This style reflects art Streamline Moderne and Art Deco influences with its sleek lines, sparse but effective ornamentation, and ample opportunities for individually expressive special features.

It took its water from its own well situated under the brewery which is fed from the South Downs, and the yeast and ' liquor ' ( local water used for brewing ), coupled with the local brewing style, produce beers with a sparse head, quite dark in colour.

Mendes ' dominating visual style was deliberate and composed, with a minimalist design that provided " a sparse, almost surreal feeling — a bright, crisp, hard edged, near Magritte-like take on American suburbia "; Mendes constantly directed his set dressers to empty the frame.

On the later albums recorded by the remaining duo, the arrangements were sparse and heavily electronic, the singing evolved from abstract screams and mumbles to a very direct, rhythmic vocal style, and their live performances were delivered with such intensity that a 1980 concert in Düsseldorf had to be stormed by the police to bring the crowd under control.

With a unique, sparse drawing style that contrasted greatly with other cartoons of the day, not to mention the novelty of a human character in a field crowded with talking mice, rabbits, and bears, the Mr. Magoo series won accolades for UPA.

With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone description, Lawson created a style and defined Australians: dryly laconic, passionately egalitarian and deeply humane.

From its inception, the style has been characterized by hard and often sparse danceable electronic beats, clear undistorted vocals, shouts or growls with reverberation and echo effects, and repetitive sequencer lines.

Joe Zawinul's playing style was often dominated by quirky melodic improvisations ( simultaneously bebop -, ethnic -, and pop-sounding ) combined with sparse but rhythmic big-band chords or bass lines.

Bands like Gari Kubwa, Tokyo Ngma and Atomic Advantage are among the pioneers of this style, which uses four drums and a keyboard for a sparse sound.

In these landscapes, monochromatic and sparse ( a style that is collectively called shuimohua ), the purpose was not to reproduce exactly the appearance of nature ( realism ) but rather to grasp an emotion or atmosphere so as to catch the " rhythm " of nature.

In 1999, film critic Mike Emery wrote, " Kubrick's camerawork was well on the way to finding the fluid style of his later work, and the sparse, low-budget circumstances give the film a raw, urgent sort of look.

Designed by the renowned architect Phillip Johnson in the sparse modernist style of the time, the " New Dorms " were completed in 1960.

Though the novel is sparse in style, it covers a number of topics: personal shame, the subjugation of women, a changing country, animal rights, and romantic poetry and its symbolism.

The style of the front covers of Les Éditions de Minuit books remains almost as sparse as the wartime edition of Le Silence de la mer.

Also eclectic is Janco's sparse contribution to the architecture of Israel, including a Herzliya Pituah villa that is entirely built in the non-modernist Poble Espanyol style.

His musical style ranges from sparse, unaccompanied folk music to full rock and roll band arrangements comparable to Neil Young or Dinosaur Jr .. His solo recordings also often include sound experiments, reminiscent of psychedelia, with a distinctly Eastern bent.

Somewhat melodically sparse, the piece features repetition, sequences, and shifting meters, recalling Eric Satie and Igor Stravinsky and pointing the way forward for Poulenc's developing style.

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Equally important was the influence of fellow artist Peter Purves Smith in guiding him towards his characteristic mature style with its use of desolate landscapes inhabited by sparse figures under ominous skies.

Craig was noted for his sparse, highly elegant literary style, together with a tendency to keep an ironic distance from his subjects.

The series employed a quite idiosyncratic style of animation, notable especially for its dark tone and sparse, industrial soundtrack.

Nobutsuna perfected a style of sword fighting that was freer in its movements, more sparse, more restrained, more adapted to brawls and to duels, than to the fields of large scale battles.

In the Kunar and Nuristan regions US forces continue to pursue a hybrid style of COIN warfare, with its focus on the population, and mountain warfare, whereby the US forces seize and hold the high ground while protecting the geo-compartmented communities found in the sparse valleys.

From the sparse pictorial evidence we have of the republican Roman army, it seems that in Italy the Corinthian helmet evolved into a jockey-cap style helmet called the Italo-Corinthian, Etrusco-Corinthian or Apulo-Corinthian helmet, with the characteristic nose guard and eye slits becoming mere decorations on its face.

In cases with a sparse valid input set, hash functions can be used to provide more efficient lookup access than a full table.

While attendance for this first serious attempt to create a " funny animal fandom " convention was sparse at 65 persons, it was enough to encourage the Californians to attempt a full fledged furry convention next year.

Nests often are made in the full sun where vegetation is sparse.

