Dotted here and there, the small, shiny memorials tell sparse stories whose lacunae invite only the worst imaginings, tracing cruel progressions from Germany's capital to Theresienstadt, or Riga, or Minsk, or Auschwitz.
Asked to tell her story, Sita began a sparse account that was frequently interrupted by others in the room.
Terry Gilliam took a collection of classic yarns connected loosely by sparse narrative and wove them into a story.
In order to fill an hour and a half of screen time or an evening of theater, the sparse, fablelike stories had to be stuffed full of character and incident, and the simple plots warped into conventional psychodramas.
Margo Martindale leans conspiratorially toward Beau Bridges on a love seat in an sparse second-story lounge at CBS Studios in the San Fernando Valley.
Despite having a cast of teenage boys who look old enough to be Katty's teachers, Mr. Justiniano shows a remarkable amount of trust in keeping the story sparse.
Chandran and the GamePro review both also criticized the "sparse and slow" story, while Eurogamer's Fahey dismissed it as "a gossamer-thin layer which tries and fails miserably to hold everything together" and nothing more than several role-playing game clichés stuck together.
Two years ago, Simon & Schuster published an under-the-radar book of reflections by Winger titled "Undiscovered," an almost defiantly nonchronological amalgam of poems, observations, a few sparse show-biz stories and an intimate account of her reaction to her mother's death.
There has been sparse coverage of the story and an absence of supportive editorial comment.
Details were, and are, sparse, but since our story broke, an additional rumor has emerged that may or may not bring some more clarity to the situation—how's that for ambiguity?
