| 单词 | sketchily |
| 例句 | Unlike the characters in Mr. Lethem’s recent novels, such protagonists are a sketchily defined lot — crudely carved chess pieces that he moves about mechanically to illustrate his plot points. Review: ‘Lucky Alan,’ Jonathan Lethem’s Dreamlike Tales of Seclusion 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Basically, this is a pretty self-indulgent personal project, sketchily conceived and not particularly well acted. Film review: Wah Do Dem 2010-08-26T21:40:00Z In “The Big Day,” the narrator sketchily recalls dropping by a neighbor’s house, perhaps to return something, though she doesn’t clearly remember what brought her there. The innovative, beguiling reflections of Claire-Louise Bennett's 'Pond' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Admired by Duchamp, Eilshemius populated sketchily painted landscapes that could have sustained more development with ineptly rendered women and nymphs that probably could not. Review: Maureen Gallace, Lynda Barry, and Louis M. Eilshemius and Bob Thompson 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Her style is ostensibly expressionist, loosely and sometimes sketchily painted but almost always given a weird specificity, thanks to an eye or mouth rendered with photo-realistic precision. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Because we’re not connected to the lost child — who is only sketchily drawn — we struggle to become involved in her fate in any kind of personal way or understand her import in the town. 'Star Witness': Small-town girl, pedaling for her own good 2011-03-28T22:13:46Z The realities of war and his own ethnic identity induce a change of heart in Rahim, though it's often difficult to remember there's a war on, the period is so sketchily evoked. Free Men – review 2012-05-24T21:01:01Z Nor do their sketchily rendered faces reveal aggression, pain or fear. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The political background is sketchily and confusingly handled. Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro – review 2013-07-04T21:00:03Z His streamlined, sketchily drawn style showed the influence of earlier New Yorker cartoonists such as James Thurber, Otto Soglow and Saul Steinberg. Charles Barsotti, New Yorker cartoonist known for his simplicity, dies at 80 Characters are sketchily drawn, as if they were TV players, and a number of scenes are written in teleplay format as if to highlight the blurry line between reality and imagination. George Pelecanos' 'Martini Shot' short stories colorful but confined 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z While some critics dismissed the records as grandiloquent and sketchily produced, we embraced their quirky storytelling and spontaneous energy. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z I only had to show them a fuzzy video clip of an owl on a skateboard, bake a lopsided Pikachu cake, or expound, sketchily, on gravity or the Vikings to be lauded a hero. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z It's well enough made, yet there's no convincing spark between the leads, and the younger generation's romantic crisis is sketchily motivated. Love Is All You Need – review 2013-04-18T20:30:01Z “Femenine” is notated, but sketchily so; the score consists of smallish cells of material that are repeated, and evolve. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The other three are more sketchily characterised, but Barter is endearing as the teenage Claire, torn between evangelical Christianity and her ambition to be a gothic-grunge guitarist. Huzzies – review 2012-10-29T17:41:28Z “Game of Thrones” serves up a lot of confusion in the name of no larger or really relevant idea beyond sketchily fleshed-out notions that war is ugly, families are insidious and power is hot. Television Review: A Fantasy World of Strange Feuding Kingdoms 2011-04-14T21:32:03Z What you see on the screen is this thing I wrote very sketchily in the mountains of Austria.” Film: Eastwood Breaks Another Mold 2010-10-14T15:50:00Z The part of Washington, Mr. Blacque later recalled, was sketchily written, and it was his choice to play the character as quiet and reflective. Taurean Blacque, Actor Best Known for ‘Hill Street Blues,’ Dies at 82 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z He remembers those years as a string of sketchily improvised celebrations. Art, Darling 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “Thirty Years of Mesons” notwithstanding, he withdrew into a life that is only sketchily explained here. