Sentence examples for down to essential from inspiring English sources

Real diplomacy is now done from Washington, and an embassy can be easily pared down to essential services.

The intention of the series, as Rivette explained, was "to invent a new approach to film acting, where speech, pared down to essential phrases, precise formulas, would play the role of poetic punctuation".

He's both analytical, distilling songs down to essential parts, and whimsical in his fondness for funny noises.

She found that in posed pictures young men would wear full cowboy regalia, to give to a sweetheart or to send back East to the family, but unposed pictures told a story of clothes stripped down to essential work gear.

Asked whether intrinsically Chinese aesthetics or attitudes exist, Ms. Tseng suggests that her choreography stems from a belief that "less is more, that elegance often comes from a paring down to essential lines, that movement encompasses stillness, empty space being as important as what's filled in".

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He can cut through the foliage around an issue and strip it down to essentials.

Even keeping down to essentials can be pricey - a wetsuit is compulsory and costs £200 (or £50 to hire).

Dear Ghosts pulls two ways between these choices, in a manner akin to "holding nothing back" or shaving "down to essentials".

They weren't; his melodies are pared down to essentials, and he measures out every detail in his lyrics.

The story Tarkovsky tells in Andrei Rublev, boiled down to essentials, is not that different from Reed's epic about Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.