sparseness
Example Sentences
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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
That sparseness may have been the result of the speed with which Nicks wrote “Dreams.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2020
On a set whose sparseness and simple lighting evoke Charlie Rose, Macdonald interviews a single guest each episode.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
Similarly the Tuscans must have been influenced by the grace, the sparseness, the serenity of the olive, its inexhaustible vigour and variety; yet how many of them ever painted it?
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee