Example sentences for: sketches

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  • Hockney argues that the assured lines in Ingres' sketches are optical evidence that his work was "lens-assisted."

  • Sketches , which some have taken as the high point of Evans and Davis' collaboration, was also another chapter in a mass-market gambit.

  • When Johnson turns to the 19 th century, he continues to reward us with lively prose and well-crafted sketches of people--mostly presidents and big business leaders such as the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and the banker J. Pierpont Morgan (this is decidedly a top-down history, in which the poor, labor union leaders, and minority groups receive far less attention than in most scholarly histories these days).

  • Harben was apparently a protégé of Joel Chandler Harris, who wrote the Uncle Remus stories; Northern Georgia Sketches is dedicated to Harris, "in grateful acknowledgement of the kindly encouragement which made this book possible."

  • Newsweek 's war preview includes a map listing U.S. weaponry and its concentrations, thumbnail sketches of American military commanders, a short essay from Madeleine Albright explaining the need for a military strike, and a story on Saddam Hussein's intricate security measures (he maintains surgically altered body doubles).


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