Sentence examples for austere tone from inspiring English sources

The Lyric's artistic director Jimmy Fay gives his production an austere tone, with the action unfolding in a contemporary office.

Miss Middleton is eschewing the traditional horse-drawn carriage for her arrival to set a more austere tone, though the couple will still leave in one.

A flowing but austere tone poem in the Ornette Coleman vein, it was originally recorded on his second ECM album, 35 years ago.

Pizzetti also retains the play's austere tone, so appropriate to the church venues that typically serve for productions of the play — and a far cry from the 1964 film "Becket" (based on the play of the same story by Jean Anouilh), which finds Becket (Richard Burton and Henry Peter O'Toolele) carousing during their earlier, friendlier days.

The austere tone is achieved through pigments in a colour scheme of mostly greys, greens, brownish-reds, and blacks.

To all this the austere tones are a foil.

The silvery glint of calculation in Shylock's eye gives way to bewilderment and sorrow; the austere tones of his resonant voice soften into a righteous plea for understanding.

As a little kid in Queens, listening on the radio, I had no idea what a suck-egg mule was — still don't, actually — but I can hear Barber's normally austere tones going colorful on us.

That should come in handy as he tries to steer through a volatile British media landscape and an economic slump that has made every pence worth counting as London builds up to an austerity-era Games that Coe hopes are anything but austere in tone or approach.

Feminize an austere look with makeup.

A half-hour of austere 12-tone choral music is not most people's idea of a good time.