Sentence examples for sketchy outlines from inspiring English sources

Americans knew only sketchy outlines of Dwight D. Eisenhower's heart problems, compared with what they would know today.

And then, gradually, she even transcends it -- again as Ms. Gish did -- by acting, filling in the sketchy outlines of her character with nothing but delicate shifts of expression in her big brown eyes.

Whoever heard of a punk singer lilting: "Jesus, help me find my proper place?" What did it mean to "put jelly on your shoulder?" In Lou Reed's refusal to be categorisable, I saw the sketchy outlines of a way of being that might actually work for me.

The sketchy outlines of Charles Cullen's life, gleaned from the vague recollections of those who know him and the few official papers on which his name appears, suggest a story of a childhood marred by the early death of his father, a troubled career as a nurse, a bankruptcy, more than one suicide attempt and a divorce.

She marries a haute-naif aesthetic of thick lines, blocky color, proto-Cubist mannerism, and collapsed perspective with a visual lexicon of knights errants and dogged explorers, sea monsters and tall ships, architectural ruins and sketchy outlines of uncharted territories.

Wolfe himself sees the trappings of science fiction and fantasy, the spaceships and so on, as simply "a sketchy outline of the things that can be done".

But those and many other protections were missing from the sketchy outline of the tribunals proposed in the president's order.

This sketchy outline is just the barest framework of the play — like saying "Hamlet" is about a Danish prince who hates his stepdad.

What is more, Baricco's retelling is extremely short – only 55 pages – which only allows for a sketchy outline of the story and characters.

Although it is still too early in the publishing season for anyone to know the Gunnar Szolky story in full, the writer has gleaned enough to give us a sketchy outline of the extraordinary dimensions of the Szolky saga.

He devised his theory of a sun-centered universe in about 1510, and then rebuffed all pleas to publish (beyond a frustratingly sketchy outline he distributed) for three decades after.