Sentence examples for seem spare from inspiring English sources

The designs now seem spare, calm – and not that dated.

It would seem spare tickets for the latter contest are much more of a rarity than those for the former.

The sonata was Shostakovich's last completed work, and he did not live to hear it performed; the music can seem spare and bleak, but it also pulses with a quiet luminosity.

At the moment, only Connecticut's natural gas customers seem spared from steep rate increases, apparently because the state's utilities have stored abundant supplies of gas that were purchased before wholesale prices spiked upward.

More and more, "The Boondocks," which once stood out for its density, seems spare: a lot of white space; little, if any, visual progression from panel to panel.

We exited and peeked into some of the mosques along our route, structures built in a style that seems spare and serious compared with the architectural excess of the homes.

Mr. Mills doesn't seem to spare many details; if anything, there's an overabundance.

It's enough to make "Nanny McPhee Returns," a sequel coming in August from Universal Pictures, seem downright spare.

The two roles continue to play a large part in his daily schedule, which is why his October campaign plans seem so spare, he explained.

For anyone used to a richly orchestrated "Poppea," the Boston presentation will seem shockingly spare: the orchestra was a string quartet and six continuo players (two chittarones, two harpsichords, viola da gamba and Baroque harp).

The conjuring of nightmare is a staple of Johnson's fiction, and it's what he does here, too: the situation in Monrovia would seem to spare him the need to invent.