It wouldn't be until 1993 that Borgudd made his full time return to automobiles, joining the works Mazda team and driving a Mazda Xedos 6 in the British Touring Car Championship ( BTCC ) with sparse results.

Almost all were discovered accidentally ; it did not prove possible to assess their full significance properly and they have been sparse in number given the long known history of settlement.

This gradual erosion of the originally sparse texture, reflected in the hyphenated title ( meaning " Against Points "), complements three parallel processes already present in the first version: ( 1 ) the heterogeneous timbres of the full ensemble are gradually reduced to the " monochrome " of the solo piano ; ( 2 ) widely fluctuating durations reduce to similar values ; ( 3 ) wide-ranging dynamics reduce to a generally soft level.

Its wildlife however, both fauna and flora, though sparse, are full of interest.

) The singer repeats the final word like a mantra, accompanied by a sparse mix of strings, mandolin, harps, and celesta, until the music fades into silence, the final chord " imprinted on the atmosphere " as Benjamin Britten put it.

Instead of soloing in the straight, conventional, melodic way, Davis ’ s new style of improvisation featured rapid mode and scale changes played against sparse chord changes .< ref name = jazzplaza > Davis ' second collaboration with Gil Evans on Porgy and Bess gave him more room for experimentation with Russell's concept and with third stream playing, as Evans ' compositions for Davis featured this modal approach.

" The Song otherwise conforms to a basic I-flatVII sparse chord structure with 8-bar verse A sections and 12-bar B sections in an ABAB pattern.

The best chance, of course, is offered by gently sloping terrain where the water remains close to the surface and where the air is dry, so that a high evaporation leaves salty deposits which permit only sparse plant growth.

Evidence for ( or against ) the existence of diatomic astatine ( At < sub > 2 </ sub >) is sparse and inconclusive.

Offshore anchorage is sparse and intermittent, but poses no problem to sailboats designed for the ice, typically with lifting keels and long shorelines.

While ecologically sparse, the habitat's climate is controlled by complex machinery in the lower levels.

The well-watered north of the continent is often called the " Top End " and the arid interior " The Red Centre ", owing to its vast amounts of red soil and sparse greenery amongst its landscape.

Air transport is relied on for mail delivery in some areas, owing to sparse settlement and wet-season road closures.

( The pre-Cambrian fossil record of animals is sparse and ambiguous.

It is treeless, with sparse vegetation consisting of four kinds of grass, prostrate vines and low-growing shrubs.

The sparse human population is largely nomadic, with some livestock, mostly small ruminants and camels.

This is region of sparse rainfall and high median temperatures has been included as part of the East Sudanian savanna ecoregion.

Although some rain comes during the latter season, rainfall is sparse overall and very erratic.

alt = A sharp blue river divides the cityscape, which is primarily greenery and sparse low-rise buildings in the foreground, and dense with several modern high-rises in the background

Rainfall is sparse, but sudden showers do cause harsh flooding.

In a harsh and barren land where rainfall is very sparse and unreliable, Cholistanis rely mainly on their livestock of sheep, goats, and camel.

The total amount of scattering in a sparse medium is determined by the product of the scattering cross-section and the number of particles present.

He was born in Rome — in either 1475 or 1476 — the son of Cardinal Rodrigo de Lanzol y Borgia, soon to become Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, about whom information is sparse.

The animal fossil record from this period is sparse, possibly because animals had yet to evolve hard shells, which make for easier fossilization.

In combinatorics, an expander graph is a sparse graph that has strong connectivity properties, quantified using vertex, edge or spectral expansion as described below.

On very poor soils, and especially where fire is a recurrent phenomenon, woody savannas develop ( see ' sparse trees and parkland ').

At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forest or taiga, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuous closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous.

A wavelet-based approximate FFT by Guo and Burrus ( 1996 ) takes sparse inputs / outputs ( time / frequency localization ) into account more efficiently than is possible with an exact FFT.

The Edelman algorithm works equally well for sparse and non-sparse data, since it is based on the compressibility ( rank deficiency ) of the Fourier matrix itself rather than the compressibility ( sparsity ) of the data.

Conversely, if the data are sparse — that is, if only K out of N Fourier coefficients are nonzero — then the complexity can be reduced to O ( K log N log ( N / K )), and this has been demonstrated to lead to practical speedups compared to an ordinary FFT for N / K > 32 in a large-N example ( N = 2 < sup > 22 </ sup >) using a probabilistic approximate algorithm ( which estimates the largest K coefficients to several decimal places ).

A sparse population is confined to small settlements along the coast.