According to Bayley, "their homes and workshops could be read like books: fastidiously restored character architecture or bravely commissioned new-build, always beautiful, comfortable, well-considered, but also disciplined and, perhaps, a touch austere".
The extra brut from Lassaigne, whose grapes come from Montgueux, far removed from the other producers, was likewise distinctive, very dry with a touch of caramel, not austere at all.
Austere and a touch obsessive, she reported from the wrecked villages and shattered towns of Chechnya, talking to those on all sides and none, with endless patience and gritty determination.She neither sentimentalised the Chechen rebels nor demonised the Russian conscripts ill-armed, ill-fed and ill-led—who have conscripts ill-armed' half-baked independence.
And my OKA elephant lamp could add a touch of style without being too adult austere.
British band Coldplay added a touch of showbiz glamour to the otherwise austere and technocratic meeting of the World Trade Organisation's conference yesterday.
Austere and elegant, the W950i has a "touch" keypad with touchscreen.
(For the austere classicists of St Paul's Girls Schooll in London, a touch of koine is regarded as a "Christmas treat").In practice, few classes bond quite as tightly as the six students featured in Donna Tartt's bestselling novel "The Secret History" (in a pastiche of Euripides's "Bacchae", they commit and conceal two vicious murders).
She thinks his life is too guiltily austere, and never buying clothes or good wine or a single painting is a touch pretentious.
The images Christenberry gives us, of a faded rural South peppered with austere old churches and run-down honky-tonks, are affectionate but sober, with a touch of sadness.
The performance, with its sharp edges and striking contours, made a compelling case for the work, which evolves from fairly austere textures, through a warm, full-toned slow movement to a finale that shows a touch of Bach's influence.
