Sentence examples for austere norm from inspiring English sources

He points to Census statistics that show a slight decline in the size of homes built over the past two years and to a much larger drop in the square footage of those that have just started construction, and suggests that the market may be headed toward a more austere norm.

It begins at the austere norm-based explanation of law but defends an even more inclusive conception.

As for ordinary folk, both the iconic phlegmatism of the snoek era and the famous stand-offs of the 1970s are exaggerations of the humdrum norm: most Britons didn't march in the 1930s or riot in the 1980s; in the austere 1940s, many, eventually, dabbled in the black market.

"Really austere.

These are austere times.

Austere, yes.

It's very austere".

Right now, they are austere.

They are austere & not artistic.

Austere his work is not.

— Eric Asimov The Huffington Post: Austere?