Sentence examples for be austere for from inspiring English sources
But when all you have experienced is the eternal chill of economic winter, I wonder if you can resist a bitter smile when someone such as George Osborne tells the country that we will have to be "austere" for another six years or so.
Mr. Bruno said that spending by the Senate had been austere for years and then went to meet with the Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, who later sang "God Bless America," in the Senate chamber.
THESE are austere times for government in America, with budgets shrinking for everything from the army to the National Zoo.
The overall effect is austere — appropriate for displaying art, perhaps, but not especially welcoming for living purposes, particularly in the wintertime, Ms. Genovesi said.
Abstract monuments - Lutyens's Cenotaph, the minimalist Vietnam Wall in Washington, with its endless roll of names - are austere enough for war.
"These are austere times for us all," he said.
"It is designed to break the idea that the bank is austere and closed for the young," explains BNP Paribas.
Upstairs, the store is austere, pleasant, the tables of iPads untouched like plates waiting for food.
Right now, they are austere.
