Word: spare
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...page three I was hooked, reeled in by Dyer's witty dialog and his spare, exquisitely descriptive prose: the tiny balcony of his rented flat in New Orleans, for example, overlooked "a vacant lot which seethed with unspecified threat." His suicidal friend Donelly, asked if he might possibly be an alcoholic, replies "I should hope so, after all the time, money and effort I've put into it." By the fourth chapter, I was as much an accomplice to Dyer's quest for experience as his poor Parisian sidekick who smokes marijuana for the first time while on a romp...
Across the corridor from those star-studded signed portraits are fire safes filled with just about every hard-drive spare part that has ever existed--many of which can't be found even at the manufacturing company. DriveSavers is the only data-recovery firm licensed by all the major hard-drive makers, like Toshiba and Western Digital, meaning you can use its services without breaking the drive's warranty. This began when former manufacturer Micropolis had hard-drive failures in its own office and had to sheepishly admit it was unable to fix its own creations. Gaidano was there...
...witnessed is too considerable to ignore. Almost all of my good friends and casual acquaintances (most of whom are coincidentally headed to outstanding law schools, Wall Street firms, etc.) are professional procrastinators. Problem sets are rarely finished with more than an hour or two to spare, papers are always started the night (or morning) before, and website contributions for section are always written extemporaneously. I even know a few seniors who wrote the bulk (40-50 pages) of their respective theses—their alledgedly year-long, “capstone” experiences—in the span...
...moved to Berkeley, Calif., and embarked on a six-year internship as a psychotherapist. She now informally counsels students at the local junior high school, gardening and woodworking in her spare time...
Verba says he prefers to read novels in his spare time, mixing contemporary fiction with classics. He went through a phase where he would devote each summer to reading a thick Charles Dickens novel like Bleak House...