Sentence examples for austere principles from inspiring English sources

Van Doesburg, who shared Mondrian's austere principles, launched the group's periodical, De Stijl (1917 32), which set forth the theories of its members.

As part of what Rousseau called his "reform," or improvement of his own character, he began to look back at some of the austere principles that he had learned as a child in the Calvinist republic of Geneva.

Sightseeing While gold Rolexes and diamond-encrusted Piaget wristwatches seem unlikely souvenirs from a city deeply associated with the austere principles of the reformer John Calvin, the reverse is true.

"In Your Hands" is the 10th film to be made following the austere principles of the Dogma movement, whose purifying rules insist on the use of natural light and the absence of background music, among many other restrictions.

After living with a group of Kenyan runners during his student days – and observing their near monastic lifestyle of ugali (maize porridge), running and religious TV – Farah has adopted these austere principles.

"I take the view that we cannot know ourselves fully until we fully understand our capabilities for evil and good," explains the Rev Peter Owen Jones, who recently appeared in a BBC2 series depicting his attempts to live according to the austere principles of St Francis of Assisi.

From the early austere principle that form should strictly follow function, there is a growing sensibility that aesthetics affect the physical and emotional health of those who use a building or structure.

Russell infamously claimed that the difference between Leibniz's public and private writings is so significant that they effectively comprise two distinct philosophies: a theologically imbued fantasy designed to please royalty, and his true philosophy, derived from austere logical principles, that he revealed to a select few of his correspondents (Russell 1945).

He read Tolstoy's diary, in which the writer created a simplified narrative about his sufferings at home and chastised Sophia for refusing to abide by his austere Christian principles.

Its exploitation of found objects and images, recognizable materials, homey processes and familiar themes repeatedly expanded on, and domesticated, Marcel Duchamp's austere modernist principle of the ready-made.

The children of Thatcher, they moved to an area seemingly built on the principles of austere 1980s Conservatism: rows of indistinguishable houses on indistinguishable roads, the imported kiwis and pineapples available in each mammoth Tesco providing the closest thing to esotericism you could reach without taking the overpriced train to King's Cross.