Sentence examples for austere than from inspiring English sources

You can't get more austere than that.

T: You're looking much less austere than usual, O'Brien.

Prouvé's work was always more austere than his father's, and rapidly became wholly utilitarian.

Madrid, for example, has been even more austere than the central government wished.

"We're being more austere than we need to be," he said.

It seems less austere than in 2009, more of a party mood.

Influenced by Impressionism, Chase presents a much softer and less austere image than that of Mrs. Manice.

Still, the work was delicate and almost Continental, more austere, perhaps, than the guy who made it, but about as coy.

But Ferdia, saddled with boy-band good looks and a less austere existence than his friends, struggles to achieve the gritty authenticity Matt comes by so naturally.

The tone was often startlingly austere rather than grandiloquent, while the BBCPO's playing was lean and supple, never sliding towards high Romantic opulence.

Lavish, no; but everything was thoroughly clean and unquestionably authentic: as I'd learned at Oslo's historical museums, most rural Norwegians, until very recent times, had lived in far more austere circumstances than these.