"There are no signs of opulence or ego at the company's austere headquarters," wrote The Economist in December last year (see article).
The new app also has descriptions of every variety — the Do-si-dos peanut butter sandwiches, the caramel Samoas, the Thank U Berry Munch — darling names that are undercut by austere instructions, written in the voice of a precocious scout: "We know we're cute, but selling cookies is real.
While writing an austere dissertation on a neglected treatise by Aristotle, she began a second book, about the urge to deny one's human needs.
"Their perversity was carefully concealed beneath Sartre's meek and mild exterior and the Beaver's serious and austere appearance," she wrote in "A Disgraceful Affair".
Now, as a film critic, I find writing about stately, austere films difficult.
He adds: "As a film critic, I find writing about stately, austere films difficult….
By the time he married young Claire Douglas a couple of years later, he was leading an austere existence that revolved around writing, meditation and yoga — a life, in Mr. Slawenski's words, "void of the phoniness and materialism" that Salinger had "repudiated in his writings".
Then he remembered the plot of Bebe's last novel, and imagined his son writing on a computer, in an austere room at a Midwestern university.
He followed the same schedule for decades: up at 8am, writing from 9am until noon, then an austere meal.
The austere New York Times wrote that "cleanliness is an unknown quality to these people.
