Sentence examples for austere quality from inspiring English sources

Next match: Georgia, Friday 2 October (Pool C) ▲ 3 In the absence of any genuine flair they still underwhelm some ardent supporters but there is an austere quality to France.

Her writing has a austere quality to it, a formal restraint that, given the subject, makes one think of dressage, of riding crops, leather boots, of subtle motions in the saddle.

There was also an attractively austere quality about it, as if the musicians were determined to pursue melodic investigations without big crescendos or party-pieces – rather as the Lennie Tristano cool school had done four decades before.

There always has been an austere quality about Evan Lysacek.

Another regular collaborator, John Barham, provided orchestral arrangements as before, and noted an "austere quality" in some of Harrison's new songs.

Whereas Harrison's Krishna devotionals on All Things Must Pass had been uplifting celebrations of faith, his latest compositions betrayed a more austere quality, partly as a result of the Bangladesh experience.

They produce more austere qualities in the cider and less obvious fruit flavors.

At times the austere modal quality of the harmony harks back to Renaissance music; that is, until the performers, like country fiddlers, bend the melodic lines with blue notes.

In the pantheon of great reggae producers, Keith Hudson is frequently overlooked next to King Tubby and Lee Perry - yet no other dub album can rival Pick-a-Dub's austere sonic qualities.

The sweetly harmonious voices of the choir undercut the austere setting with a quality of humanity, as dancers — first two women and later three men — wrestle with outside forces.

Yet the same austere indeterminacy, the same allegorical quality that haunted Kitamura's earlier fiction is also at work here.