They belted out his lyrics, in which he begs to be taken home to where he belongs in West Virginia, as austere scenes of the North Korean capital, devoid of any people, rolled by on the karaoke screen.
In All Or Nothing (2002), as a woman electrically crackling with sorrow and resentment, she had an austere final-act scene with Timothy Spall, guaranteed to leave viewers as ashen-faced and trembling as her character.
As "Just Another Love Story" zigzags between austere realism (the scenes of Jonas and his family) and surreal gore, you have the not unpleasant sense of being taken for a ride.
David Korins's scenery — suitably raw and austere in the prison scenes, warm in the nursery — and David C. Woolard's costume design supported Mr. Newbury's conception well.
The result includes a ballet divertissement, two bustling outdoor scenes, a tense gambling episode and a church scene with austere organ music and offstage angelic choirs.
Hogg establishes the scene with austere, fixed-position camera setups and a coolly reserved "middle distance" sound design for dialogue, a procedural self-deprecation that allows us to observe and overhear events at one remove.
She is not the only person given to monologues better suited to the creaky exposition scenes of an austere Hammer Studios horror film of the 1950's and 60's; "The Klumps" screeches to a halt a number of times as we get lengthy scientific explanations, leaving skid marks and unintended comedy.
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With improvements in ultrasound technology, machines are becoming ultra-portable allowing for flexible point-of-care examinations, including at the scene of injury, in austere environments and during transport.
The public trickles in and out, murmuring at the grandeur, or perhaps realizing that this austere sanctuary once provided the setting for the madcap wedding scene from "Arthur," the Dudley Moore comedy.
