Sentence examples for would be leaner from inspiring English sources

It is perfectly possible to enjoy Shutter Island as a pulpy melodrama, yet I couldn't help thinking that an actual pulpy melodrama would be leaner in terms of plot; it would move more swiftly and be less self-conscious.

Furthermore, there is an italicised ghost voice running through the text which yearns for both commemoration and closure but distracts without contributing anything significant; the story would be leaner and less sentimental without it.

He gave up a six-figure income and assumed that the first few years of entrepreneurship would be lean.

In the Beijing version, however, the scion would be lean, not rotund, educated at Oxford and Harvard, a returnee to the Chinese capital who drives an Italian sports car and ponders the financial prospects of, perhaps, an eponymous Web site.

Now, you'd think the startups would be leaned on to use it.

For many of us there would be lean months and years ahead, moments of paralyzing doubt and anxiety, bouts of insomnia and rage.

Manca says the journalists later told him they'd been leaned on by "someone at Gucci" not to publish.

Other people were saying I'd been leant on to change my story, saying that it was really a chemtrail molecule dump.

[Note: it is actually, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me".] Other people were saying I'd been leaned on to change my story, saying that it was really a chemtrail-molecule dump.

Maybe he would be slicing pastrami (it wouldn't be lean) in a deli somewhere instead of convulsing audiences with laughter in his irreverent new one-jester show.

(A more likely choice for Zuckerberg would probably be "Lean In," by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg).