Sentence examples for austere view from inspiring English sources

DURING last year's mayoral campaign Annise Parker, then Houston's controller, offered an austere view of the city's finances.

How the public, which usually flocks to Adams shows, will react to Mr. Szarkowski's more austere view of the artist "is the $64,000 question," said Mr. Turnage.

Three Metaphysics of Time The first view, represented on the left, is the ontologically austere view called presentism, the view that only the present exists.

As we will see al-Kindi held an austere view on the question of attributes, on the basis that predication invariably implies multiplicity, whereas God is unrestrictedly one.

There is another, less permissive position constructed along similar lines, but based on a more austere view of what counts as a moral disaster that might justify resort to terrorism.

See Frege 1914 for a defense of the austere view that, in mathematics at least, only stipulative definitions should be countenanced.[1] Descriptive definitions, like stipulative ones, spell out meaning, but they also aim to be adequate to existing usage.

Shammai is cited in the Talmud and its commentaries in such a way as to emphasize his austere views.

Her austere views of a men's shelter seen from her New York window evoke the abbreviated Precisionism of George Ault, just as the pale reflected sunburst of "Winter Sunset, Blair Pond," echoes Arthur Dove's visionary moons.

His austere, fundamentalist view of Islam is also that of the kingdom's rulers, as is his determination to spread the faith.

Moreover, it was unclear to many of Newton's mechanist readers how his forces fit into their rather austere ontological view that material bodies consist solely of properties such as size, shape, mobility and solidity.

Their semantics remains a contested subject in the philosophy of language, with those who believe a descriptive element belongs in their meaning (whether at the level of intension or at the level of character) ranged against supporters of the more austere Millian view.