Steamed beltfish might sound like something served in an orphanage, but be patient with the minimalist descriptions on the menu.
Worst: Minimalist product descriptions.
Watson further notes how Blyton often used minimalist visual descriptions and introduced a few careless phrases such as "gleamed enchantingly" to appeal to her young readers.
Corwin is a minimalist, yet his descriptions are precise: Blood spatter at a crime scene looks like "a miniature pointillist portrait," and the Los Angeles River is "a thin stream of brackish water purling down the graffiti-scarred cement banks".
The Rosetta enzyme design protocol starts with minimalist active site descriptions consisting of transition state models surrounded by disembodied side chain and backbone functional groups positioned optimally for catalysis, so called theozymes [5].
Description: Airy, Minimalist West Hollywood cafe with multiple bean sources — Coava (Portland, Ore ., Sightglass (San Francisco), Victrola (Seattle) — for multiple styles.
I don't think of myself as a minimalist, but I do appreciate descriptions that consist of one or two spare sentences, including these: "Telephone pole wires jailed the harvest moon".
Well, because the stiff, minimalist, as Mr Rayner puts it, "haiku-like" descriptions (grudgingly expanded, he explains, and now with pictures!) struck me as ridiculously pompous.
The minimalist menu, stocked with sustainable fish and seafood from the Atlantic Ocean, keeps things mysterious, with descriptions like "squid, walnut, ink, cauliflower".
