The phrase "austere study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a study or workspace that is simple, unadorned, and lacking in comfort or luxury.
Example: "The professor preferred an austere study, filled only with books and a sturdy desk, to foster concentration and focus."
Alternatives: "spartan study" or "bare study".
The seller of the austere study of a repentant Peter was a Miami developer, Joel Friedland.
He's keen to get me out of the sultan's salon and into his far more austere study, where a modern sculpture of a deliberately empty-headed Lenin provides an unwitting reminder of Lévy's own relationship to Pascal.
The vintage piece mid-1800ss), sewn in a geometric pattern from an array of brightly colored fabric scraps, appears a bit cluttered next to its complement, an understated, almost austere study in neutral tones of butter-yellow and gold designed by the Bridgeport artisan Denyse Schmidt.
The austere study of a repentant Peter, depicted as an old man with wrinkled hands and face kneeling on a stone floor with his keys beside him, was bought in December 1988 at the London gallery of Thomas Agnew & Son by Joel Friedland, a Miami real-estate developer.
And his austere character study of the murdered man, who worked without complaint in indentured servitude on a chicken farm, reminds us of how sensitive he has always been to people so ordinary that they seem to disappear.
Four years ago, director Josh Appignanesi released his debut feature, Song of Songs, an austere, fiercely disquieting study of transgression, identity and faith in the Orthodox Jewish community of north London.
While most pianists embrace a dry, reclusive and austere lifestyle of study, practice, and self-discipline, Canadian-born Chilly Gonzales has chosen a more extravagant and joyful path to achieve greatness.
This is much more austere: a semi-autobiographical study of the way families were uprooted from their homes in the cities and forcibly relocated to the countryside in the 1960s.
About 1900 the search for a more indigenous German classicism encouraged Alfred Messel in Berlin to study the austere Neoclassicism of Gentz and Gilly of a century earlier, hence the Greek Revival flavour of Messel's offices for the AEG (formerly the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft) and his National Bank, both built in Berlin in 1905 07.
The first shot in "The Merry Gentleman," an austere, nearly pitch-perfect character study of two mismatched yet ideally matched souls, is of its director, the actor Michael Keaton, sitting on a park bench.
