Sentence examples for austere but from inspiring English sources

It is austere, but eye-catching.

Conditions here were austere, but improving daily.

He was an austere but commanding presence in their lives.

But later, he perfected an austere but demanding minimalism.

You couldn't say austere, but you could almost say low-key.

One could choose between an undemanding low culture and an austere but isolated high culture.

The current show is visually more austere but feels even more personal.

Jalalabad's public hospital is in an austere but orderly compound protected by guards with machine guns.

A hazy sky lights up this austere but richly worked view.

Isolation makes them more stark and austere, but also more complex.

All this makes Ilo Veyou sound terribly austere, but really it's not.