schematic
Example Sentences
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The blue comforter beneath him was covered with Star Wars ship schematics.
From Literature
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If films about catastrophe often take a schematic, meet-the-victims approach to their opening scenes, Ms. Littman renders hers with persuasive vibrancy, too full of life to have room for heavy-handed portent.
“What we need is the schematics map for the installation of these things. Then we’d know exactly where to look.”
From Literature
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Many of Lam’s forays into modernism, into the 1940s—dependent, almost to the point of parody, on Picasso—are schematic misunderstandings of Cubism’s spatial complexities.
There were no potted histories, no schematic definition of concepts, no leading questions to wake up sleepy students.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.