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z The real-world characters are so hastily established and sketchily drawn that there’s nothing compelling or surprising in their metamorphoses. Review: Lost on a Magical Mystery Tour in ‘Alice by Heart’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z The weakness is that, as often with the hastily erected Serpentine pavilions, it's sketchily realised, without the sharpness of detail or thought that would make this the contemplative, resonant place that it ought to be. Heatherwick Studio; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – review 2012-06-02T23:05:42Z It doesn't matter that this is sketchily drawn. Tavaziva Dance ? review 2011-03-10T17:39:47Z Mr. Lewis is hampered more than most by a sketchily written character; still, he musters minimal passion and no simmering anger whatsoever in delivering this bitter, sorrowful and deeply moving song, the show’s most famous. New York Philharmonic Stages ‘Show Boat’ 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z But her white-and-blue sailor-suit costume is treated far more sketchily, with the grain of the canvas plainly visible beneath much of the paint. At the Frye: the curious case of Nicolai Fechin 2013-03-07T20:43:04Z There are airships, but they are very sketchily described and are apparently made in part of wood. ?John Carter,? Based on ?Princess of Mars? 2012-03-04T23:25:48Z Older actors usually get to play supporting parts which are sketchily or condescendingly conceived, in movies which are of varying quality, to say the least. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US: No 2 – 45 Years 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The complex issues surrounding the charges are only sketchily outlined, to the detriment of the proceedings; we’re given little indication as to whether Bilal was an active participant in a crime or an unwitting sympathizer. Review | The Atlas arts center, and its full theater menu, is a gem on H Street 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Geopolitical competition among colonial rivals England, Spain and America to map and claim possession of the sketchily charted Pacific Northwest coast approached a high-water mark. The Makah held their ground at Neah Bay through an incursion and a pandemic 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z This film is reminiscent of black-light posters and underground comics — though the overall approach is more innocent and hopeful than sketchily “adult.” French society in disarray, 'Cypress Hill' and other movies to watch this weekend 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z One of the catastrophes sketchily outlined by Gunderson is an accusation that arose in the press that raised ethical questions about the Ebola investigations by Wolfe’s team in West Africa in the mid-2010s. A new play mints a new dramatic star for our time: A virologist 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z He charged Biden and his family with demonstrably false old allegations and sketchily sourced and widely disavowed new ones. Sleepy Joe? In final debate, Biden navigated a minefield of Trump disruptions 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z In a noisily received Commons statement, Johnson began by explaining his idea of replacing the Irish backstop insurance policy with a somewhat sketchily outlined new regime of checks. PM to make whirlwind trip to EU capitals to sell his Brexit plan 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z As art history, "Genius: Picasso" is so far only sketchily enlightening, unless you count "An artist must always see below the surface" as a revelation. The artist, evolving and then fully formed in Nat Geo's ‘Genius: Picasso,’ starring Antonio Banderas 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z In the middle of the “Good Time” shoot he ended up at a precinct for an incident he sketchily described as involving a borrowed car, a suspended license and trunk contraband. Safdie brothers bring a New York flavor to breakout thriller 'Good Time' 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The characters are mostly sketchily drawn, with bad guys who are little more than caricatures of rustic bumpkins. Review | ‘Kidnap’: Halle Berry plays a mother who’ll stop at nothing to rescue her abducted son 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Musk proposes a fascinating, if sketchily drawn, vision. Elon Musk's master plan for Tesla is long on vision, short on specifics 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But, as historian David Cannadine points out in a fine, sceptical essay in a new book accompanying the exhibition, Holmes's London is actually only sketchily imagined in the stories. Sherlock Holmes: dispelling the myths 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The angry, foul-mouthed Rozie is sketchily drawn, but Lucy DeVito combines an aggressive manner with a sad look in her eyes to suggest the character’s ambivalent spirit. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘The Electric Baby,’ at Two River Theater Company 2013-04-27T01:35:41Z The government's official document sounds a rather sketchily outlined warning. Education in brief: Heads of the Roundtable start making a name for themselves 2012-10-29T19:30:01Z It was sketchily disguised as a measure to show the world that London – already recognised as a top shopping destination – was, as the prime minister likes to put it, open all hours. Sunday trading: the shopping Olympics 2012-08-19T21:18:11Z Sometimes the “Mesocosm” landscape, with a landfill sketchily outlined in the background, is left to the elements. | New Jersey: ?Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies and Others? at the Montclair Art Museum ? Review 2011-11-20T02:38:42Z So I won't attempt to remount the stream of time save the most sketchily in the world. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z "Of course, if you prefer not...." he suggested sketchily. