Sentence examples for sketchy notion from inspiring English sources

Many architectural renderings look like spaceships, but this one really looked like a spaceship, a sleek, sketchy notion of the future that seemed bound to grow dated within five years.

Many younger Britons have only sketchy notions of George VI, perhaps knowing he reigned during the second world war and fathered the present monarch, Elizabeth II.

Despite living in Britain for many years, she has only the sketchiest notion of what the place is like.

More than 10 years after the war in Afghanistan began, we have only the sketchiest notion of how many people have died as a consequence of the conflict.

In one of the book's later chapters, Firestone floated a "sketchy" futuristic notion that she intended only "to stimulate thinking in fresh areas rather than to dictate the action".

But a literal-minded re-creation of "Gatsby" would probably have been as stultifying as one of those Shakespeare revivals in which every effort is made to duplicate our sketchy historical notions of Elizabethan stagecraft.

But data to back up the notion is sketchy, said Dr. Maltman, a professor of earth sciences at the University of Wales.

The works date from 1868, when Mancini was a 16-year-old prodigy, to 1929, just before his death, when he rounded out a sketchy self-portrait with diaristic notions in bright red paint.

It's even there in the gleeful cruelty of Scaramanga's dwarf sidekick, Nick Nack (an effortless assemblage of offensive notions in one sketchy character), who hires killers to take out his boss, with the boss's full approval.

The core solution — as stated in Title II of the Dodd-Frank reforms — is predicated on the notion that the problem wasn't Lehman's overinvestment in sketchy real estate deals but rather that the U.S. government did not have the powers it needed to wind it down.

Critics (e.g. van Fraassen 1989) question the rather nebulous notion of "balancing" simplicity and strength, which are themselves somewhat sketchy.