Sentence examples for austere engagement from inspiring English sources

A last full-length novel, L'airone (The Heron, 1968), opening out the Ferrarese prospect to embrace the surrounding terrain of the Po delta, seems gloomier in its austere engagement with contemporary existence than the more poetic embrace of prewar Ferrara made by its predecessors.

The novelist Tim Parks proposed that e-books offered "a more austere, direct engagement" with words.

It shares with some of Malamud's work a certain reserve, an austere simplicity, and an intense engagement with questions of moral decision.

An enriched engagement history, even within an otherwise austere institutional setting, significantly enhanced both joint attention and cooperation in the chimpanzee infants.

Slight, somewhat austere in appearance, afflicted by a life-long tremor, he was referred to by his future wife, when announcing their engagement, as "a penniless Jew".

"Really austere.

Austere, yes.

These are austere times.

It's very austere".

Right now, they are austere.

Engagement works.