Sentence examples for so sparse that from inspiring English sources

The image is so sparse that it almost borders on abstraction.

The heat was so sparse that the rice had been cooking for hours and was still not ready.

On weekdays, the crowds can be so sparse that it feels as if these little palaces have been cordoned off just for you.

One is that the evidence is so sparse that people are free to frame a favourite hypothesis about what it was that made humans different.

The money became so sparse that when her husband drove her to work for her overnight shift, he would sleep in the car, waiting for her to get out.

He's torn off the leash, running into the avant-garde with rippling tablas flowing almost arhythmically through the stronger beat line, and it's so sparse that until the chorus it could have been made on a four-track.

"If I ever do another HBO special, I would like it to be just as many people, and I'd like it to be called 'Marc Maron: Not Sold Out.' " The ensuing hour was an excursion into Mr. Maron's agitated soul, a ride that returned again and again to the issue of why the audience was so sparse, and what that said about him and the audience.

The Yankees took the field with a lineup so sparse of stars that before the game a local television reporter asked Girardi if he felt sympathy for local fans who might have purchased tickets months ago still expecting to see a lineup that included Jeter, Rodriguez, Teixeira and Granderson.

Land has become so sparse in Iowa that some natives have dared to venture out of state to hunt pheasants.

"Some of the music is so sparse and raw that I think anything too large wouldn't really translate," she said.

Mostly, it's because of Beckett, a writer so sparse with words that the rest of us exhaust our vocabularies trying to open up the meanings in his precisions.