The fourth series of Mark Evans's Dickensian parody returns to Radio 4 this evening – and is exactly the kind of radio we need for these austere and chilly times.
"Chimera" has many different stories nestled in its austere, deceptively chilly-seeming frame.
In the desert – as in the equally austere, if chillier, gallery – time seems to slow down.
As I've seen myself, the road that passes by the camp is already lined by chilly, austere, totalitarian-seeming fences, topped with barbed wire and expertly designed to be unscaleable by the camp's residents.
This was different — chilly, regimented, austere.
The camerawork, however, is rather chilly and austere, with an emphasis on straightforward frontal shots.
By contrast, a beet salad with endive and asparagus is chilly and austere, and the three ingredients seem awkwardly matched.
When Tom sits in front of his bed and sings "I wish I were happy," the music is chilly and austere, and the white box surrounding Mr. Appleby seems to offer no comfort at all.
In this chilly space, increasingly austere geometric abstractions – regimented spots, squares and triangles in nocturnal palettes – slowly resolved themselves into the repeating pattern of the grid.
Norn (not, apparently, the result of trying to say "northern" after a few drams) is an austere little restaurant in shades of chilly grey, the only punctuation the open kitchen and a lot of carpet (carpet! In a contemporary restaurant? Whatever next: curtains?).
