearer" and portray as the equal of God, enthroned in heaven opposite him, seemingly part of God as He was once part of her.

Press reports indicate that the number of Iraqis in prison doubled over the last year, to 30,000 from 15,000; and while casualty figures are sketchy, military officials told USA Today last September that the number of insurgents killed was already 25percentt higher in 2007 than in all of 2006.

Sketchy images of two figures, a skull, and what might be plants are incidental to the novelty of a medium associated with kitsch.