Sentence examples for far too lean from inspiring English sources

Sheffield's finest might have been deemed "fat" by a "high ranking" UK Athletics official – as disclosed by her coach, Toni Minichiello – but she was far too lean and mean for the other heavyweights of the heptathlon on the opening day of the Hypo-Meeting here in western Austria.

So Israel, long frustrated by its image as a country tarnished by danger and strife, wants to rebrand itself as hip, cool, cultured, fun and creative.The initiative comes from Israeli diplomats and Jewish groups in America, whose research shows that even though Israel enjoys strong political support from Americans, its image is far too lean and mean.

(Here's my spoiler warning: "On Chesil Beach" is far too lean and pure for me to muse on more than a few of its sentences without giving some secrets away. If you're inspired by the hook above, read the book — it'll be nearly as quick as reading my review, and more fun).

As it turns out, "Mexico City: An Exhibition About the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values," while a show of interest, feels far too lean for the space it's been given and so sharp in the case of at least one work as to raise ethical qualms.

By most accounts, the past several years under Conde Nast rule have seen Reddit run very lean — probably far too lean.

There have been far too many lean years for the Humberside clubs.

Bruce is a fine actress, but she leans far too heavily on the idea of her character as a formidable, long-suffering black woman which is in itself a stereotype.

"My God, thinking about that, what she put up with, just so so — however could she have put up with it?" Kelman leans far too heavily on this effect — anacoluthon, the switching of grammatical structure mid-sentence, is the rhetorical name for it — and it soon grows old.

Far too often, one partner leans in to the demands of the other, especially when a partner overwhelms us.

A tie just isn't beachy and leans far too much on the "business" rather than "casual" side.

On the down side, however, Corke warned Fleming away from being over-dramatic, declaring that "Mr Fleming is evidently far too accomplished to need to lean upon these blood-and-thunder devices: he could keep our hair on end for three hundred pages without spilling more blood than was allowed to Shylock".