sparseness

Example Sentences

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But most of all, the song is an unadorned message directly to his wife, hence its simplicity, its sparseness, the intimacy of the vocal.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2023

Yet the sparseness of Beethoven's sketches made it impossible for symphony experts to go beyond that first movement.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2021

The sparseness of trees and other vegetation near the peaks means that when fires do start in, or move to, those elevations, “they don’t get very big, and they run out of fuel,” Kolden says.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2021

Each time I revisit it, I’m surprised anew by its sparseness.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018

Hence the sparseness of our library table, which renders our old vocation comparatively a sinecure, and leaves us, without the necessity of immolation, to the undisturbed enjoyment of our chair.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various