(a.) Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Nicolas Sarkozy held his first comeback rally, he sweated profusely on a small stage in a stuffy and spartan gymnasium in the south of France.
(2) They built spartan, concrete residential blocks on their remaining property, subdivided them into scores of tiny rooms and rented them out to migrant workers from the countryside.
(3) Simultaneous measurements of biochemical and physiological events of compensatory renal hypertrophy were made in groups of white Spartan rats.
(4) The very first inkling of what would be dubbed the Bristol sound was the Wild Bunch's spartan treatment of Bacharach and David's classic The Look of Love , released in 1988 on 4th & Broadway.
(5) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(6) Gaskill’s Spartan staging of Macbeth, with Alec Guinness and Simone Signoret in 1966, received dreadful notices that led to a ferocious tussle with the London critics.
(7) Opened last year by the Irish Youth Hostel Association ( anoige.ie ), its somewhat institutional architecture, utilitarian concrete floors and Ikea furnishings may be too spartan for some, but the bright interiors and views of Glencree valley more than compensated.
(8) Alfred Parsons (1864-1952) was noted for his vigour of mind and body and Spartan habits and his dramatic teaching.
(9) Nevertheless, again, unusually "normally" for a royal, he attended school, even if it was the notoriously spartan Gordonstoun.
(10) George Jameson, rallying with Reclaim Australia in a replica Spartan military outfit, said they weren’t racists and had come together to stand up for freedom of speech.
(11) There's a suggestion the player will also take control of another Spartan investigating the series hero – more on that later.
(12) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
(13) The episode is illustrative of Sontag's emotionally spartan childhood, which produced a self-contained but not insular child.
(14) Orwell's letters were bucolic - lots of stuff about horses, flowers and fishing - but the references to the house suggest that 'spartan' may be too generous a description.
(15) For now, Halo spin-off Halo: Spartan Assault remains exclusive to Windows-powered device.
(16) *** Five hours before the People’s PPE meeting, I pitch up at a grim-looking office block next to Euston station, buzz the entry phone and go up a couple of flights of stairs into a warren of spartan rooms.
(17) 10.10am: Barry Glendenning's paper view has arrived to round up the Fourth Estate's perspective this morning: In the Mirror, Oliver Holt is busily fighting John Terry's corner, claiming that the former skipper deserves credit, not opprobium, for being the only England player prepared to speak out about the "spartan regime they have been living under for the last five weeks".
(18) Apart, perhaps, from Skipper's spartan office which looks out over a car park and the windowless neighbouring building of the department of work and pensions.
(19) It was here that he refined his incomparable talent for drawing, but in his early years he was drawn to history painting – young Spartans , Semiramis – and the dreamy style of symbolists such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau .
(20) It portrays the heroic endeavours of 300 Spartans, under King Leonidas, who are shown resisting an invading force of 120,000 Persian troops led by Emperor Xerxes.
Succinct
Definition:
(a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
(a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this article is to review many of these points in a succinct and practical fashion for the nurse who may be considering such a move.
(2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
(3) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
(4) A number of applications of the various methods are included, with examples of succinct summary displays.
(5) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
(6) Last Wednesday, at a parliamentary round table, paediatrician Dr Ingrid Wolfe, one of the co-authors of Why Children Die published in May, gave a succinct and shocking analysis of why the UK has the second worst mortality rate for children in western Europe.
(7) His appraisal of Argentina’s current squad is succinct: “Alejandro [Sabella]has shown he isn’t closed in on a single idea of how to play, having tried many variables and combinations,” he says.
(8) Human fibroblast interferon, obtained by chromatography on concanavalin A-agarose, was stable for at least a month in 30--50 per cent ethylene glycol at 4 degrees, --20 degrees, and --70 degrees C. The succinct point of the present finding is that human fibroblast interferon may be stabilized by ethylene glycol alone without the addition of bovine serum albumin and 'back-contamination' of the interferon preparation.
(9) Perhaps the most significant problem in prosthodontics today is the need to succinctly define the parameters of prosthodontic practice in order to provide guidelines for assuring that such practices are limited to the defined specialty.
(10) Prospects for preventing and treating AIDS have been succinctly summarized.
(11) But his Olympic monument seems to lack the pith and succinctness with which he usually engages people.
(12) The fourth premise is expressed succinctly in the 11 principles outlined in the 1983 AAMC monograph "Preserving America's Preeminence in Medical Research," which places important responsibilities for the collective success of the U.S. research program on all of the various components of society.
(13) As Lauren Laverne, the BBC6 Music DJ, succinctly put it, it was Seeger's destiny to be "loved and hated by precisely the right people".
(14) Mohammed Samy's message was a succinct model of blind adulation: "Fairouz is my life."
(15) We consider this tonic pain model indeed offers a succinct empirical paradigm to study human pain responsivity in general.
(16) Cameron's reply was succinct: "She may be many things, but she's not a Cherie."
(17) In the TE ORFs there are no indications of selection for the codons prevalent in the other D. melanogaster genes, but rather codon usage can be succinctly summarized in terms of the base composition at silent sites.
(18) People magazine succinctly summed up Sade's enduring appeal as "the voice of comfort to the wounded heart".
(19) Bill Black, the wise sage of the sport who coached Team GB's men in Sydney, puts it succinctly.
(20) Peter Scheer, director of the First Amendment coalition, explained the consequences of the Gawker case succinctly: Say five years from now, if Trump loses and people are writing critical postmortems, will they have to worry that Trump will turn around and sue them?