The phrase "lean text" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of writing that is concise, straightforward, and easy to read. For example, "We strive to write lean text that gets our message across without using any extra words."
Of course, it might be argued that on the sexual scale of 1911, when the novel appeared, let alone that of the eighteen-eighties, when its catastrophe is supposed to have occurred, the few embraces and kisses that Ethan and Mattie do share in Wharton's lean text constitute the equivalent of contemporary copulation, as breathily demonstrated on the screen.
"We were thinking about Smart TVs, and realized that even if you put a really sophisticated web browser on a Smart TV, a lot of your online social addictions and news addictions are lean-forward, text-heavy experiences that you wouldn't want to consume from your couch.
"Some lean left," the text on the screen reads.
This article called texting "lean media" and said "it doesn't effectively transfer the rich emotional cues" that you get from other, more personal, forms of communication.
Some research has shown that where learning materials require less analysis multimedia presentations are more efficient, but where more probing of content is needed then "lean media" such as text is more effective (Lui et al. [2009]) Text Charting and functional analysis support these deeper aims with conceptual mapping giving visual representations.
Austen, Tolstoy, Hawthorne, and Eliot were all rejected on similar grounds; they were either too on point or the temptation to lean on the outside text would have been too strong.
Mr. Halpern's settings of the text also lean toward dramatic exaggeration, keeping the mood at a consistently heightened emotional pitch of (literal) melodrama that quickly comes to seem wearing, and artificial.
SME's design for the Nets is essentially a triangle with the word "Nets" inside, but the triangle has depth and weight and leans forward, while the text appears to expand.
They get to dig into sacred texts and lean on their own relationships with the church and God.
The next generation of producers, which included William Poel and Harley Granville-Barker, returned to a leaner and more text-based style.
He leans in to study the text on his screen.
