spartanly

Ave where, while our parents meditated endlessly, Mallika and I (and numerous other kids of recently recruited meditators -- my dad has always had an instinct for starting movements himself) were forced to entertain ourselves in spartanly furnished rooms that smelled of broccoli and tofu.

Gotham Chopra: A Brief History of a Meditator 2010

Ave where, while our parents meditated endlessly, Mallika and I (and numerous other kids of recently recruited meditators -- my dad has always had an instinct for starting movements himself) were forced to entertain ourselves in spartanly furnished rooms that smelled of broccoli and tofu.

Gotham Chopra: A Brief History of a Meditator 2010

Designed by the leading Chinese architect Pei Zhu, whose Olympic digital command center looks like a monolithic microchip, it offers spartanly stylish rooms at 1,280 yuan (about $166, at 7.7 yuan to the dollar) a night, in a five-story minimalist box wrapped in a diaphanous fiberglass grid.

Road to Beijing | Impact Lab 2007

When folks had a lot of cravings, they gained, even if they ate spartanly.

Food for Thought 2006

The doctor's space was small and outfitted spartanly.

Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006

Jeremy had cooked dinner with his customary skill—Jason's dinners tended to be spartanly plain and Joshua's absentmindedly burnt.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

Jeremy had cooked dinner with his customary skill—Jason's dinners tended to be spartanly plain and Joshua's absentmindedly burnt.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

The main room was neat and spartanly furnished with a carved wooden table and seven chairs.

Waylander Gemmell, David 1986

Gracious in the style of nineteenth-century diplomats, he lived spartanly at the old castle, his room overlooking the Vistula.

Poland Michener, James 1983

During those dispiriting days, with at least two decades of social and literary activity behind him, spartanly supporting himself and his family on little more than a few thousand dollars a year, Goodman was shaken with the belittling thought that the most 'expressive relation' to an America of 'venality and folly,' 'to that stingy world,' he could possibly manage was 'to be spitefully Utopian, to bawl.'

Good Man Mazzocco, Robert 1970