She finds beauty and hope in spareness and poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Author Snapshot: C.E. Morgan] Reference
Last night's vigil Mass was beautiful in its spareness. From Wordnik.com. [Music marathon continues] Reference
Amazing in its spareness, the language is right on target. From Wordnik.com. [A QUARTER FOR YOUR THOUGHTS • by Madeline Mora-Summonte] Reference
Given the spareness of the economic calendar ahead of the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Fed Minutes Push Up Treasurys] Reference
But I do admire and adopt a bit of that spareness in my writing style. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Claim your space: Make it reflect your tolerance for clutter or spareness. From Wordnik.com. [Living Alone and Loving It] Reference
And where some perfumers sought opulence, others pursued spareness and simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [Scents And Sensibility] Reference
A well-tailored uniform showed the spareness of his tight, hard body to good effect. From Wordnik.com. [Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners] Reference
Maybe they were on to something, those YA writers who made spareness of line look like poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Maybe they were on to something,] Reference
He is not a great singer, but his voice works well with the spareness of the lyric and melody. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
I learned that great rock was not about volume and wildness, but about precision and spareness. From Wordnik.com. [Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso in London] Reference
The spareness of his work, making the prosaic seem almost exquisite, enjoyed a decade-long vogue. From Wordnik.com. [Before and After Stories] Reference
When visiting co-workers homes, I was struck by the relative spareness of the decor and furnishing. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark and Sweden: What I'm Expecting, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
“O Silent Man, do thy six brothers favour thee in wisdom and knowledge and spareness of speech?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
It has a clean, almost apothecary spareness, with lots of sharp angles and galvanized steel and slate. From Wordnik.com. [Old-Fashioned] Reference
From the little I've heard, it appears that his writing is very similar to Hemingway's in its spareness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
I tend towards spareness in my writing – it comes from an inbred habit of keeping my thoughts to myself. From Wordnik.com. [Sparity « I Had the Write Idea] Reference
But the best of the work displays a becoming spareness of line and a loopy but engaging sense of composition. From Wordnik.com. [A Primitive's Portfolio] Reference
Back to brown and silver, back to dust, back to that wonderful purity and spareness North Queensland so lacked. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
During this period, his cover was that of an artist, and he was much admired for the disciplined spareness of his work. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
The Police - still a threes band - has a power and a spareness of sound which thousands of record buyers cannot resist. From Wordnik.com. [Zenyatta Mondatta] Reference
The spareness of the colder and rolling hills, which steepened within kays to the northwest of Kyphrien, appealed to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic of Recluce]
In this heavily bound volume, made in 1983, Lawrence's prints add heat, but not hysteria, to the text's searing spareness. From Wordnik.com. [Making Book The Hard Way] Reference
I think that was an interesting thing to see and confirms in my mind that its spareness and its linguistic purity makes it universal. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Between Words: Further Thoughts on Garage] Reference
But Barbara Vine has a classy spareness to her writing, and an unerring instinct for the place where festering emotions turn pathological. From Wordnik.com. [Catching Up « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Mr. Moore was tall and of that refined spareness of shape which suggests the scholar. From Wordnik.com. [The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair] Reference
He was a man with an actual talent for bareness and spareness in his sleeping quarters. From Wordnik.com. [The Window-Gazer] Reference
The menu at Gruppo di Amici is rather daring in its spareness: no scads of pasta dishes here. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Despite the spareness of his frame, he climbed the ascent with a rapidity that made him gasp. From Wordnik.com. [The Tidal Wave and Other Stories] Reference
He dressed always in black, and the closely-buttoned jacket revealed the spareness of his body. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
The spareness of our forces was thus betrayed by this meeting, which was in effect a council of despair. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Island] Reference
The well-rounded form took away all hint of spareness, while it did not destroy the promise of endurance. From Wordnik.com. [Winning the Wilderness] Reference
The type is uniform -- medium stature, spareness, dark eyes and hair, and olive complexion predominating. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
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