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broad strokes

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broad (brush) strokes
if you describe a situation with broad strokes, you describe it in a very general way without giving any details The novel's historical background is filled in with broad brush strokes. In a few broad strokes he summed up his beliefs.
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Readers who are not specialists in Latin America will find this helpful background, but should keep in mind that this brief overview is necessarily painted in broad strokes without the nuances that Forment brings to his detailed examination of the nineteenth century.
In broad strokes, so as not to betray anyone's privacy, the CPA is being sued, and the California Board of Accountancy has started license revocation proceedings.
The broad strokes and special effects carom rather clumsily off the bits of alienation and twisted family dynamics that the playwright (``True West,'' ``Buried Child'') usually traffics in.
 
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