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Behind him came a girl, rather sketchily dressed for autumn in a pair of bead portieres, a girdle or two, and a gilt plaster bird, which was bound firmly to her head. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z We learn that there were many courthouses in seventeenth-century Virginia, like that of 1690 in Northampton County, which is sketchily described as having one exterior chimney and as being twenty-five feet long. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Or again he would dash a few lines on the leaf of a note-book, indicate a design sketchily, and send the lad off again as fast as he could clatter down the stairs. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z It was characteristic of both of them that when they first discussed the venture the one had been content with sketchily outlining his plans, and the other had not demanded many details. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The sergeant obliged; aloud read sketchily from the filled-in courtesy card signed by his chief, the commissioner of police. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z His eyes narrowed sketchily across the vision that haunted him. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z Backstage affairs, strained marriages, guilt over neglected children and other personal dramas sketchily ensue, much of which seems like awfully familiar stuff. | New Jersey: Tales of Motherhood, With a Rock Beat 2010-10-08T22:23:00Z Unfortunately, it comes wrapped up with another opportunity: to obsess over sketchily sourced stories of interpersonal sniping within the administration. Woodward scoop: CIA army operating in Pakistan 2010-09-22T13:37:00Z Goober on the running-board, plastered with mud, looked like nothing so much as a model sketchily done in clay as he peered down inquiringly. The Trail of Conflict Overhead were welcome vistas of open sky, sketchily crossed by woven bridges leading from the vine-world to the cliffs themselves. The Thing in the Attic I have shown, sketchily perhaps, how the primary function of the museum is carried out. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police We breakfasted at leisure, the one sketchily, the other with emphasis, according to our appetites, and had just lit tobacco when the swing-doors of the café clashed and the anarchist rushed in. The Recipe for Diamonds It was a broken bit of ivory, and on it the upper part of a face, sketchily done, with pansy-dark eyes and blush rose skin—without a frame. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 Neil had slept late, breakfasted sketchily, and dined elaborately alone with his mother. The Wishing Moon Several hundred tall, screaming black men clad sketchily in brilliantly colored feathers and paint. Before Egypt So, all those who are educated, even most sketchily, speak French. With the French in France and Salonika Artists in my circumstances eat sketchily at best. Outside Inn It is entitled L’Adultère Innocent; but the comic underplot is very sketchily analyzed, scene by scene, and the whole is very mediocre withal. The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V These, so sketchily set down, are a few of the probable items—credit and debit—in the industrial situation which will await the soldier-workman emerging from the war. Another Sheaf The six had agreed on a certain sketchily defined method of procedure. Turn About Eleanor Only a few features of the future can be discerned and those sketchily. The Settlement of Wage Disputes But even sketchily it would be tremendously interesting. The Pagan Madonna While Mr. Merkel went in the house, where he talked to his wife and daughter, speaking only sketchily of the result of his trip and Billee's remarks, the boys began to question the veteran puncher. The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery Carl's bedroom was white and simple, though spotty with aviation medals and silver cups and monoplanes sketchily rendered in gold, and signed photographs of aviators. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life On one bare-backed horse of every four sat a trooper, clad sketchily in shirt and breeches tugged on hastily, as a sergeant had called the roll. The Tale of a Trooper Unhappily, the atelier of Jean de Rome or Jan von Room is too sketchily portrayed in the book of the past; its records are faint and elusive. The Tapestry Book “Besides, the moment one of these trips is over it ends; I can recount it only sketchily.” The Pagan Madonna "I have several things in view," he said sketchily, "from which a man in my position ought to be able to choose." The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Oh, I suppose I've flirted, like most girls, and been kissed sketchily at silly dances. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life So that very sketchily gives you some idea of the physiographic regions in this state. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 In one of those intervals of waking the plan that had been sketchily forming in his mind from the time he had quit the clearing in the woods took on a definite, fixed shape. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights He jumped down lightly from the porch, as yet but sketchily outlined in joists and rafters, and stood in a litter of shavings, bits of board and piles of yellow earth, with a kindling eye. The Squirrel-Cage To read sketchily and diversely is not only a most painful waste of time, but it abuses our brains. The Book-Hunter at Home But in our summing up, which was very sketchily done, we omitted to make clear that Realness is an aspect of the positive state. The Book of the Damned Jackson is mentioned often but sketchily as the distant ancestor of “picture printing.” John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut I knew what that would signify—it would signify, sketchily speaking, disaster. Embarrassments "It sounds a sporting proposition," I agreed, "though sketchily presented." Foe-Farrell The sketchily clad brown men inside had only been waiting for a signal. The Golden Silence Two thirds of it I thought excellent, the latter part seemed more hastily and sketchily written. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Unlike the previous leads, this spoke with authority, named names, gave dates, and outlined sketchily but adequately the operations of the young man in very plausible prose. The Fourth R "My dear child," he replied, "you describe them too sketchily!" Embarrassments It shows the disposition of statuary so sketchily that we can only recognise a few of the figures. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres Johnnie outlined sketchily and with a good deal of hesitation what he had in mind. The Big-Town Round-Up He had done his lessons sketchily from day to day, but he really knew nothing about them, and he knew that he didn't. The Plastic Age In return for all that he told her she sketchily spoke of her own plans, very vague plans, to be sure, she admitted with one of her quick, gay smiles. The Bells of San Juan The Blackport Beacon had two London correspondents—one a supposed haunter of political circles, the other a votary of questions sketchily classified as literary. Embarrassments He names his characters, tries to give them some vague personality, furnishes them with some roughly and sketchily painted scenery, and gives us not merely told tales, but occasionally something distantly resembling conversation. The English Novel At midnight I accompanied a happy governor to his palace, which had one spare bedroom, sketchily furnished. White Shadows in the South Seas It covers a large portion of the Earth's land surface, includes parts of Asia, Africa and Europe and extends sketchily to the Americas. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History They were very sketchily built and would have dropped to pieces at a touch. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta As he emerged through the folding doors he saw a letter lying among the sketchily laid breakfast things, and Ethel's attitude suggested the recoil of a quick movement; the letter suddenly dropped. Love and Mr. Lewisham The saddle and handle-bar were then sketchily adjusted by Grubb, a deposit exacted, except in the case of familiar boys, the machine lubricated, and the adventurer started upon his career. The War in the Air Penrod dusted himself sketchily, experiencing a sense of satisfaction, dulled by the overhanging afternoon, perhaps, but perceptible: he had the feeling of one who has been true to a cause. Penrod Others were retained inside, though kept sketchily away from view. The Beautiful and Damned The Set are all extremely interested in him; and on hearing my version of his history, sketchily told, have taken to calling him "the prince." It Happened in Egypt They made a round of the house, which was sketchily furnished. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Late in the afternoon the engine jumped the rails; we were advised to wander off to a rest-camp, the direction of which was sketchily indicated. The Glory of the Trenches It was unspoiled by pictures: two or three political maps of Europe, sketchily drawn with coloured crayons, were pinned up here and there. Kathleen The execution does not betoken either care or skill, but is sketchily dashed off. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature It was as sketchily drawn as the one he had made of Hetty, and quite as wonderful in the matter of faithfulness, but utterly without the subtle something that made the other notable. The Hollow of Her Hand So I dried myself—sketchily—with a toothbrush and the edge of the window-shade; then I dressed, and in a still somewhat moist state I went down to interview the management about it. Europe Revised Six minutes later Clovis approached the supper-table, in the blessed expectancy of one who has dined sketchily and long ago. The Chronicles of Clovis Remembering, sketchily, the main outlines of his recent scene with Porfiry, he could not help shuddering again with horror. Crime and Punishment As opposed to many games that we can only sketchily retrace to someplace back in history, we know how all this came about in American football. The Civilization of Illiteracy The Master, sketchily attired, came running down the lawn, flashlight in hand. Further Adventures of Lad He was, as he observed, rather sketchily clad, but the night was warm. The Confession He has told me his life story very sketchily, as if he desired to forget a hated past. 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