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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

He cautioned that this is “particularly challenging region of the world” to investigate in this kind of study, however, because of a relative sparseness of meteorological data and the complex climatology of the area.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 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 the museum hasn’t deterred visitors.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021

The arguments urged against its construction are the length of the route, the sparseness of population, and the cheap rates at which freight is now transported.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace