sparse
Speech parts
1. sparse - Adjective
2. sparse - Verb
4. sparse - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.
Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.
To scatter; to disperse.
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What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.
In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
The world had been repeatedly swept by war and famine and plague when the population had been a quarter of what it was now! Less than a hundred years ago. Sparse population didn't equal peace. It never had. All it meant were fewer casualties.
I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all.
I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.