"Sketchily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Fisher culminated this six years of frantic search. 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. Then the letter went on in the manner of a man with his foot in a cleft stick; the writer did not approve of James Holden's operations since they involved ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... us at the worst, in default of making it extraordinarily "paying." He had a theory that it would somehow or other always be paying enough—and this much less by any poor conception of our wants (for he delighted in our wants and so sympathetically and sketchily and summarily wanted for us) than by a happy and friendly, though slightly nebulous, conception of our resources. Delighting ever in the truth while generously contemptuous of the facts, so far as we might make the difference—the facts ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James
... pre-war architecture thus sketchily presented is sure to be sharply challenged in certain quarters, but unfortunately for us all this is no mere matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact. The buildings are there, open to observation; rooted to the ...
— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon
... well as successive superseded guardians, in a high extravagance of speculation and dissipation that had left this exquisite being her black dress, her white face and her vivid hair as the mere last broken link: such a picture quite threw into the shade the brief biography, however sketchily amplified, of a mere middle-class nobody in Bayswater. And though that indeed might be but a Bayswater way of putting it, in addition to which Milly was in the stage of interest in Bayswater ways, this critic so far prevailed that, like Mrs. Stringham herself, she ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 • Henry James
... the immediate changes of position and expression which are its most essential features, seems like courting defeat, and to a certain extent defeat does invariably follow the attempt to treat very violent rapid action except loosely and sketchily. Violent action carried to high degree of finish is hardly ever successful in painting or sculpture; a crowd done in Michael Angelo's Medici chapel manner must inevitably fail, and if a crowd is to be treated in sculpture at all, Tabachetti's broad, large-brushed, and somewhat ...
— Ex Voto • Samuel Butler
... the wife, or sister, or sweetheart, or whatever she was, sketchily on one ear and shoved ...
— With the French in France and Salonika • Richard Harding Davis
... back of the envelope was a remarkably good likeness of Hetty Castleton, done broadly, sketchily with a crayon point, evidently drawn with haste while the impression was fresh, but long after she had passed out of ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... shown, sketchily perhaps, how the primary function of the museum is carried out. But it has another and allied interest of great importance to all interested in ...
— Scotland Yard - The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police • George Dilnot
... our summing up, which was very sketchily done, we omitted to make clear that Realness is an aspect of the ...
— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort |
