The phrase "austere academic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a scholar or educational environment that is serious, strict, or lacking in comfort or luxury.
Example: "The austere academic atmosphere of the university was reflected in its minimalist architecture and rigorous curriculum."
Alternatives: "stern scholar" or "strict academic".
Kirkpatrick, an austere academic with a crooked scowl, was about as unlikely a politician as you can imagine.
Sixty when the book was published, and an austere academic, he was nevertheless a romantic about teenagers.
Those who would frame Bach as austere, academic and joyless have their ammunition in Elias Gottlob Haussmann's paintings, and in the death-shadowed devotional texts that the composer set to music.
was the first place collectors turned for new works, but when Mr. Dalton arrived in 1990, it had gained a reputation as a dusty repository of austere academic music.
With Fu, we have something altogether different, an implicitly more austere, possibly academic artist, but one immersed in his moment.
For all its ornate complexities, so seamlessly stewarded by the conductor that even a well-meant programme guide could not help the novice tell where one variation yielded to the next, this is one of those austere works of rather more academic interest than sensory pleasure.
While many academics have written about this austere master, Knowlson is the person Beckett called "the one who knows my work best".
The fact that his language is often austere and abstract, and peppered with the jargon of academic philosophy, merely compounds the problem.The second half of the book, in which Mr Grayling sets out his take on the ethical system known as humanism, is more likely to win converts.
Serra was a kindred spirit who abandoned a high-profile academic post to take on the dangerous, austere life of a missionary.
Reprints of academic monologues from Oxford University Press put out by Sandpiper Press are as austere as ever.
The austere economic landscape and the need for all types of healthcare systems, from academic medical centers to community hospitals, to provide a more coordinated and economical product dictate an urgent need for anesthesiologists to challenge our current successful business model and our assumptions about the market forces, mission, and core competencies of our specialty [ 83, 84, 98].
