Sentence examples for austere that from inspiring English sources

The beauty of the landscape and the monk's sweetness, humility and good humor evoke a plane of existence, at once elevated and austere, that is humbling to contemplate.

He wrote very few female characters, and there is a vision of masculinity — violent, fearless, austere — that exists in his work as a counterpoint to its obsessive bookishness, and neither ideal has much room for the presence of women, writers or otherwise.

The Pawar effort was so austere that he stored signs and literature at Timber Lanes, an eight-lane bowling alley that seems like an Eisenhower-era relic.

Boys Noize — so austere that their video display used only red, black and white — dispensed buzzing, distorted riffs over dry drumbeats, as the chords that topped them jabbed with happy aggression.

2 p.m. 6) PRISON BREAK The Old Melbourne Gaol (the Australian spelling for jail) was built in the 19th century out of volcanic rock and is so austere that it could have come out of a Charles Dickens novel.

The House, where Republicans control 101 of 150 seats, passed a two-year budget that is widely considered to be so austere that the chamber's head budget writer, Representative Jim Pitts, Republican of Waxahachie, somberly promised the body that he would do everything he could "to make the bill better" as it moved forward to the Senate.

You can't get more austere than that.

The flip side of the coin is that the austere music that accompanies all this darkness is often very beautiful.

One classical compatibilist strategy that most contemporary theorists seem to have overlooked is an austere one that attempts to make do with as little as possible beyond more primitive features of agency itself.

Bear in mind that House Republicans voted en masse earlier this year for a supposedly austere budget that would still require trillions of dollars in additional borrowing.

They note, rightly, that the governor's call for a 5percentt spending increase was hardly austere, and that independent fiscal monitors applauded his restraint.