He'd merely sketched the progression, like a naive musician humming a melody to a transcriber; the software he'd used had computed the actual sequence of brain states.

The story, which takes Vinicius to a humdrum vegetable market, a dock reeking of garbage and alleys teeming with winos, is a patchwork, Mr. Goodman said, in which some characters are "merely sketched."

He repeatedly indicated that he was merely sketching the realistic outline of any peace agreement, as suggested by past, American-brokered negotiations over issues like settlements and the right of return.

Brøndal's work on a universal grammar focuses on morphology and merely sketches semantics (Praepositionernes theori, 1940) and syntax (Morfologi og syntax, 1932).

Planir merely sketched a wave of farewell as Kalion stomped out of the room, shoulders stiff with annoyance.

I am merely sketching in informational background-that you and Ruthan, are seeing one another.

I also went the last time Fonteyn was here - she, too, was merely sketching the steps to the Sleeping Beauty Grand PDD.

He merely sketches in the few dance steps he's required to perform in a brief duet with Gary Beach, who plays Georges's lover, Albin.

Thus, there were moments in her solo to " 'Round Midnight" when she could have been merely sketching her steps.

There is a landscape preserved at Madrid in an unfinished condition, with the figures merely sketched in by Murillo and the background left incomplete by Iriarte, and this is said to have been left incomplete at the time of the quarrel.