Perhaps it is merely the depravity of Ms. Myerson's behavior that catches one's deeper attention, but from this point on in the book, the lines of Ms. Alexander's narrative seem clearer, the drama of her story comes into sharper focus and her prose grows leaner and more eloquent.
In the famous phrase of the Russian historian Vassily Klyuchevsky, "the state swelled up, the people grew lean".
They live and breathe, grow lean, brown and disputatious in this novel, and yet they are only a fraction of the story.
And some of us, impaled by dismay, had repeated at that moment the words of Dorothy Parker: "Lady, lady, better run!" But since then, taut and tutored, lacquer-bright, Diana had grown lean, refined, like a stripped-down slander machine, and what we expected was the high-gloss flirtatiousness of the media queen: with perhaps a well-managed tear or two.
He anticipates a growing lean to IoT amid the ongoing transition to 5G, and the company expects increased orders from the makers of a variety of electrical components, including semiconductors and sensors.
As the city continues to achieve critical mass, you may see it emerge as a model for how institutional capital is allocated among young, viable startups and a template for how startups grow lean and efficiently.
In this community, if people see you growing lean, they will start pointing hands and saying things, so if you people let the people know that what they were talking of is true, it will bring problems to us [the family].
(VA respondent) In this community, if people see you growing lean, they will start pointing hands and saying things, so if you people let the people know that what they were talking of is true, it will bring problems to us [the family].
The music too has grown leaner and more direct.
As drivers and putters have grown fatter, the golfers themselves have grown leaner.
