Sentence examples for a severe style from inspiring English sources

Women's hair, always worn long during the century, was from about 1840 to 1870 dressed in a severe style in which it was drawn back tightly from a centre parting into a bun at the back.

After Hardorff's death, the main proponent of Classicism was Christian Frederik Hansen who developed a more severe style with clean, simple forms and large, unbroken surfaces.

She wore her hair in a fashionable but severe style and was sometimes seen with an unsmiling countenance in her appearances.

The building was designed by the theater architect Thomas Lamb in a severe moderne style.

1870 Syracuse, New York October 7, 1936 Lakeside, California Irving John Gill, (born 1870, Syracuse, New York, U.S. died October 7, 1936, Carlsbad, California) American architect important for introducing a severe, geometric style of architecture in California and for his pioneering work in developing new construction technology.

Wrinkles and a severe hair style, coupled with innate shyness, completed her image.

Introduced to Noh by Ezra Pound, Yeats adopted its severe style and formal strictures to portray an episode from the saga of Cuchulain, a mythological Irish hero.

Ms. Wang also made the dress for Ivanka Trump's wedding last year, and its tight lace bodice and elbow-length sleeves, somewhat based on the severe style of Grace Kelly's bridal dress, reflected a sophisticated taste.

The latter class of art exerted an influence on John Flaxman, who was enormously admired for the severe style of his engravings and relief carvings.

"The inference is that only the severe style is really serious.

If this writing is made to lean to the right and to revive the 3rd-century-bce distinction between narrow and broad letters, it takes on the aspect of the "severe" style of the Bacchylides roll in the British Museum (2nd century ce).