Sentence examples for minimal as a from inspiring English sources

They are minimal as a steel rod, or dense with twigs, nails, tarred marlin, copper mesh.

And the downward pressure that diamonds have experienced is minimal as a consequence.

One former UN employee in Damascus said field visits were nearly impossible and oversight of the projects funded by the UN was minimal as a result.

The makeup compact, encasing colors like Dune, Cashew and Bamboo, was sexy matte aluminum, as minimal as a Helmut Lang suit.

Appetizers can be as minimal as a salad of seasonal lettuces and herbs in a citrus-Dijon vinaigrette, or as multipronged as salmon done three ways: dill-marinated gravlax, tartare and smoked, with corn blini.

This was partly due to the fact that Wednesday's budget was about as minimal as a Malevich painting – with a handful of major tax changes, and the removal of all the economic stimulus measures.

In contrast, the effect of leupeptin, which inhibits both serine and cysteine proteases was minimal, as was GM6001, a broad range MMP inhibitor.

Reporting requirements for new accounts are minimal, as are the penalties for a failure to comply with those rules.

The species, Ostreococcus tauri, is about as minimal as an organism can get, with a nucleus, one chloroplast and one mitochondria.

"Minimal as an art deco curve," wrote John Lahr of The New Yorker, "Private Lives matched its content: a plotless play for purposeless people".

When the art we admire from our own time can be as democratic as a soiled mattress on a floor, as minimal as an empty room or as accessible as a giant angel beside a motorway, then we might feel that there is something suspect and elitist about placing Old Master paintings from prestigious royal and ducal collections into the category 'supreme'supreme