Sentence examples for austere simplicity from inspiring English sources

This austere simplicity began to depress me.

Ornamentation in Kant's house was eschewed in favor of austere simplicity.

In the first half of the 16th century the Venetian glassblowers produced glasses of an austere simplicity.

It shares with some of Malamud's work a certain reserve, an austere simplicity, and an intense engagement with questions of moral decision.

Hazan madre famously revealed the austere simplicity of real Italian cooking to the land of leaden saltimbocca and industrial "parmesan shaken out of a canister.

If the boxy, cedar-sided forms of Jay Chiat and Edwina von Gal's weekend house in eastern Long Island evoke the austere simplicity of an old barn, that's because the house is a barn -- at heart, anyway.

This superposition of introspection and austere secrecy, of simplicity and opacity, is not new.

He originally painted in an Abstract Expressionist style, but, upon moving to New York City in the late 1950s, he began work on a series of innovative paintings marked by an austere and monumental simplicity of design.

"Disgrace," however, was an emotionally austere work of almost abrasive simplicity.

An unusually austere composition, it has a simplicity and openness that enhance its mystery.

Gabriel's structures exhibit a "noble simplicity" in the austere but harmonious arrangement of their masses and their subdued Classical decoration.