| 单词 | spareness |
| 例句 | The architecture had a spareness and an economy of line that were pragmatic to the point of absurdity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His technique was also one of spareness and simplicity, much like Hemingway’s prose. B.B. King dies: Generations of guitarists used 'B.B. Box' to learn how to play 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This slender play has some of the spareness of poetry, which Sarah and Max periodically speak aloud. Review: ‘Letters From Max’ Is a Sacrament of Grief, and a Comedy 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Mid-Air is a return to the spareness of early Blue Nile, foregrounding a voice sometimes compared to Sinatra at midnight. In praise of … Paul Buchanan 2012-06-24T20:22:27Z Because of that spareness, entrances are especially dramatic. Review: The Dreamy Precision of an Everyday Surrealist 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Hi-tech architects loved the spareness of masts and rigging. Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth – review 2013-06-01T23:05:24Z The result is a kind of flattened Cubism whose architectural clarity and spareness has an in-process look. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z But Mr. DeLillo said that the spareness and near-abstractness of those books came more from the novels themselves than from any conscious decision on his part. 2010-02-03T22:36:00Z In response to the spareness of the medieval architecture at the Cloisters she developed a pared-down palette of steps suggesting ritual, but no specific spiritual tradition. An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Listening to all 10 hours of the album might seem forbidding, so start with one track; the play with density and spareness on each reveals an accessible form of experimental drama. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z In its spareness, its unwillingness to clarify or expand, its ambiguous evocation of the satanic, the book itself seems buried in the ground. A Mystical Healer, Her Ailing Crush and the Desire That Undoes Them Both 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Despite its a cappella spareness and its sacred character, this music is in no way austere. Music Review: Musica Sacra at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle ? Review 2011-10-16T22:47:40Z The result is an idiom of great spareness and simplicity: A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But the striking thing about Michael’s most recent works, from a series dubbed “Residual,” is their spareness. Review | In the galleries: Tehran doesn’t reveal itself readily 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z I learned that great rock was not about volume and wildness, but about precision and spareness. Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso in London 2010-07-15T20:30:00Z Yet the scene’s spareness is deceptive, which is true of the entire movie. ‘Gunda’ Review: A Remarkable Pig’s-Eye View of the World 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The slowness and the spareness, the visible effort, become expressive. Review: Raphael Xavier, Breaking Out of Boxes, Barely 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The spareness of each frame rivals that of the stage set for Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”: only a bench and a paper-bag lunch. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Its nearly round sound hole, substituting for the twin f-holes of the conventional archtop, and its streamlined, ebony pick guard, bridge and tailpiece add to its sumptuous spareness. Art Review: It?s the Craftsman, Not the Singer or the Song 2011-02-10T22:57:32Z As with Limit to Your Love, there is a spareness to Blake's delivery, a peculiar otherworldliness that puts me a little in mind of Nick Drake; something lonely and desperate and beautiful to his tone. Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll 2011-02-17T23:08:00Z And it wasn’t the only time he encouraged dancers to match the plain-spoken spareness of the music. Justin Peck’s New Americana, Set to Copland’s Old 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z She liked the surprise of the science-fiction element, the slow and steady drip of revelation, the spareness of the writing. Lois Smith’s Year of Working Constantly 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The show’s white set is elegant in its spareness, yet appearance trumps practicality: Supertitles projected in soft white lettering on an eggshell surface look lovely, but they are not as legible as they might be. ‘Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape’ at Japan Society 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Critics praised its deliberate, economical spareness; its light, almost pointillist aspect; its sense of wit and play; and its almost palpable emotional clarity. Ursula Mamlok, Avant-Garde Composer, Dies at 93 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z A reaction against overly complex, representative works, the art that emerged in this period was characterized by spareness and abstraction. Why more food, toiletry and beauty companies are switching to minimalist package designs 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z But for “Cirkopolis,” spareness and style are the reasons this show is special. Theater Review: ‘Cirkopolis,’ by Cirque Éloize of Montreal, at Skirball 2013-12-23T19:52:44Z I first heard Satie's music when I was nine years old – it was the Gymnopédie No 1 - and I was struck by its beauty and spareness. Erik and Me: Alistair McGowan on Satie 2013-07-12T17:30:08Z “And his music is lean. His music has a spareness to it — it’s spare and scary and incredibly evocative.” Spend Halloween with John Carpenter: Why the horror movie man wants to play scary music, just for you 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Her four-decade career is distinguished by fairly steady forward motion, during which she gave Abstract Expressionism a lyricism, spareness and light that weren’t quite natural to it. Joan Mitchell: A Painter at Her Peak 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z In some ways, her staging might seem surprisingly straightforward, but her sensibility is strongly evident in its spareness and its use of small or commonplace items to evoke much grander pictures. For Mary Zimmerman, overseeing 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis, it starts with imagination 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z After the spareness and elegance of the Haydn, everything else, including the encores, showed off his ability to play torrents of notes very fast. Yefim Bronfman: Flying fingers and heartfelt Prokofiev | Classical review 2012-12-11T19:02:01Z The audience allowed the piece’s concluding return toward spareness to ring out fully before charging in with enthusiastic applause. Review: A Pulitzer Sequel for Orchestra, Packed With Drama in Microcosm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The spareness was mesmerizing because it was so counterintuitive. Perspective | JFK Jr. and Carolyn showed us the right way to be famous for being famous 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Performed live by three musicians, it is unrelenting in its spareness. Review: A Startling ‘Swan Lake’ That’s Hard to Recognize 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Clinical, though, and sprawling in its accumulation of stories, “Awakenings” seems an unlikely candidate for opera, an art form dependent on poetic spareness. An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z But Beaton’s portraits also evince a startling purity—a sensual directness and a spareness of composition that seem to free his subjects from their respective eras rather than pin them down. Cecil Beaton Through the Decades 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z In other spots, the spareness felt merely thin, and alternation between the sedate and the rapid gradually lost its power to shock. Zendora Dance Takes a Firefly’s View at BAM 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Jamie Lloyd’s “Betrayal,” which has a staging to match the spareness of Pinter’s language and a roiling well of squelched emotion to feed its comedy, is Mr. Hiddleston’s Broadway debut. Tom Hiddleston on ‘Betrayal’ and the Art of Self-Protection 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Neugebauer’s staging doesn’t pick up on it, though; the set, by the design collective called dots, references a painterly spareness but leaves out the beauty part. Review: Edie Falco Shines as an Everywoman in ‘Morning Sun’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Although their Arlington home is stuffed to the brim with the things a family of four accumulates, here in the country they appreciated the spareness of the space and didn’t want to overfurnish it. A quirky custom home goes from ’50s time capsule to modern family getaway 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The spareness of his verse steers the reader toward this kind of simplified perception, but it’s in the nature of language to form a network of allusions and associations that crowd out immediate impressions. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z At the same time, it represents a return of sorts — to the spareness of his early writing as well as to his fascination with artists as characters. A new novel by Nobelist J.M. Coetzee, 83, is a masterclass in the 'late style' at its best 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The spareness of the physicality and the statue-like placement of the actors put you in mind, at times, of a production consumed with stylish minimalism. Review | Jessica Chastain captivates in a strikingly minimalist ‘Doll’s House’ 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The spareness of the libretto takes some getting use to. Commentary: Redemption, writ large, in L.A. Opera's divine 'Omar' 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z His new production, a re-envisioning of his former work, has a lovely spareness. Review: Odyssey Theatre's 'The Serpent' resurrects a 1960s theatrical landmark 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z But their spareness was also a reflection of police protocol, implying that it is clear and immutable. Perspective | In trial testimony, Chauvin is cast beyond the blue wall 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z That spareness and sense of freedom is audible in her work, which she writes, records and produces herself. One to watch: Jetta 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z They are elaborated upon with vivid spareness in the opening scenes of “Ray & Liz,” a haunting, fragmentary cinematic memoir that marks Billingham’s feature writing and directing debut. Review: 'Ray & Liz' is a bleak, beautiful memoir of an unhappy English childhood 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z “If one story is enough, three stories are redundant. It doesn’t matter how well those stories are told,” he writes with an unusual spareness. Chuck Klosterman shifts his pop culture-obsessions to fiction in 'Raised in Captivity' 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z The Guardian wrote the film was "more moving for its spareness, leaving the talking to Dando's friends and family." Dando doc 'powerful' but 'lack of answers' 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z It must have been a relief to jettison the dead weight and get back to basics, to treat the elegant spareness of Carpenter’s movie as both a fresh jumping-off point and a guiding principle. Review: A nasty, nimble ‘Halloween’ sequel finds this horror franchise in pretty good shape - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z But there is more to admire here than a simple economy of form and content, and the spareness of Ramsay's approach is no mere approximation of Ames' hard-boiled prose. Joaquin Phoenix descends into a hellish New York underworld in the haunting 'You Were Never Really Here' 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z It was paradoxical, bringing together spareness and metropolitan bustle. ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z The occasional spareness of their playing and the stillness that sometimes surrounds their remarks suggest a region distinct from ordinary existence. Cognitive Science in the Jazz Club 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Van Hove does not always rely on spareness to make a familiar play seem new. Theatre Laid Bare 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The menu reflects that same sort of Northeastern spareness, especially the short blackboard menu, where diners will find the restaurant’s latest catch, which changes frequently. A Review of Ocean House in Croton-on-Hudson 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Of the Stone’s spareness, he said: “It’s all about the music, and that’s all that happens. There are no distractions.” | East Village: In the Church of Difficult Music 2014-02-14T20:35:18Z It manages to be both functionalist and elegant, notable for its spareness, the openness of its structure and its no-waste aesthetic. These Knock-Down, Shrinkable Games 2012-07-24T21:16:34Z She also noticed the spareness of his frame, the curious transparency of his darkened skin, and the brightness of his eyes, all significant of an intensity of bodily effort. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Though only of average height, she generally gave the impression of being tall by the erect way in which she habitually carried her head, and by the straightness and spareness of her whole figure. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Barbara glanced at him sharply, and noticed the gauntness of his face and the spareness of his frame, which had become accentuated since she had last seen him. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Modern simplicity must show the spareness of asceticism, not the leanness of an�mia. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The spareness, alertness, fussiness, and excessive politeness of the people was as great a contrast to the characteristics of the rubicund Britons he had been among a day ago, as he could have imagined. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z She was thin to spareness, with a face as brown as a tobacco leaf, restless black eyes and wool neatly pinned and set off by an amber comb. The Valiants of Virginia He was a tall man, but gave no impression of strength because of the exceeding spareness of his frame. The Voice of the Pack Indeed, the spareness of their coverings was a matter of some regret and anxiety on Percival's part. Under False Pretences A Novel There was a spareness about Paul—a tall, lean, hungry-looking man, with large soft eyes that hid their anger and a face that was lined with tiredness and resignation. Martyr He was tall, but his spareness suggested fragility, and his face, which emphasized this impression, had a hint of querulous discontent in it. The Greater Power The spareness of our forces was thus betrayed by this meeting, which was in effect a council of despair. Hurricane Island The well-rounded form took away all hint of spareness, while it did not destroy the promise of endurance. Winning the Wilderness He offered himself a whole offering to God, by prayer and study of the Scriptures, by spareness of diet and simplicity of clothing, by liberal almsgiving. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 During this period, his cover was that of an artist, and he was much admired for the disciplined spareness of his work. Concordance A Terran Empire concordance The priest gave it, and the aide held it up, displaying a chill and vacant chamber, furnished with monastic spareness. The Long Roll This I did, and Peel, who was the most conscientious man I ever knew in spareness of eulogium, said to me when I sat down, "That was a wonderful speech, Gladstone." The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 The no longer pampered body, subdued to spareness, braced by toil, elastic from exertion, and patient from habit, is not a clog, but a meet companion for its immortal associate. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Mr. Nicholas Crips was blonde, bony man perhaps five feet nine in height, but looking taller because of the spareness of his limbs. The Missing Link He dressed always in black, and the closely-buttoned jacket revealed the spareness of his body. Mike Fletcher A Novel They all possessed a lean, wiry hardness of muscle and frame, a hawk-like glance of the eye, an almost emaciated spareness of flesh on the cheeks. The Silent Places She associated spareness of person with high thinking, and an abundance of flesh as an indication of material or commonplace aims. Unleavened Bread But the people generally never thought of that, and were mainly influenced in their judgments by the spareness or fleshiness of the animal's hindquarters. The Siege of Kimberley Despite the spareness of his frame, he climbed the ascent with a rapidity that made him gasp. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories Griffeth's figure was slight to spareness, and save in moments of excitement there was something of languor in his movements. The Lord of Dynevor You lack that certain spareness which is quite Distinctive of the persons who make books. Black Beetles in Amber And the spareness of frame, the thinness of arms and legs, the pitiably weak grip on life, speak without words to the seeing eye. The Case for India He was thin and spare, with that peculiar spareness which results from the habit of always eating less than one can. Alone in London It followed that they cultivated that naked plainness and spareness which makes their work supreme. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Perhaps she was not so wonderful in evening dress, but her figure was boyish in its slim spareness—in these serge travelling clothes she hardly looked thirty-five! The Price of Things The type is uniform—medium stature, spareness, dark eyes and hair, and olive complexion predominating. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" They chained me with the rest, and, O company, is it not a proof of my courtesy and spareness of speech that I kept silence and did not choose to speak? The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I For several hours he lay convulsed on the ground, expecting death; but the gaunt spareness of his frame, and his unvarying abstinence, prevailed over the poison, and he recovered slowly, and after great anguish. The Pilgrims of the Rhine There were a number of the friends of his youth—tall, clean-featured, clean-limbed men, with a tendency toward length and spareness—who greeted him almost affectionately. The Sowers There was a laugh at Ketill's words, for his person had never been noted for its spareness. Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell His eyes roved rapidly up and down the other's form, noting the lean thighs and close-drawn belt which lent the appearance of spareness, belied only by the neck and shoulders. The Spoilers Then said he to me, 'O silent man, are thy six brothers like thee distinguished for wisdom and knowledge and spareness of speech?' The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I He was a man with an actual talent for bareness and spareness in his sleeping quarters. The Window-Gazer They chained me among the rest of them; and, O people, is it not a proof of my courtesy and spareness of speech, that I held my peace and did not please to speak? The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 He was rather undersized, as Chinese go, and the Chinese narrow shoulders and spareness of flesh were his. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii Mr. Moore was tall and of that refined spareness of shape which suggests the scholar. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair Then said he to me, "O Silent Man, do thy six brothers favour thee in wisdom and knowledge and spareness of speech?" The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 |
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