Sentence examples for austere winter from inspiring English sources

AFTER an economically austere winter, spring is a good time for a gastronomic splurge into the countryside.

The other walls display paintings, some 15 feet high, like the austere winter portrait of his and Elena's daughter, Ona, and grandson, Will, on ice skates in Maine, circa 1980.

Let's hope Wednesday isn't the beginning of a long, gray, austere summer for England.

It would be ridiculous to imagine that we could ever return to the austere 1940s.

He shows in Paris, not London, but the influence of his austere 1980s-style sportswear is everywhere.

(The vertically divided images recall Matisse's austere 1914 "Window at Collioure" — and make you glad he left it unpopulated).

Their first vintage of Rathfinny, a fine, austere 2014 blanc de blancs Brut, was just released this year.

Some years ago she chose the headquarters of the French Communist party, an austere 1970s building designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

This is staycation time: what the government in the austere 1940s persuaded us to call "holidays at home".

But its austere 1940s chic is what captivated me and why I choose the more graphic beaded sample for the Big Five, largely to make a point.

"I think it will be a very hard sell," said David Kynaston, author of a recent social history of Britain in the austere 1940s.