Sentence examples for austere personality from inspiring English sources

Born in Nottingham, Richardson was the son of a local provision merchant, and inherited from his mother a strong, stubborn, somewhat austere personality.

The bent toward self-effacement and self-control can be traced to his mother, Cathryn, a Scottish immigrant with a reserved, austere personality, who died in 1993.

True or false Karamanlis senior, a schoolmaster's son from northern Greece who became a towering figure of modern Greek history, was an austere personality who was impatient with his compatriots' failings.

Never a member of the PDP, he is an austere personality known for his hostility to corruption, and is therefore hostile to conventional powerbroker interests.

Martin Luther's austere, reforming personality would not allow for Christ's Jewish blood because Jews fed off satanic excrement.

Yet Brandeis never really comes to life in these pages, mostly because he seems to have been an austere and distant personality.

There was no personality in the ugly, austere furniture; against this neutral backdrop, even a piece of cloth would have been revealing.

Once you understand yourself, you will see that you are austere and don't need worldly embellishments to enhance your personality.

The arrangement of the dogs creates an austere setting for Mr. Rawls, who displays different shades of his personality within a solipsistic existence.

The quarrel between the two brothers has Biblical overtones, yet Levy avoids cliché by sending the polarities spinning: he and his co-writer, Holger Franke, turn the Communist Jaecki into a "capitalist" personality, all appetite and greed, and they give the capitalist Samuel an austere and forbidding "Communist" temperament.

Her personality and "high spirits" frequently created controversies at the Romanian court, and she disliked the austere atmosphere of her household.