Sentence examples for thinly described from inspiring English sources

The mother is thinly described but invested with the kind of unwitting charisma that makes everyone fall in love with her; thus Clarissa is at the end of a very long line.

There are some great moments and interesting ideas and concepts (they have razor-sharp thumbnails rather than fangs) but every plus is countered by a minus, such as a clumsy lurch in the narrative or a thinly described character.

However, fleetingly, the 42-year-old Labour leader did seem to cast himself in a new light — no longer as a distant intellectual lacking charisma or evident leadership qualities but as the best-placed campaigner to pursue what he called "one nation" politics embracing all social groups and what his critics described as thinly veiled class struggle.

City commissioners voted today to prohibit people from living in public spaces, a move that the American Civil Liberties Union described as a thinly veiled attack on the homeless.

Ephron bristled whenever her book was described as a "thinly disguised novel" ("the words 'thinly disguised' are applied mostly to books by women") and anyway, as she put it, triumphantly and rightly: "One of the things I'm proudest of is that I managed to convert an event that seemed to me hideously tragic at the time to a comedy – and if that's not fiction, I don't know what is".

Then, in what could be described as a thinly veiled form of damage control, the NIH convinced President Bill Clinton to sign the CHIMP Act in 2000, which helped establish the National Chimpanzee Sanctuary System.

The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has tonight made what can only be described as a thinly-disguised attack on the German government's refusal to spend and borrow more to promote growth throughout the eurozone.

He described such programs as thinly disguised marketing.

India's trade minister described the opposition as thinly veiled "racism".

They described it as a thinly veiled attack on those who hold traditional rather than liberal values.

The link brought users to an article by The Washington Examiner with the campaign's response, including a comment from the campaign spokesman, J.D. Gordon, who described the accusations as "thinly sourced allegations".