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‘A brush can be broad.’

[⟨det brush.n⟩ broad.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

(Yes, I know we could argue over definitions, but I’m painting with a broad brush here.)
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I have to agree that the brush seems awfully broad.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“Remember, lenders are painting new risk – management criteria with a very broad brush, “Gumbinger says.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You attitude serves only to illustrate the problem with painting with broad brush stokes.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

On more than one occasion, the plaintiff’s attorney painted a broad brush (saying), this is the way the press does things, this is how the media does things.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This 1 energy may diminish your ability and desire to handle details with a broad brush.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I find it interesting how the ODM’s love to find examples of Mega – churches’ ‘failing’’ in one way or another, and then using that’ ‘failure’’ to paint the entire movement with a brush so broad as to be unwieldable.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Because Huntington’s brush is broad, his specifics are vulnerable to attack.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We wind up painted with the broad brush of influential Catholics like Shea and have to spend time fighting misperceptions rather than working toward restoring those things we hold dear and encouraging others to respect and enjoy them.
(Parse)

In the British National Corpus:

Here we can only paint answers with a broad brush, but a coherent picture is beginning to emerge.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They want to paint every speculator with a broad brush.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’ve noticed, after reading so much on both sides of the abortion argument, that the side against it is almost always the group more likely to paint everyone with the same broad, bigoted, black and white brush.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

That is why we need to separate and distinguish mobile home displacement from the broad brush of’ ’ affordable housing.”
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They still want to paint everyone with the same broad brush, and that’s one thing that got President Bush into trouble.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Japan, China, Russia, Korea, Poland, Germany, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the 20th century have endured worse broad brush – strokes than almost any part of Africa.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Every time you paint people with a broad brush you screw up the picture, and that’s all the furor over “Toboldgate’ ’ is… people assuming that, since they’re heard stories of other online writers being influenced by gifts from gaming companies, then anyone that accepts anything from a gaming company is automatically biased and not to be trusted.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The previous illustrations have reached a bit, but I’ve painted with a broad brush to show the extremes of our irrational responses to new things.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

(The following is a broad brush and generalized treatment of a topic that deserves a long article or even a book, but I do not have the time or expertise to do either.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Diogenes paints with a broad brush, sometimes too broad, and in primary colors, but there is substantial truth in what he says.
(Parse)

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Queried on 2013-05-21.