The string sound is lean yet warm and penetrating.
The silhouette was always super lean, yet easy to wear.
Lean yet succulent Icelandic cod was outstanding, well matched with a savory sauce gribiche.
Still, the meal satisfies: the steak is lean yet assertive, the dipping sauce worth risking a blot on the tie.
No antibiotics or hormones are used, and the meat, called Better Beef, is extremely lean, yet very tender.
Ned Canty's intelligent direction, along with Matthew Pachtman's attractive early-20th-century costumes and Mr. Harris's sensitive lighting, combined for a lean yet imaginative production.
Best of all is the grass-fed Australian lamb, lean yet juicy, paired with wedges of cornstarch-thickened, garlic-infused fried milk that riff on creamy tofu, crisp on the outside and oozy on the inside.
If Ms. Bush's lush recordings are like Georgia O'Keeffe canvases, Mr. Bleckmann's vivid readings are like charcoal sketches: where Ms. Bush's are layered, impressionistic and personal, his are lean, yet strikingly true to the originals' form and feel.
The past, Just suggests, is where our inner life resides, and his success in this lean yet expansive novel comes in showing how, in the months after Florette's death, her American husband, Thomas Railles, revisits his own earlier life.
The Franck Sonata in the second half was better proportioned, and Mr. Sitkovetsky poured his lean yet warm tone into the music's soaring phrases, managing to sustain its impassioned lyricism and preserve its broad arcs of sound.
Returning are the counter-tenor Lawrence Zazzo, an engaging, mellow sounding Caesar, and Varduhi Abrahamyan, who sings Cornelia, the widow of Caesar's rival Pompey, in a lean yet expressive mezzo-soprano but who is called upon to bring in a couple of palm trees on a pushcart for one expressive aria.
