Sentence examples for sparse book from inspiring English sources

He adapted Hold the Dark from a sparse book, a literary novel by the writer and critic William Giraldi, an instructor at Boston University and an editor at the journal AGNI, who's as protective and fierce about language as anyone in existence.

The company, formed with four fellow collegians, has published 100 slim, graphics-sparse books.

The action proper starts in the present day, with Don's popularity dwindling; his audiences are sparse, his book sales are scant, and — though he continues to express the hope of spreading the faith and helping to save the souls of those who hear his message — he can't separate his activities from the quest for adulation and the pride of success.

Illustrations and photos are sparse; this book is suited for all audiences but will probably not be as useful for college students and scholars, who will need more detailed information and interpretation than the work provides.

The list below is notably sparse in books by women.

And Parker supplies some personal explanations for his work that are lacking in the sparse text throughout the book.

Erotica and crime feature strongly, there's a good peppering of literary fiction, but non-fiction is sparse and children's books failed to chart at all.

The book proceeds in sparse, aphoristic fragments, almost like prose poems.

The narrative can be hard to follow, and the photo captions are sparse or nonexistent, but the book's impressionistic approach makes it stand out from its workaday how-to counterparts.

'Yellow Book' Warning Among the sparse material published on the subject is a notation in Health Information for International Travel 1999-2000, the "yellow book," published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Though Gibbon's sparse prose occasionally feels stilted, her book artfully throws attention from a famous painter onto the woman he paints.