The phrase "austere charm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quality or aesthetic that is both simple and appealing, often in a minimalist or unadorned way.
Example: "The cabin had an austere charm, with its bare wooden walls and lack of unnecessary decorations."
Alternatives: "simple elegance" or "minimalist allure".
It can vary in style from austere and acidic--as in many charm-free Italian versions--to unctuous, late harvest dessert wines.
By contrast with his sociable and often indolent friend, whose self-indulgence charmed others into feeling indulged, the austere and harder-working Wordsworth had no such success to compensate for his literary woes.
I found in him a warmth, wit and charm that belie the stereotype of the austere and forbidding contemporary composer.
Beyond the cold looks of its austere yet impressive buildings, the city was exuding a charm that I have since taken as the hallmark of the Eastern Europe spirit.
Camp was an escape route from modernism, a return to the charm and glamour that had been banned by that austere movement.
This is mostly thanks to the women in the movie, who through charm, guile and sheer force of will turn the austere fable of their melancholy paterfamilias into a party.
But "Skin + Bones" stands to attract, if not reconcile, two camps that rarely converge in a gallery: the followers of fashion, who prefer their nests feathered, and the austere draftsmen in Bauhaus glasses, who may privately relish the charms of a scarlet woman such as fashion but balk at entertaining her in polite company.
Some critics thought that his austere portrayals more authentically reflected Eastern European life than Isaac Bashevis Singer's did, but Singer, with a leprechaunish charm that leavened his bleakest stories, appealed more to American audiences.
On the back foot, the delegation was considered slow to respond, while Madrid seized the momentum through the charm of Crown Prince Felipe and its pitch to hold a low-cost Games in austere times.
