"But the meat was so lean that they got too salty and dry".
Chefs agree that commercial pork is now so lean that it is almost impossible to cook.
(I was less impressed with the pâté de campagne appetizer, well flavored but so lean that it was crumbly).
He is small and still so lean that he looks as if he were made from wires and cables.
Saramago, who is 84, is an austere man, extremely tall and so lean that he is practically concave.
"Choice" meat (what you usually get in a supermarket) is more than acceptable, but "good" meat is so lean that the whole point will be lost.
Company policies contribute to unemployment by requiring overwork, and organizations staff so lean that any absence generates problems – leading to more unpredictability for employees.
On top of that, a relentless effort to wring waste out of their systems means some producers now run so lean that their inventory consists of whatever is in transit by FedEx or UPS.
Some economists say the weakness of hiring in recent years may protect those with jobs against the usual impact of a recession: Many companies are so lean that the unemployment rate may not increase much.
Most of the groups run on budgets so lean that cuts will have to be made to programs immediately, the institutions warn, but a surge of support from local residents would help.
Editorial staffs tend to shrink along the way: Mr Montgomery once remarked that there was no newsroom so lean that he could not cut it further.As head of the Mecom Group, which took over newspapers in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Poland, he earned the nickname "Rommel," after the pitiless German field-marshal.
