leanness

Your novel, as translated by Sam Bett, has a leanness in its language and imagery that is reminiscent of a great manga or a movie script.

“The look of leanness that they reach is inhuman,” Pla said, “and completely unsustainable.”

Like Cash’s life, there’s a rawness and a poetic leanness to Rendon’s prose.

Katz, a spry man whose leanness and perfectly bald head lend him an aura of debonair elegance, greets me without introduction or preamble.

The leanness of baby back ribs makes them less conducive to long, slow braises or smokes than our other rib choices, because they don't have a layer of fat to protect them from drying out.