| And where Lean's similarly epic Dr Zhivago was hampered by a silly, overwrought plot, this has a clean spareness to it. |
| Her face, powerful in its spareness, registers emotion with subtle ticks and readjustments. |
| He was rather undersized, as Chinese go, and the Chinese narrow shoulders and spareness of flesh were his. |
| But this's the copy that's on release, in which what's discernible is not poetic spareness or austere lyricism, but unendurable tedium and muddle. |
| By the way, is it not possible that the spareness and slenderness of your person may be owing to the same cause? |
| Indeed, the spareness of their coverings was a matter of some regret and anxiety on Percival's part. |
