1.   Although the film looks at the world primarily through the eyes of the initially innocent Sonny, its portraits of his two older brothers are more than mere sketches.

2.   Like its predecessors, this book includes some recipes so simple as to be mere sketches of an idea, and others that are startling in their complexity.

3.   Many drawings are mere sketches, even doodles, but a few strike chords.

4.   To Hampson, this was not the act of a composer who thought of the piano versions of these songs as mere orchestral sketches.