1.   The bare outlines and graphic shorthand of Botticelli s drawings leave more space for the imagination, and speak more directly.

2.   These brief examples are given, in bare outline, to indicate some possible procedures.

3.   These measures included a comprehensive plan to reform the health care system, although only the bare outlines of the scheme were revealed within the speech.

4.   That is the bare outline of the Pilmay and Scott story, a tale that could be told in much more detail.

5.   I gave her the bare outline of your problem, Leonora -- it was necessary to explain why I wanted an X-ray in a hurry.

6.   But his proposal raised serious questions even in its bare outlines as it seemed to call for a softening of American policy on Iraq.

7.   But the suffocating cynicism of the media coverage of the bare outlines of the story will spawn in turn even more apathy in the electorate.

8.   Casey handed the actors just a bare outline of who the characters were and what topics they would explore.

9.   Carole Hedinger, acting executive director of the lottery, issued a brief statement offering a bare outline of the squabble but did not identify any of the participants.