Sentence examples for and austerity of the from inspiring English sources

Claude chose to film it that way; he wanted to show the rigidity and austerity of the pine forests, also perhaps as a metaphor for what's hiding under the bark".

Mr Cannadine shows how the Bond stories looked both backwards and forwards, venerating the toughness, patriotism and austerity of the Victorian era, while also revelling in the flashy materialism and sexual freedom of a more louche era.

This is an age of aesthetic extremes, whether in the demotic blandishments of mass entertainment or the gravity and austerity of the art houses' so-called slow cinema — but neither style or mode has priority over the other.

And to suggest that the all too real social injustices in this country are comparable to the tyranny, terror, oppression and austerity of the fabric of daily life in Eastern Europe is simply an insult to the intelligence, let alone to the people that suffered them.

It seems unlikely that Hildebrand was a monk, and the distinction between canon and monk is significant because the reform undertaken by the regular canons was in the vanguard of the ecclesiastical revival that sought to restore the glory and austerity of the early Christian church as pictured by churchmen in the 11th century.

The simplicity and austerity of the images erased all distractions from the sole focus: the human face.

While improving health and social welfare services, Lee continually emphasized the necessity of cooperation, discipline, and austerity on the part of the average Singaporean.

European leaders instead praise the reforms and austerity of Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister.

Denis cover drove away the drudgery and austerity of post-War Britain, and headed for the nearest bar to cry freedom.

There are recurring motifs: the cultural and social austerity of the provincial Canada of her youth, young motherhood, love, adultery, betrayal, premature death, the loss of a child, aging.

The big news this week is that the bankers are back in charge and fiscal austerity of the Tea Party/Republican kind is ascendant everywhere.