Seemingly, traditional building methods are also sparingly applied.
The sparingly applied raspberry sauce on a seared duck breast ceded center stage to the duck itself, and rightly so.
Morsels of tender breast kept company with hunks of Stilton cheese, several kinds of lettuces and a sparingly applied vinaigrette.
Hall wound up his London set with a vivacious version of his old sparring partner Sonny Rollins's calypso St Thomas, demonstrating his alertness to contemporary technology by sparingly applying a steel-pan effect to the guitar.
In his phrasing, Mr. Alagna too sparingly applies portamento, the technique of connecting notes with a glide that is just audible, an effect that can sound elegant and natural when practiced by a great Verdi stylist like Carlo Bergonzi.
These feelings come through to some extent in the reactions of his wife, Joan Susan Sarandonn), whom he tries to protect, but more decisively, and more hauntingly, through the moods Mr. Haggis creates (with the crucial assistance of Roger Deakins, the cinematographer responsible for the movie's austere, washed-out look, and Mark Isham, who wrote the eerie, sparingly applied musical score).
Classical motifs at first were sparingly applied to furniture of unchanged form, but slowly the curved line of Rococo was replaced by a simpler and more severe rectilinear design: chair legs became straight, tapered, and fluted; commodes and other storage furniture were no longer of bombé form.
A classic example is Germany, where security of position and adequate pay generate dangerous complacency; indeed, throughout Europe performance-related pay and promotion are rarely found and even more sparingly applied.
The change they're seeking is for digital data to no longer be seen as a limitless resource to be siphoned off, stored and ceaselessly data-mined; but as a potential liability to be collected sparingly, applied carefully and deleted the moment it's no longer needed — because the financial risk of holding on to it has suddenly, drastically inflated.
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