Caroline Smith's revival of Daphne du Maurier's The Years Between at the Orange Tree got it absolutely right with austere browns and traditional style.
A number of Givenchy pieces looked appealingly austere — a brown, all-over beaded gown with a curving ridge in front.
Their house was an eerily spare Tudor Colonial, very austere, very brown.
Hopper dressed Jolie in austere grays and browns with knitted gloves, wool serge skirts accompanying cotton blouses, Mary Jane shoes, crocheted corsages and Art Deco jewelry.
"Walking Out the Dark," which had its premiere over the weekend at the American Dance Festival here at Duke University, is a more austere version of the ritualistic pieces Mr. Brown has choreographed in recent years.
They must have been stunning when they were all white, but even now, stripped down to their heavy brown stone, they are vast and austere.
The bathroom unit divides the "bedroom," at the far end of the house, from the "living room," an austere arrangement of Mies van der Rohe stainless-steel-and-brown-leather furniture on a white rug.
For me the 1950s didn't seem especially austere, nor the 60s wild and liberated, nor the 70s sludge-brown – and none of the subsequent decades seems official or even convincing in comparison.
(In a quibble that could arise only in California, the LAO frowned at the budget's appropriation of Prop 39 revenues to meet the education-spending requirements of another initiative, passed in 1988: Proposition 98 .Campaigning for his measure last year, Mr Brown deployed a curious blend of soak-the-rich rhetoric with austere pledges of responsible stewardship.
He acquired some of Brown's admiration for the German "Pre-Raphaelites," the nickname of the austere Nazarenes, who had sought to bring back into German art a pre-Renaissance purity of style and aim.
