Sentence examples for an austere image from inspiring English sources

He cultivated such an austere image that he did not buy a refrigerator until a decade ago.

He masks the Pharaonic enrichment of his political circle by projecting an austere image of shrewd bluster and manly bravado.

Do you never cry yourselves?" Mr Lilico, an old friend of Mr Osborne's, argues that he has deliberately cultivated an austere image to counter early portrayals of him as a callow lightweight, up against the "clunking fist" of Gordon Brown.

Though the retired soldiers had sadly neglected to opt for jingle bells or white beards, their scarlet coats and Samantha Cameron's choice of a white dress gave the austere image at least a nod to festivity.

Cleaned and its original luminousness restored, this austere image, a trompe l'oeil "tour de force," the blood seeming to trickle from Christ's feet down to the edge of the picture, is vibrant with reformist zeal.

The PP used Aznar's austere image as a former tax inspector as an asset to attack the more flamboyant González and to accuse the PSOE of corruption and arrogance.

Influenced by Impressionism, Chase presents a much softer and less austere image than that of Mrs. Manice.

Apart from this, she gives little away about her personal life and cultivates an austere public image.

In an effort to distance the Conservatives from the austere image associated with the Tories in the past, Mr. Cameron has outlined plans for a yearly tax credit of £150, or $230 ,for married couples of modest means.

Bizarre though it may seem, given his austere image, but no politician enjoyed a laugh more than Ian Paisley.

But now some teachers are poking holes in this austere image, infusing levity into classes in an effort to appeal to more students.