Adjective : a broad-brush approach to reform.    From Dictionary.com. 

Yet all we see is these broad-brush paintings from EVERYONE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conyers' office reacts to reports of wife's guilty plea] Reference

In broad-brush terms Kagan is correct, though hardly original.    From Wordnik.com.  [America and the World] Reference

It's a broad-brush analysis but one I am inclined to agree with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Winder: I Hate Harry Potter and I'm Glad It's Over] Reference

Shorter Bored Lawyer: How dare you call us broad-brush painting!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on “What if the Palestinians Don’t Want a State?”] Reference

Bin Laden and his ilk welcome this kind of broad-brush animosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Smucker: Newt and Nazis: Aiding and Abetting bin Laden] Reference

FOTI: This is not a broad-brush investigation; this is specific fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2006] Reference

So you can't just broad-brush the global temperature changes in this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Convenient Untruth] Reference

But all this broad-brush stuff, you know, people see that for what it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Of The President By Jim Lehrer] Reference

I agree with the broad-brush theory of many of Rowling's characterizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry's House (and Harry's take-home pay)] Reference

But this broad-brush categorization of the left in Latin America is misleading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latin America's Two Left Wings] Reference

Did Greenspan have to raise rates and jeopardize growth in such a broad-brush way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Madrick: Alan Greenspan: A Bad Offense is a Bad Defense] Reference

"There's broad-brush selling," said Edmund Shing, strategist at BNP Paribas in Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind Asia's Pullback] Reference

So looking at leverage as a broad-brush measure is really, really a deceiving measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Wall Street Over?] Reference

I find it amusing just again sort of the broad-brush strokes about say our liquor laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2002] Reference

His shaved head, his broad-brush eyebrows, his blackest-brown eyes -- all turn sharply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Post Profiles Neel Kashkari As Recession-Era Victim [UPDATED]] Reference

And he certainly left the impression that his answer was also broad-brush: No one told me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference

Little that is either good or new or revelatory ever comes of such broad-brush adventures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dangers of Brilliance] Reference

Q The question he asked was not about a specific allegation, but it was a broad-brush question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference

Yet this rich American tradition is being put at risk by stereotyping and broad-brush hostility.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Articles Of Faith: Media's portrayal of religion skews to the right] Reference

Indeed, the October Surprise theory rests on two broad-brush assumptions that are highly suspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Of A Myth] Reference

Yet this rich American tradition is being put at risk by stereotyping and broad-brush hostility. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Articles Of Faith: Media's portrayal of religion skews to the right] Reference

It's -- you know, it's not CNN, it is not, you know, NBC, it's not this massive, broad-brush thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 20, 2000] Reference

“A broad-brush approach worked best, and very few companies actually appreciated during the year.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broadcasting & Entertainment] Reference

Todd does water all this down for a leftist audience, warning against "broad-brush top-down spending cuts".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

But on broad-brush measures that don't risk-weight assets, the bank's balance sheet is still highly leveraged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Job Losses Won't Cut It for Citigroup] Reference

The TV movie "Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story" is conducting a master class in the art of broad-brush tarnishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Television: Messing With Rudy] Reference

Targeting specific causes of harm would be more useful than broad-brush efforts to slow the economy as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Ecological and Georgist Economic Principles~ A Comparison] Reference

Religious delusion is out there, but recognizing it requires us to give up the simple-minded broad-brush approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt J. Rossano: Why Religion Is Not Delusion] Reference

The picture he painted of Basra was necessarily broad-brush — too much detail and his thesis would have fallen apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference

The negotiations have been stalled for so long that a broad-brush declaration will do nothing to change the status quo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Peace Conference?] Reference

Her broad-brush approach to politics suggests that she might only ever be interested in the Presidency or nothing at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cedric Perrier: Sarah Palin: What the British Might Think...] Reference

Only broad-brush cuts to massive categories of state spending, like "Education Aid" and "Transportation," are allowed here.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Gov. Paterson's Budget Calculator: a Case Study in Pretend Participation] Reference

Understand please, under no circumstances will I engage loose broad-brush catcall assaults upon Senator McCain's character.    From Wordnik.com.  [So just what the hell are you so damned afraid of?] Reference

I expect that this broad-brush anti-foreign media propaganda will make it quite difficult for me to work here in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adriana Dunn: From Iran: Interview with Filmmaker James Longley] Reference

Yet Paine is often absent from broad-brush overviews of the American Revolution, or simply relegated to the title of "pamphleteer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Edwards Spells Out For Wolf What's Wrong With Ann Coulter] Reference

"Yet Paine is often absent from broad-brush overviews of the American Revolution, or simply relegated to the title of" pamphleteer. "".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Edwards Spells Out For Wolf What's Wrong With Ann Coulter] Reference