Sentences with phrase «broad brush»

Any discussion of cost must be painted in broad brush strokes.

One of the criticisms I frequently get is that I'm not fair, that I paint with too broad a brush.

However, thus far, we've done little more than talk in broad brush strokes.

I just don't think we should paint with such broad brushes.

Obviously I'm using a very broad brush here.

I believe your post is using rather broad brush strokes to paint all institutions, you may have encountered that where you were.

Interesting how so many liberals like to do so much broad brushing on this thread showing their hatred and prejudice of those who do not think like them.

But when it comes to serious fraud — the big ticket crime committed by banks, companies and their employees — there is little serious data, only broad brush estimates.

So get a clue and stop broad brushing beliefs you are afraid of.

That's a pretty big broad brush you have there and I'm not sure you can sum it up that quickly, even though it sounds good for the annuity industry.

I think it is a fair claim that this is one of the first broad brush pictures that the public ought to be looking at.

The book is aimed at both lawyers and investors / company representatives and strikes the right balance between technical detail and broad brush introductions.

But I guess that's the problem with broad brushes.

Of course, I have been painting with too broad a brush, and therefore have produced too bleak a picture.

So my conclusion of the matter, painted with a very, very broad brush: Love.

Today, I will simply introduce in broad brush strokes the two most common methods of making disciples in our churches today.

This training filled in the finer, more nuanced details of doing good collaborative work, whereas I previously had only broad brush strokes.

Herein lies the danger of being painted with the very broad brush of social science.

Monet was an impressionist who used broad brush strokes and color to emphasize emotion not detail.

I'm sure I'm being unfair to people by painting with a very broad brush when I say that the industry doesn't seem to get it, but I also think the model is fundamentally broken.

Stephen Dunbar, an author of the influential Iowa Test of Basic Skills, explains that these tests can help illuminate statewide educational trends but are too broad a brush for the detail at the school and classroom level that NCLB demands.

Danny Boyle paints with too broad a brush by saying cinema is going down the tubes because of its «Pixarification,» or he simply chooses to ignore all of the recent films that serve to prove his point as faulty.

But the bigots and prejudiced have to broad brush because it is the easy thing to do.

Moving from one drawing to the next the viewer will also discover thickets of angled sticks; lightly rendered floating lozenges; surprisingly colored vortexes; compilations of line passing as broad brushed symbols; hermetic compositions repeating within the same drawing; forgotten hieroglyphs becoming form; atmospheres menacing and combative and others lighter than the last wisp of sun - dissipated fog.

List all the many activities your involved in besides making broad brushing accusations on message boards that no one who is going to do anything reads.

This is just full of broad brush generalizations.

We tend to take an all - or - nothing approach when it comes to sexuality, painting with broad brushes across complex people, ignoring nuance and making up a new law, one that — let's be honest — usually puts women at risk of abuse or shame - based rhetoric.

SA illustrates why the PR folks love the word «catastrophe» — when you use it to describe events covering the span from bad weather to extinction, it's a rather broad brush claim

However those who broad brush Catholic priests as all child molesters and then blast all Catholics need to take a look in the mirror and see if they really hate Catholics.

«Last Flag Flying» provides broad brush strokes and nuances and rewards with every line, whether comic or tragic.

I find it interesting that at the beginning of this you say: It is these people who will paint traditional publishers in amazingly broad brushes, as evil, mercenary, unscrupulous, ignorant, conspiratorial, behind the times, etc..

-- oops, there's that broad brush again.

Eleven o'clock news sound bytes such as «fatal shooting» and «robbery at gunpoint» grip the collective mindset and paint those living in poverty with an oppressively broad brush.

Broad brushing hatred is what your about.

if 5 percent are peds... then reduce the priesthood by 5 % and increase the prison population by the same amout... broad brushed comments about priests?

If you apply an even broader brush to the goals / game stats and look at career club goals all comps and take Messi and Ronaldo out of the equation then every player you mention falls within a range of 0.43 — 0.63 goals / game.

These include slightly horrifying broad brush statistics such as the Chelsea Academy's failure to produce an established first teamer over an eight year period in which # 60 million has been disbursed while across the game, two - thirds of those handed a pro contract at 18 are out of football by 21.

Tisch discussed issues pertaining to for - profit schools that do a bad job of preparing students for the next level, but she pointedly named Monroe College's «impressive track record,» and used it as an example for why critics shouldn't with «one broad brush pillory an entire community of providers.»

«Previous missions to Mars have used a relatively broad brush — analyzing average chemistry over roughly the size of a postage stamp — to «follow the water» and seek ancient habitable environments.

Instead, one finds a tendency to paint introduced species with a single broad brush, often accompanied by inflammatory metaphors and doomsday, scare - tactic language, such as «biological pollution» and «invasion meltdown.»

Joseph S. Ross, MD, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, in New Haven, Conn., says that the «broad brush conclusion» of the study is that doctors should first prescribe NSAIDs — such as aspirin or naproxen (Aleve)-- before starting patients on other painkillers.