The spareness, learned in his youth from the poet Louis Bouilhet, is still there – as in the opening of "Hautot & Son" (1889), where, as Sean O'Faolain writes, "the scene is brilliantly and swiftly painted, with three lines for the countryside and six for the sportsmen" – but the stories' scope helps avoid the glibness that can mar his shorter work.
Harriet Gibsone Dan Michaelson's songs are characterised by the subdued beauty of their lyrics and the silt-deep voice that sings them, but this year's Distance also brought a musical fluidity to that spareness, creating the richest and most cohesive record of his career.
The clipped, melancholic spareness of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, author of "The Playboy of the Western World", is detectable in Beckett, as are the windswept landscapes of the paintings of Jack Yeats, brother of the poet W.B.Yeats.
Mr Walcott's diction at times recalls the spareness of Eliot, and he lapses momentarily into rhyme, just as Eliot does: "or the eye leaves it too quickly, its disgrace,/requiring more and more strength, more and more prayer,/pray at the border of the sweetness of despair /its obscure grace".
Her face, powerful in its spareness, registers emotion with subtle ticks and readjustments.
Spareness of form, discipline, and suggestion rather than explicit statement are Zen attributes found in these and other arts cultivated by the military ruling class (samurai) of the time.
Basie began his career as a stride pianist, reflecting the influence of Johnson and Waller, but the style most associated with him was characterized by spareness and precision.
The spareness of their music was partly imposed by their lack of virtuosity.
What can you say about Indian fiction?...You can point to both its extravagances and its spareness.
But Beaton's portraits also evince a startling purity — a sensual directness and a spareness of composition that seem to free his subjects from their respective eras rather than pin them down.
Van Hove does not always rely on spareness to make a familiar play seem new.
