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Перевод: sparing

[прилагательное]
умеренный; скудный; недостаточный; бережливый

Тезаурус:

1. Flanner is rather sparing about details of Picasso's personal life, knowing it to be so extensively documented.
2. The chances of Eubank ending up a punch-drunk boxing casualty are remote, and, likewise, he's sparing in the abuse of his victims.
3. Though they were as a rule sparing in the use of force, this was for reasons which seem not to have included sympathy with civil disobedience.
4. The girl was sparing with her smiles.
5. These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness: the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary; the sparing use of adjectives; the composition of short, essential paragraphs added one to the other, not like bricks, in the conventional metaphor of story-building, but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground - with all of these techniques, Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and "that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history" (Celati 1975: 14; cf.
6. A letter to a Front soldier from a citizen of Grlitz in late June or early July 1940 undoubtedly spoke for many in stating that, following the "unimaginably great" events which had been seen each week in the newsreels, "we will never be able to thank the Fhrer and brave army enough for sparing us at home the horrors of war", and that an "immensely great" future awaited Germany "in the construction of Europe after the final victory".
7. Is a "sparing amount" given to a community of thirty small tropical fish also adequate for a dozen hungry Rift Cichlids in a larger aquarium?
8. The first, having special application to devout families, was that God had favoured the dead child, by taking it to Himself and so sparing it both the suffering of this world and the danger that its relative innocence (for children were born in sin) would become corrupted.
9. But they advise sparing use of such melodramatic tactics "unless you think you can consistently use your reputation as a high-strung hysteric to your advantage".
10. Extensive grassland based systems are especially sparing of energy use (14) and could well assume an increasing importance not only for this reason but also because the rate of expansion of production has now declined to around 2% per annum in lowland agriculture and may not increase (15).
11. And although the Newsons concede the chicken and egg possibility - do you smack a child because he is delinquent, or is he delinquent because he is smacked? - they argue that their findings do not support the old belief that sparing the rod spoils the child, but suggest that at the very least, mothers who smack do not succeed in producing non-delinquent children.
12. Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them, his criticism is dispersed, though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember.
13. Since there was no sparing of the short-pitched stuff, and no intervention from the umpires, to continue would probably only have resulted in an injury anyway.