The festival, which this year has high artistic pretensions thanks to the austere sensibilities of new artistic director Thierry Frémaux, should have set critics' tongues wagging about the renaissance of Japanese art cinema, the recherché mise en scène of the new Iranian films and whether that old gunslinger of the avant garde, Jean-Luc Godard, still has what it takes.
Mr Todd is a madman, yet perhaps in his unquenchable devotion to Dickens he is more perceptive than those who, adopting an austere adult sensibility, grow out of him.
The flame was extinguished three times as protesters and human rights activists took to the streets, cutting short the ceremony and offending more austere Chinese sensibilities.
There's a light, sophisticated sensibility behind his austere, puzzled-together images of Dutch horizons and seascapes.
A movie about a playboy king and his cloak-and-dagger court, set in a time of dissipation and spectacle, requires more austere staging, lest the whole flamboyant sensibility be ladled on uncritically -- and too thick.
And then, just two years later, a nearly unrecognizable Bowie reemerged as Ziggy Stardust, perennial globetrotting star, an austere combination of Lou Reed's pop sensibilities and the feminine mystery of Lauren Bacall.
The Portland Building was the epitome of postmodernist architecture that, with its colourful structure and facades decorated with a stylized garland, defied the austere static steel and glass box of the Modernist sensibilities.
Adapted from an austere 19th-century courthouse into a hostel-style accommodation with punk sensibility, Clink78 offers a solid value for travelers on a shoestring budget who still like a bit of style.
From the early austere principle that form should strictly follow function, there is a growing sensibility that aesthetics affect the physical and emotional health of those who use a building or structure.
There was something oppressively austere about him, those colleagues thought, something they used to call his "GDR sensibility".
