The phrase "austere sense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling or perception that is stark, severe, or simple in nature, often lacking in embellishment or luxury.
Example: "The austere sense of the room was enhanced by the minimalistic furniture and muted color palette."
Alternatives: "stern feeling" or "severe perception".
"I see him as having been a figure who was a bridge from the breakout '60s generation of minimalists and conceptualists, who took art away from a rather austere sense of itself and made it into something that could touch on almost every aspect of experience".
From the Stoics and Virgil he inherited an austere sense of duty, from Plato and the Neoplatonists a contempt for the illusions of appetite, and from the Pauline and patristic interpretation of Christianity a sense of the conflict between Light and Darkness that reflects Zoroastrian and Manichaean doctrines emanating from Iran.
If 'Here There and Everywhere' sounds like the arrival of spring, and 'Good Day Sunshine' and 'Got To Get You Into My Life' ooze all the sun-baked bliss of summer, then 'For No One' and 'Eleanor Rigby' are set somewhere between autumn and winter, both founded on an austere sense of lost hopes and creeping dread.
He seeks an account which is naturalistic in his austere sense, and thus starts with the idea that we know about the world only from impacts of various forms of energy on our sensory nerves (see 2.3, above).
But powerful though the association of objecthood and substantiality would seem to be, it provides sponsors of the PCO with no compelling reason to call into question the austere sense of object within a purely formal discourse.
Understood in this austere sense, i.e. in terms of the mind's ability to recognize logical necessity, reason is not merely one instrument among many; instead, it becomes the means whereby the human soul comes into contact with truths that are devoid of the mutability afflicting the objects of the senses.
It was a place where every politician had cut his cloth to suit the fashion of the times, cut it in the US style, so that we dressed ourselves no longer with an austere yet fair sense of who we could be as a nation, but with a belligerent certainty about who we are not.
Last year, "Atlas Eclipticalis" projected a sense of austere control as well as improvisatory richness.
Inside our rooms the low, comfortable beds, the high ceilings, white walls, dark paneling and private bathroom gave a pleasing sense of austere luxury.
I don't experience it as being austere in any negative sense, but you have to be a bit like a soldier with a barracks life, or whatever you want to call it.
Only from here can you get a sense of how austere the landscape is.
