Sentence examples for some broad strokes from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Broad strokes.

If something is described or defined with broad stokes, then only an outline is given, without fine details.

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Eron Shosteck, a spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said: "They've painted some broad strokes, but we need to see the fine print.

While some broad strokes are known about Palantir's relationship with spy agencies, the finer points seldom see daylight.

You don't need to show all the line items, but some broad strokes can certainly help answer some potential questions.

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One of the show's executive producers, Nancy Hult Ganis, was a Pan Am flight attendant for seven years, beginning in 1969, so I'm guessing that the series will have some broad-stroke accuracy, though the first episode, despite a plot line that introduces a believable note of Cold War dread and paranoia into the show, has worrisome melodramatic tendencies and a network-TV obviousness.

Though psychologists have identified some broad-stroke reasons behind suicide, they equally agree it's never one thing that leads people to take their own lives.

I'm sharing some highlights in broad strokes and in language that everyone and anyone can understand.

As usual, at some point, an attempt at broad strokes forgets the reality and relativity of specific situations.

And he has talked, in broad strokes, about some of the possible solutions: hiring more police, seeking alternatives to failing public schools, increasing the city's stock of affordable housing and steering more city contracts to companies owned and staffed by Newark residents.

Well, some of the details are hard to ascertain, but the broad strokes are clear.

Why the broad strokes?

Accordingly, everything is drawn in broad strokes.

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