Sentence examples for pared-down style from inspiring English sources

Black's pared-down style is not entirely pared down, and, once you look closely, you find that his narratives are loaded with poetic devices: "the fleshy heat of him pressing against her like the air of a midsummer day thick with the threat of thunder"; "The city seemed bewildered, like a man whose sight has suddenly failed".

This pared-down style earned Brummel, and his fashion-conscious contemporaries, the label of a "dandy".

The pared-down style, clipped and understated, perfectly fits the sepia setting.

Foster risks dullness by telling much of the story in a deliberately pared-down style.

There are three desserts, one of them quite fancy, given the pared-down style.

"He has a very simple, pared-down style: open white shirts and fitted dark suits.

The plans show his emerging pared down style - with fluid lines and artistic asymmetry.

Conducting the work that launched his tenure here, Antonio Pappano makes the sweeping full-orchestra passages sound glowing, the pared-down chamber-style episodes snappy, and he supports his singers throughout.

He learned to sketch furtively, which doubtless contributed to his pared-down yet intimate style.

Such pared-down, "Elements of Style" prose verges, at times, on the precious.

Gizzi's pared-down, bundled-up style, its thrift and self-undermining wit, evokes his neck of the woods.