While the markets are for the moment giving France a cautious free ride, middle-class French are giving Mr. Hollande no credit for sparing them, because they do not feel spared, especially since tax brackets are not being adjusted for inflation.
The scenes feel spare and serene.
While Part 1 feels spare and impressionistic, the latter two sections occasionally drown in floating signifiers.
Despite (or because of) all the noise, the songs feel spare, broken down, until only the stuff that matters is left, as if Tweedy is trying to speak, and play, to the heart of things.
Even with 2,000 clips, the site can feel spare right now.
I feel so spared the ordeals of marriage that I can't see why if people are happy together, they'd put themselves in that kind of straight world.
Feeling himself "spared a fatal twisting from the tractor to leave a last document" for his son, sensing that "a new person stepped from that entangling," Woiwode scours the past to separate its strands once again, this time focusing on the endurance rather than the creation of self and artist.
From Death to Death (and so on through what is surely the longest title in exhibition history) feels spacious, spare and properly paced for slow contemplation, despite containing 150 works.
What they certainly are is inclusive, and I for one – still slightly smarting from the bum's rush I felt 1980s Spare Rib always gave me as a keen (but straight) young feminist – am all for that.
Phelps felt he could spare it.
