Sentence examples for the basic picture is from inspiring English sources

The basic picture is that we've seen a more or less complete takeover of macro by an approach that hasn't remotely earned the right to that kind of dominance.

As I've been reporting since I camped with scientists on the drifting, chugging sea ice near the North Pole in 2003, the basic picture is of a warming system (oceans and atmosphere) in which open water eventually dominates in late summer — for better and worse, depending on your vantage point.

This complication aside, the basic picture is reasonably clear.

The basic picture is this: Hatchlings head out to sea to avoid fish, sharks, and other predators.

The same basic picture is found fairly explicitly in Saussure and other influential theorists.

This basic picture was explained as owing to differences in the courses of evolutionary change that stars with similar compositions but different masses would follow after long intervals of time.

Those figures will probably improve over the next couple of years, but not by enough to change the basic picture: Britain is stuck with the same busted economic model that tipped it into the crash.

7, 8 The basic picture that emerged is that image features, including luminance, contrast, and edge density all differ between fixated locations and control locations.

Those numbers could differ in other forests, but the basic picture would likely be the same, McIver says.

I am talking about the basic picture of the world economy that people, especially people who hold positions of authority and influence — the sort of people who go to Davos — carry around in their heads.

Although 5% to 10% moves are frightening, they don't change the basic picture of the investment climate.