Sentence examples for austere religious from inspiring English sources

His austere religious views were offended.

The overall setting of the film, in an austere religious order where silence was the rule, had the same effect.

Like Ms. Scott, this character was raised as "half-Mennonite" (in reference to the austere religious sect that people tend to confuse with the Amish) in Kansas.

Like some austere religious faith, the game determines what you wear, whom you associate with, what anthems you sing and what shrine of transcendent truth you worship at.

And Mormons now make up almost 3% of Congress, even though they are less than 2% of the population.For this, Mormons may have their austere religious practice to thank.

With the help of Henning Kristiansen's atmospheric cinematography, in a range of muted primary colours, Axel captures the bleak Jutland peninsula of the 1870s, where live two unmarried sisters (Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel), daughters of the former pastor, and founder of an austere religious sect, who devote themselves to keeping alive his memory and his teachings in the tiny remote community.

It's also much influenced by the austere, deeply religious movies of Denmark's greatest director, Carl Dreyer, whose Gertrud von Trier helped restore, and the mystical films of Andrei Tarkovsky, who made his final film in Swedish exile and to whose memory Antichrist is dedicated.

In distinct contrast to the rather austere benches of other religious communities, the Oneida's benches had backs, molded seats and comfortable armrests.

Deeply religious and austere, Ferdinand II was blamed for his acquiescence to the Holy Office's treatment of his teacher and protégé Galileo (1633); but he continued to take an interest in science, encouraging his brother Leopoldo, the future cardinal, in the foundation of the Accademia del Cimento in Florence (1657) and offering hospitality to scientists of all nations.

He's religious, in an austere way.

EVEN Girolamo Savonarola, the austere 15th-century monk and religious reformer, must have enjoyed certain amenities here in the Dominican monastery that has become the San Marco Museum.