The phrase "a kind of lean" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific type or style of being lean, often in the context of physical appearance, diet, or design.
Example: "After months of training, he developed a kind of lean that was both athletic and aesthetically pleasing."
Alternatives: "a type of lean" or "a sort of lean".
Mr. Boriskin accurately describes the score as stark, "more akin to film music of the 1940's, which has a kind of lean grandeur".
Both performances boast a kind of lean modern classicism; there's no strained updating of either character, but each has been conceived and concentrated for the intimacy of the camera, not the echo of the stage.
On the contrary, mental language for Ockham is a kind of lean, stripped down, "canonical" language with no frills or inessentials, a little like the "ideal languages" postulated by logical atomists in the first part of the twentieth century.
Then a man propped up a large sheet of corrugated iron as a kind of lean-to, and took her in his arms and carried her to it.
A wardrobe's doors actually function more like a garage door that can be propped up as a kind of lean-to.
Directly across from the Div courtyard, I saw a small group of men and women sitting next to a kind of lean-to.
It's unlikely that you would ever want to braise any kind of lean steaks or loin.
In an interview, Mr. Haider said that the program could be financed and that the checks would be paid: "You see, on the one hand I am a kind of Margaret Thatcher pushing lean government and the end of party influence.
It is a return to his roots, a return to the kind of lean insurgent's campaign that he ran in 2000, say the aides who are left, sounding more than a little like the Coca-Cola executives who heralded the return of Coca-Cola Classic after the New Coke debacle.
In fact, it's possible to view my afternoon as a kind of prizefight between two lean and tough welterweights, so that judges might call one round for Ssam, the next for Wong.
But they beg a kind of use, to be leaned on or stood within and peered through, and have about them a sense of emptiness and absence and possibility.
