broad strokes

collocation in English

meaningsofbroadandstroke

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broad
adjective
uk
/brɔːd/us
/brɑːd/
very ...
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stroke
noun
uk
/strəʊk/us
/stroʊk/
a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, sometimes causing a loss of the ability to move particular parts of ...
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(Definition ofbroadandstrokefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbroad strokes

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Making everyone swing wood, just to accommodate the 9.7% that will play baseball at the next level, is painting with abroadstroke.
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I can deal only with the arguments that strike me as most central, and then only in broad strokes.
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This will be described in greater depth elsewhere, and broad strokes will suffice here.
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This extended metaphor sketches out in broad strokes the nature of the fear of triviality with which the commentator has to wrestle.
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Ferling has avoided the trap of writing in minutiae and has painted a canvas in broad strokes and vividly coloured personalities.
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This moment suggests a lumbering, witless quality to the production, one that substitutes broad strokes for nuance and character development.
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In broad strokes this means that a belief is true if it stands in a right kind of causal connection to the object it represents.
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As a consequence, a frustrating disparity emerges in the book between the broad strokes (all of which are valuable) and the finishing touches of his argument.
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In short, the magnitude of the task requires that the picture of coronals be painted with broad strokes, sometimes glossing over what could be troublesome details.
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Factors can be thought of as "macro-variable," in that they summarize in broad strokes the patterns of cooccurrence of linguistic features across the texts in the corpus.
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In broad strokes, drawing on other's words can be used to invoke a source in support of one's position, or to single out another's statement with which to disagree.
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To put it on the chart with broad strokes, in 1960 coalmining suffered 1,669 stoppages, and the rest of the economy suffered 1,163.
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That is underlined here with broad strokes of the pen.
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He just gave me a few broad strokes and told me to play the character real, that was it.
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They look at things in broad strokes to make assessments of cultural effort (84).
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In fact, the order itself was crossed through with two broad strokes.
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The broad strokes and strong colours he applied to his autumn and winter landscapes brought him wide recognition.
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Oil allows smooth, translucent surfaces and can be applied in a range of thicknesses, from fine lines to thick broad strokes.
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Her primary interest was in creating a passionate, funny, excessive style of acting, using characters and situations drawn with broad strokes and shameless exaggeration.
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While it is difficult to summarize all current views, general statements may be made, remembering that such broad strokes will have exceptions in specific cases.
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