Sentence examples for a more austere setting from inspiring English sources

The next morning, it was a return to a more austere setting when I followed the signs through Ste.

Mrs. McNutt, who will provide coffee and cookies for those who attend and will count votes in a Frosty the Snowman top hat, appreciates the more conversational atmosphere of her house, as opposed to the more austere setting of a public building.

But the style that is usual in the acting world can sound effusive and insincere in a more austere technical or scientific setting.

Miss Middleton is eschewing the traditional horse-drawn carriage for her arrival to set a more austere tone, though the couple will still leave in one.

The centre-left government in Spain looks set to fall as a result of its austerity programme – not to the leftists, however, but to a more austere regime of the right.

The novelist Tim Parks proposed that e-books offered "a more austere, direct engagement" with words.

Occasionally the script drips purple when a more austere shade of prose would serve better.

But at only 22p each, they are meals which, she believes, reflect a more austere time.

It's a more austere front and more modern in its styling and detailing.

Many Icelanders seemed encouraged by thoughts of a more austere, domestic, and less self-consciously potent national reputation.

It is a deliberate – and understandable – step into a more austere artistic guise.