The phrase "austere reality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a stark, severe, or unadorned state of existence or situation, often emphasizing a lack of comfort or luxury.
Example: "The documentary portrayed the austere reality of life in the remote village, highlighting the struggles of its inhabitants."
Alternatives: "harsh truth" or "grim reality".
But "Old Cats," written and directed by Sebastián Silva and Pedro Peirano (originally released in Chile in 2010, long before "Amour"), is less concerned with the austere reality of death than with the stress and mess of living.
Children of the boom, who spent their formative years in a period of extraordinary apparent prosperity, may have thought it perfectly normal to have easy credit, plenty of jobs and an abundant supply of financial support from the Bank of Mum and Dad, but they are having rapidly to adjust to a more austere reality.
And while this policy document, the brainchild of left-wing wonks at the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), may seem absurd and unattainable in our bleak and austere reality, in their world of progressive think-tankery, anything is possible.
We do not yet know how it will do so when the austere realities of the bailout package kick in.
Just why the Army should be involved at all with levee systems, navigation locks, rock jetties, concrete revetments, and the austere realities of deltaic geomorphology is a question that attracts no obvious answer.
Described like this, the film may sound austere, but the reality is the opposite – a film whose power derives from its remarkable atmosphere of hushed intensity.
But the whole fiasco is a nice reminder of the fact that while cryptography, like all branches of mathematics, is by nature austere and precise, the reality in which it has to be implemented is messy and complicated.
It is an indictment of capitalism and a practical argument for socialism in the world as it is, in Miliband's characteristic voice: measured, even austere, in confronting uncomfortable realities, yet deeply humane and optimistic.
The budget shows how much trouble the Russian economy is in and how unwilling the government is to face up to reality.It's an austere affair: 700 billion roubles ($17.8 billion) of previous spending plans have been axed.
Her childhood in London's East End might have sounded picturesque, but, as she said, the reality was "tough, cold, damp, and austere".
The result, even in comedy, was memorably austere, combining a wintry poetry with acute concern for social reality.
