Sentence examples for To be austere from inspiring English sources

Promise No.3: to be "austere and transparent".

But they also tend to be austere.

It feels decadent and vulgar to ask one's government, or oneself, not to be austere.

The dry German rieslings I've tasted tend to be austere and tight.

It's good to be austere in respect of one's own eating and drinking, fitness and finances and personal spending.

Past Saudi leaders tended to be austere and distant, presenting as the vanguards of inscrutable royal bureaucracies.

"My own parents tend to be severe and austere".

What I first thought would be hokey and touristy turned into an entertaining and dignified look at another culture, one I once believed to be severe and austere.

But just as even the blandest food has some taste, no music can be austere to the point of expressing nothing.

And, naturally, typography is an overriding concern that is often ignored: "Good typography is a prerequisite for optimal legibility and demands a particular and considered approach to text.... Type can be austere or accessible, straight or rounded, emotive or exaggerated".

"Eden" would be austere and searching.