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Her best portraits combine areas of worked-up detail — especially hands and faces — with areas intentionally left blank or given only cursory treatment.
ALICE NEEL WAS THE GREATEST AMERICAN PORTRAITIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY. HER WORK CONTINUES TO ASTONISH.SEBASTIAN SMEEMARCH 25, 2021WASHINGTON POST
A cursory Google search led us to Buckethead’s Catfish & BBQ in Stonefort, another small community roughly 20 minutes south.
A DAY’S DRIVE FROM CHICAGO, EXPLORING A VERY DIFFERENT ILLINOISCARSON VAUGHANFEBRUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POST
We had not time enough to walk over the gardens; but, from a cursory view of them, did not much regret our loss.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEY
The natural history of these provinces would be an inexhaustible subject: the cursory traveller can only describe generally.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEY
Lyons appeared to me, from the cursory information which I could obtain, to be as cheap as any town in France.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEY
The most cursory study of history would reveal the falseness of this contention.
SECRET SOCIETIES AND SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTSNESTA H. WEBSTER
In order to introduce this story, it will be requisite to take a cursory view of some previous occurrences.
FEMALE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHIES, VOL. IFRANCIS AUGUSTUS COX
Thus, although in a very cursory and imperfect manner, I have endeavored to convey to you my conception of the Poetic Principle.
THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POEEDGAR ALLAN POE
Of the work as a whole I am quite incompetent to judge on a single cursory reading.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. II (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOT
On the port side of her house he found two more dead men, and a cursory inspection of the bodies told him they had died of scurvy.
CAPTAIN SCRAGGSPETER B. KYNE
SYNONYM OF THE DAYMAY 5, 2021
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