Sentence examples for sketchy reference from inspiring English sources

But unlike Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Passover (or even the lesser-known Sukkot and Shavuot), all of which are explicitly mentioned in the Torah, Hanukkah gets only a brief, sketchy reference in the Talmud, the voluminous collection of Jewish oral law and tradition written down hundreds of years after the Maccabees' revolt.

There is only a sketchy reference in the old Viking legends to the sunstone.

The Tsipras letter contained only a single sketchy reference to labor market reform, which was one of the creditors' demands to make the Greek economy more competitive.

Sketchy reference was also made to cleaning teeth in order to maintain good oral hygiene [ 18, 20- 23], although flossing has also been reported [ 22, 24].

He never spoke of dark emotions, though I recalled sketchy references to his unhappy childhood, much of it a result of an array of stepmothers.

The science curricula of the other two grades (fifth and sixth) included short sketchy references to concepts relative to the evolution of the organisms, e.g., fossils, pre-historic animals, etc.

For references to Descartes' sketchy and perhaps only partial functional view of pleasure, on which Spinoza presumably built, see n. 3, 3, above (and especially CSM II, p. 57; AT VII, p. 83 from Meditation VI and the Passions passage cited there).

Details about his replacement are sketchy at this point, although some oblique reference was made to the hero being … "you".

The film also shows her theorizing that our planetary system is heliocentric more than a millennium before Copernicus and Galileo argued that the earth is not the center of the universe, but the historical record, while full of references to her brilliance, is sketchy on that point.

I am not a great fan of reference-shelf travel books, which often are full of sketchy information and almost invariably out of date upon publication.

Historian Howard Nelson states that, although the accounts of Zhang Heng's work in cartography are somewhat vague and sketchy, there is ample written evidence that Pei Xiu derived the use of the rectangular grid reference from the maps of Zhang Heng.