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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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Focusing on the human evolution and the wars that cause so much suffering, Marchant paints in broad strokes and hopes to give readers much to ponder. The Looking House by Internet Bookwatch His broad strokes of pallet knife successfully transmit his inner feelings and establish a dialogue between the artist, his art and personal experience of the viewer. Group show of various artists continues at Saidpur Village by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan) This is the sort of book Denis Johnson does best, where each character's motivations are laid out in plain sight and they act in broad strokes until everyone hits a wall and incontrovertible truth is revealed: if you shoot a scary guy in the kneecap on the side of a highway, it's probably going to come back to you. Denis Johnson Nobody Move (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Hockley-Smith, Sam / The Fader			bring together bring under bring under control bring up bring up for bring up on bring up sharply bring up short bring up the rear bring up to bring up to date bring up with a start bring up-to-date bring with bring within a range bring within range brink bristle bristle at bristle with rage britches broach with broad broad as a barn door broad in the beam broad strokes broaden broaden horizons broaden out broke broken broken dreams broken reed brood about broom brother brought brow browbeat into brown brown as a berry brown off brown out brown-bagging brown-nose browned browse browse among browse on browse over bruit about			Broad River Water Authority Broad River Watershed Association Broad Run High School Broad Scale Ecosystem Assessment Broad seal Broad Service Category Broad Socialists Broad spectrum Broad spectrum Broad spectrum antibiotic Broad spectrum antibiotic Broad Spectrum Information Processing broad statement broad stone broad stone Broad Street Boogie Band Broad Street Community Newspapers Broad Street Journal Online Broad Street Licensing Group Broad Street Line Broad Street Ministry Center Broad Street Presbyterian Church Broad Street Pump Broad Street Run Broad Street Studio Broad Street Subway Broad Street United Methodist Church broad strokes Broad Sweeping Generalisation Broad sword Broad sword Broad System of Ordering Broad tape Broad Tapes Broad tapeworm Broad tapeworm Broad tapeworm Broad tapeworm Broad Temperature Range Broad Thumb-Hallux syndrome broad tool broad tooled broad tuning Broad Wall Broad Wall Broad Wall Broad whitefish Broad, Charles Dunbar Broad-axe Broad-Band Extremely Low-Frequency Broad-Band Horn Antenna Broad-Band Power Amplifier Broad-Band Sleeve Monopole Broad-Base broad-based broad-based Broad-Based Economic Empowerment Broad-Based Index

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