Sentence examples for austere upbringing from inspiring English sources

Modest Mouse was the brainchild of singer, songwriter, and guitarist Brock, whose austere upbringing brought a pronounced fatalism to his lyrics.

Flashbacks to his loving if austere upbringing have a richness, as when he imbibes the region's history through tales of shipwrecked cargos, of opium from British India, or wine from Oporto and Madeira.

The daughter of a Portuguese native who emigrated to the United States when she was young, Mazza tells Creators that her mother's upbringing was very austere.

Only in his bedroom did the style revert to something more monastic in nature, with white walls and a narrow metal bed, more in line with his austere Protestant upbringing.

Keable's was an austere, Anglican upbringing, the effect of which, his biographer Hugh Cecil has suggested, was to leave the young man industrious, somewhat preacherly in his writing style, and with a devoutness not particularly tied to the specific faith in which he'd been raised.

From childhood an Indian is brought up on the notion that austerity and a contented life is good.Mr Narayan's own upbringing was not austere.

Stone was the son of a schizophrenic New York public-school teacher, educated in austere Catholic boys' schools, and the grimness and violence of his upbringing put their indelible stamp on his vision.

Her expression is austere.

Normal upbringing.

Austere, yes.

"Really austere.