Sentence examples for lean sentences from inspiring English sources

But Krueger did borrow more from the master than his lean sentences and trim white beard.

Her lean sentences speed the story along and offer piercing insights into character.

But at this "Betrayal," I sometimes felt his lean, elliptical sentences were as prismatic as Shakespearean soliloquies.

Yet the stories, the very shaping of the paragraphs, had an ordering effect on them; though the world might be messy, the sentences were lean, cohesive, beautiful.

The Volcker Rule should be a lean and mean single sentence.

I was tossing off all my academic cinematic achievements when, with an impatient wave of his hand, this guy from Brooklyn who used to be under contract at Warner's stopped me mid-sentence, leaned forward (was he mocking my pose?) and said: "You're wasting your money.

In a lean, neat, vaguely ominous first sentence, Mr. Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins detective stories, establishes that this time his idea of mystery will be more unsettling than usual.

Having given Pistorius the benefit of the doubt in reaching her verdict - and taken plenty of flak for it - Judge Masipa may choose to lean the other way in sentencing.

He dropped his voice and slowed the sentence, inviting listeners to lean forward and catch the unexpected ending: "… is exactly the courage and principle we need in Washington DC to turn this country around".

He leaned confidingly toward me, and his next sentences came all in a rush.

My moment of illumination about Howard Dean came one day in Iowa when I saw him lean into a crowd and begin a sentence with, "Us rural people......