By contrast, Ragnarok carried its inner tensions and fraught relationships with a sparing muscular economy.
That, he said, and a sparing diet, and twice-weekly sessions on the treadmill.
For the most part the actors deliver the language with a sparing dose of emotional investment.
Even in shows that use real or believably pastiche music, it makes sense for the recording studio to be a sparing location.
And those who did speak, often just days after the attack, related what they saw with a sparing rhythm that often sounded like lines of poetry.
But more striking was a sparing use of the sustain pedal that yielded clean, transparent textures as well as phrasing that alternated between vivid and slightly brittle.
The Tongans also carved small female figures in whale ivory; the earliest examples known are tiny, indicating a sparing use of rare material.
The gold was in two colours, a deeper red being obtained by an admixture of copper; and there was a sparing use of neillo.
With wisdom and a sparing use of legislation, he can still govern effectively if he is canny enough, and his opponents behave responsibly.
Craig knows enough (or is British enough) to lay on the pixie dust with a sparing hand, and you can choose to believe whichever version of events, enchanted or mundane, you prefer.
He has also varied and lightened his basic palette of black, brown and maroon with a sparing use of bright colors, often applied to sharply focused symbolic images drawn from newspaper photographs, television, popular graphics and digital sources.
