Even so bare an outline of Mantel's life, drawn from her 2003 memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, makes clear the connections between Mantel's biographical backstory and the goings - on at Henry VIII's court. (firstthings.com)
It may help to make this continuity more real to our minds if we attempt to trace, in barest outline, the place which the church has held in the history of the last nineteen centuries. (religion-online.org)
Then he reverses black and white, as in a negative, before settling on bare outlines in color. (haberarts.com)