Sentence examples similar to a leaner adaptation from inspiring English sources
The director Lucky McKee, in this lean adaptation of a novel by Jack Ketchum and himself, maintains an artfully calibrated pace, investing a powerful parable with an abundance of closely observed details.
The four Academy Awards and huge box-office returns of the Coen brothers' lean adaptation of his desert-noir thriller No Country for Old Men – originally written in screenplay form by McCarthy in the mid-1980s, then later worked up into a novel – changed all that.
Stuart Weger is a leaner.
Want a leaner federal government?
Preferably a leaner, trimmer self.
He sculpted a leaner frame.
A small group (4.2 %) is employing Lean development [48], an adaptation of lean principles for the world of software development.
Having rested extensively on his "Pulp Fiction" laurels, Mr. Tarantino directs what could well have been a sharp and lean Elmore Leonard adaptation.
Mr Lygo branded the recent TV adaptation of Zadie Smith novel White Teeth "boring but good", adding Channel 4 was going through "a lean patch" that would take a couple of years to put right.
Freundlich had a lean physique.
Notice, Switzerland is a lean spender, the leanest.
