Delicate, minerally rieslings from the Mosel in Germany differ strikingly from the more robust rieslings from the Rheingau and the steely, austere ones from Alsace.
Set in a recognizably austere environment from which one can imagine its inhabitants surveying the world-as-abattoir from a cool remove, Ms. Findlay's visual updating has the effect of letting the play's mixture of the personal and the political fall where it may.
"Some said he was austere, but from what I have discovered he liked a good party and threw great ones.
Reading the brief, austere sentences from an authoritative stranger gave me a view of myself through the law's eyes, as a nameless citizen.
A mischievously austere painting, from 1997, shows a blue expanse interrupted by seagulls, nominally and stickily rendered, as if piped on with black icing.
Blunt, austere percussion — from a booming Japanese taiko drum to the metallic scrape of a knife being sharpened — is layered with neo-medieval wind consorts, modernist dissonances, Minimalist vibraphone patterns and isolated electronics.
Because the foods of a few countries, but not fruits, are allowed, you may not want to be so austere: salmon from Ireland, for instance, poses no problem; hard cheeses, provided they contain no meat, are usually acceptable.
She died, of tuberculosis, less than three years later, earning a frighteningly austere tribute from Beckett to McGreevy: "It appears that she and her fiancé had lately been indulging in regular paroxysms of plans of what they would do when they were married.
In spite of such severe restrictions, the great 17th-century French dramatists Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, confining the crises of their characters' lives to a single setting and a brief span of hours, produced a unique form of tragedy that derives its austere power from its singleness of concentration.
Modeled after the images of their designers and popping up in cities around the world, recent entries include a Hotel Missoni in Edinburgh, where the bedspreads are printed with vivid stripes, and a much-fussed-over Armani Hotel that opened this winter in Milan, in a modern glass-walled structure erected atop an austere building from the 1930s.
