Sentence examples for thumbnail from inspiring English sources

(That, by the way, is my thumbnail sketch of the 1920s).

Let me try to help.I find Vernon Smith (a brilliant Nobel laureate) and Steven Gerstad's thumbnail account of the bubbly run-up to the crisis compelling:[T]he largest [housing bubble] in U.S. history started in 1997, probably sparked by rising household income that began in 1992 combined with the elimination in 1997 of taxes on residential capital gains up to $500,000.

However a draft version was more ambitious, showing the interrelationships among the three categories using a technique called "parallel coordinates" (see the thumbnail chart on the top right).

SAARLAND, the smallest German state without the excuse of being just a city, is a thumbnail caricature of Germany.

As a thumbnail sketch, that's apt enough.

Existing versions of this electrode are small enough to fit into a mobile phone and Mr Yang claims they will soon be shrunk to the size of a thumbnail, enabling people to wear them without noticing.Reducing the mind-reader to this bare minimum makes it cheap about $20, compared with several hundred for Emotiv's headset though it is not as precise.

The official website includes an interactive graphic (accessible by clicking the thumbnail image to the right) showing how population levels, population density and the resulting apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives have changed over the past 100 years.

No character gets away without a distracting thumbnail biography going back to his farmyard childhood in the Midwest, or wherever.

But for much of the novel, Mr Updike seems to be sleep-walking, mechanically referencing Haight-Ashbury or "Shampoo" to thumbnail an era.

As a young man he worked with Nancy Lancaster, an influential designer-decorator, and draws an evocative thumbnail sketch of her, as a woman who "spent money as freely as water from her garden hose", and her garden, with its tumbling roses and "Italian cypresses whose leaves smelt of paper in old books".

So are thumbnail illustrations of every work the artist mentions (whether by himself or by others) plus larger reproductions of paintings based on these letter sketches.The Van Gogh Museum is marking the publication of the letters by rehanging its permanent collection and displaying 100 letters.