Sentence examples for austere path from inspiring English sources

It's a nice travelogue that occasionally abandons Pirsig's austere path.

By demanding a big cut in Greece's debt and promising a public-spending spree, Mr Tsipras has thrown down the greatest challenge so far to Europe's single currency—and thus to Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, who has set the austere path for the continent.The stakes are high.

In the Christian world, this was the middle of Lent, the season of self-discipline and self-deprivation, but here I was in the middle of a celibate monastic community which had voluntarily chosen to live the austere ascetic path in small rock-cut cells, and yet was making a deliberate decision to cover the walls of its religious buildings with images of attractively voluptuous women.

Amid the 178 acres of serene, thick woods are winding paths and an austere shrine to the Emperor Meiji (1868-1912), whose modernizing reign coincided with the end of Japan's long isolation.

Marriage, love, and intimacy only take you so far; at the end of that path, you fall back on the austere, solitary dignity of the inner life.

So the base of the collection was "prettiness," not such an easy path now that fashion has moved on from girlish froth to austere minimalism.

While most pianists embrace a dry, reclusive and austere lifestyle of study, practice, and self-discipline, Canadian-born Chilly Gonzales has chosen a more extravagant and joyful path to achieve greatness.

There, in the austere beauty of the desert outside Santa Fe, he sought out a spiritual healer who, he says, led him on a path toward inner peace.

"Really austere.

Austere, yes.

These are austere times.