sparing

Lawrence is sparing in his style, the image desaturated like a vintage photograph, locating this fable in an unspecified future.

It’s also expedient and facile, sparing the party from looking inward and doing the truly hard work it faces.

By reducing and delaying many of the governor’s proposed cuts, the budget continues a practice at the state Capitol of sparing state programs from immediate pain while avoiding taking on California’s long term budget woes.

If the State Bar developed its own questions, it figured it could save money by sparing the expense of renting massive exam halls for all test takers.

She is excruciatingly introspective but in perfect control of every sentence and emotion — withholding, sparing or repeating words to produce observations that gleam with intelligence and insight but keep their author shadowed.