Sentence examples for austere attitude from inspiring English sources
It is inexplicable for a government that has spent so liberally that it should adopt such an austere attitude to child internet safety.
Vignelli adopted the self-consciously austere attitudes that might be expected from one with a youthful interest in communism.
Artists such as Anton Raphael Mengs and Jacques-Louis David were particularly inspired by Greek art and consequently shunned all excesses of the day in favor of simple, austere grandeur in both subjects and attitudes.
Austere European chroniclers fumed at the indulgent attitudes to gay sex in the Caliphs' courts (now the censure is the other way).Like liberal Jewish and Christian scholars in recent decades, some Muslim thinkers are now finding theological latitude.
Do present-day Americans still exhibit, in their attitudes and behavior, traces of those austere English Protestants who started arriving in the country in the early 17th century?
A Bold Dissertation His attitudes did not endear him to the austere chairman of the economics department at Harvard, Harold Hitchings Burbank, with whom he had a rocky relationship.
Riley slips through the cracks of the foster care system and hightails it to a small town outside San Francisco, armed only with her sarcastic attitude and a lead on her origins: a prettily austere high school principal named Opal (Lauren Graham), who may be her birth mother's sister.
Contrary to the antinomian Sufis, who violated the Islamic law (Shari'ah) and the more relaxed attitude of some of the other Sufis, Ghazzālī was an austere and ardent observer of Islamic law.
That much is evident in the austere photographs that Hujar took of Thek vamping for the camera in attitudes that shade from the vulnerable to the demonic.
And as we've seen this week, those sharp contrasts - in wealth, infrastructure and attitudes - can find their way into almost any corner of South Africa; even the austere surroundings of Judge Thokozile Masipa's Courtroom D in Pretoria's High Court.
