In part, that was to be more entertaining, Ms. McGregor said, but a larger reason was the austere limit of 140 characters per message imposed by Twitter, which turns tweets into a literary form akin to haiku.
But it locks in across-the-board cuts that will usher in the most austere spending limits in decades.
But behind the scenes, the group has formed a partnership with business lobbyists to tame the activists who have pushed Republican leaders in Congress to adopt some of the most austere spending limits in decades.
Sen. McConnell explained his action by saying, "We need to indicate we're going to keep our word around here," implying that Republican support for the Senate version of the THUD bill would violate the party's commitment to more austere spending limits.
He said that "Long Island anglers have survived austere and sometimes sudden limits on season, size and catch while its nearest neighbors are bound by less onerous rules".
Brazil's Congress also recently passed important legislation, the Fiscal Responsibility Law, which establishes austere spending and indebtedness limits for the local, state and federal governments.
But austerity seems much less austere if you are old.
Hollande's second way of strengthening French influence has been to retain the austere fiscal targets that he inherited, notably by limiting the budget deficit to 3 percent of G.D.P. in 2013.
But the persevering Mr. Jasperse has risen to the top of his field by choreographing works that test the limits of both brain and body, and live inside austere yet arresting theatrical landscapes.
Take Daniel Libeskind, for example, a Polish-Jewish architect known for his sharp, austere amalgamations of steel, glass and polygonal shapes pushed to their structural limits.
