Firstly, ward nurses were often busy attending to patients during patient collection, therefore communication between porters and nurses was typically reduced to the bare essentials.
When office workers dunk a lonely tea bag in a paper cup or a ceramic mug of hot water, they are participating in a tradition that modern life has reduced to the barest essentials.
Mr Winchester's wife is Japanese and he has spent a lot of time in Asia, where, as he says, "everything and everyone can be reduced to the barest essentials, the five so-called classical elements".
In Terrence McNally's script, the entire narrative is seen through the eyes of Molina (John Rubinstein), a homosexual window dresser incarcerated in a Latin American prison, while the perspective of his cellmate, a political prisoner named Valentin Kevin Grayy), is reduced to the barest essentials.
It has been reduced to the bare minimum of materials.
"Many places had reduced to the bare minimum," Esch says of the recession aftermath.
It has been re fined of every compositional subtlety, reduced to the barest structural shapes.
What is intended as radicalism – reducing music to the bare essentials – is sometimes construed by unsympathetic ears as being merely simplistic, or even simple-minded.
But the weekly screenings will still take place in a plain room with around 70 folding chairs, and there remains a makeshift aspect to the philosophy of reducing cinema to the bare essentials of a set time and space, projection equipment and an audience.
Series developers Gough and Millar pitched their "no tights, no flights" rule to the president of Warner Bros. Television, reducing Superman to the bare essentials and examining what led Clark Kent to become the Man of Steel.
We can reduce our mobility to the bare essentials and without harming the economy in any way.
