Sentence examples for quite spare from inspiring English sources

While we like the earthy style, we also like things to be quite spare.

The rooms are quite spare but what the designer places in each of them is of the finest quality.

Not that Radziner has the kind of budget these clients do: "For me to be able to execute this," he says, "it had to be quite spare".

With Hüsker Dü in the 1980s, his band Sugar in the '90s and as a solo artist, Mr. Mould has made many kinds of music, some of them acoustic and quite spare.

I wanted it to be quite spare and controlled.

Anyone tempted to think that 50 years ago life was nicer only has to watch the scenes in the pub or the hot-bath abortion scene that, quite rightly, spares the audience little.

I've played professionally for 15 years so I'm quite enjoying my spare time.

Hadestown is quite unlike the spare and rather earnest acoustic folk Mitchell had previously released on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe label.

A simmering row over why quite so many spare ballot papers 5m of them—have been printed, on top of the 26m required for those registered to vote, will not go away.

In other respects, HRW found, the coalition tried quite hard to spare civilians.One of the tests that human-rights analysts use to make these judgments is that of proportionality, albeit in a slightly different sense from the one Augustinians use.

They have simply lost their monopoly; they have had to move over and share their once closely guarded powers with the new rich, who are quite willing to spare the older generation so long as they are allowed to copy, and perhaps enhance, their style.