Word: sketched
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...lively colors, some swift lines brushed in with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added off to one side a quick sketch of her playing in the buff which deftly caught the uninhibited side of three-year-olds. Even in a portrait, says Cox, "you're trying for something universal...
...With amused interest I read in your May 26 Personality sketch of Walter Lippmann that he was one of the "bright young men called to Washington" during the Wilson Administration. Reflecting on the change of times, it would be almost impossible today to "call" young brain power into governmental service. To be sure, there are those who may "apply" for a job, fill out wordy dossiers on themselves, wait months for Civil Service classification (a process which insures mediocrity), and then undergo the humiliating "402, FBI-security" snoop...
...seedy sketch of a plot in no way detracts from the high pitch of excitement, sounded in the first dark scene and never lowered, even at the end. Rather, its sparsity gives the characters and the director complete freedom to handle now-hackneyed sequences with new concepts of suspense. Dialogue is kept at a minimum, and action at an unswerving peak. Close-ups, usually a dangerous gimmick, successfully convey the desired note here as the actors act natural, a rare phenomenon in modern movies...
...athlete's loose-jointed stride and crisply announced that he would take "as short a time as possible, so that we may proceed to the main program" (27 highly technical papers). He was as good as his word. Into little more than ten minutes, he compressed a sketch of progress in medical research, practice and teaching as it appears to Young Turk Wood...
...calm and cadaverous holy man who has generally-following a popular legend-just removed a thorn from a grateful lion's paw. Scholars have long known better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have 'written a combined character sketch of one of the livehest, most learned and most cantankerous saints ever to be canonized a pummeling controversialist who could sniff out obscure heresies as a veteran fire-buff smells smoke...