Sentence examples for austere school from inspiring English sources

As a teenager he was sent away to an austere school run by the Moravian Brotherhood in the isolated German countryside.

The more-orthodox and austere school flourished in kingdoms to the west of Cambodia and contrasted sharply with the lavish and elitist rituals associated with Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism.

But the art was what came to matter most, and the Vogel collection grew into a guidepost for an often austere school of art that followed Abstract Expressionism's long reign: Minimal Art, which often examined monochromatic surfaces and essential forms.

Groton, that austere school for the gentry, which prepared two Roosevelts for the White House, has long manifested a morbid interest in the Presidency, and its walls are encrusted with autographed letters from the nation's chief executives.

The New Yorker, June 24 , 1933P. 28 Groton, that austere school for the gentry, which prepared two Roosevelts for the White House, has long manifested a morbid interest in the Presidency, and its walls are encrusted with autographed letters from the nation's chief executives.

The house, a 1740 staging post built in the austere Roman school of architecture, in the Val d'Oise region 30km north of Paris, became famous thanks to its previous owner, the late French musician and film score composer Michel Magne, who won an Oscar in 1962 for his music for the Gene Kelly film Gigot.

Riley slips through the cracks of the foster care system and hightails it to a small town outside San Francisco, armed only with her sarcastic attitude and a lead on her origins: a prettily austere high school principal named Opal (Lauren Graham), who may be her birth mother's sister.

But the current funding system is indefensible and will be shown more and more clearly to be so in the coming parliament, where times look to be increasingly austere for schools.

Stone was the son of a schizophrenic New York public-school teacher, educated in austere Catholic boys' schools, and the grimness and violence of his upbringing put their indelible stamp on his vision.

Mira's relationship with her mother was troubled: Ada would disappear for long periods, leaving her daughter in an austere Catholic convent school, before returning, guilt-ridden, to shower her with affection.

His austere gaze was schooled there.