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.
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.
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.
The Empiricist paradigm, after all, has always promoted itself in terms of its very austere view of human knowers: we perceive the world, and learn all we know on the basis of our perceptual experience of it.
The belief that moral statements were subjective displays of emotion – no more objective than hissing or handclapping – underpinned an austere view of philosophy that lasted until the 1970s.
His austere religious views were offended.
