Sentence examples for bit austere from inspiring English sources

Brutalism might still be a bit austere for many people's taste.

Domaine du Clos Naudin (Philippe Foreau), $30 Vouvray Sec 2008 Spicy with mineral flavors, and energetic if a bit austere.

Warm and generous when you came to know him, he was outwardly formal and even a bit austere, like the Champagne country itself.

Not only are they more plentiful than the wines of northern Piedmont, but they are also, sometimes, more accessible than their northerly counterparts, which can be a bit austere, at least when they are young.

Domaine de la Taille aux Loups (Jacky Blot), $28, ** 1/2 Vouvray Sec Les Caburoches 2008 Richly textured yet chalky, dry and a bit austere with flavors of lemon and honey.

That's the voice that described crawling through a coal mine in northern England and taking a bullet in the throat in Spain: detached, a bit austere, but alert and alive to the world.

Well, Jerry Pinkney's version feels slightly more weighty than Stephen Mitchell's, and a bit more austere.

"I think he felt it was quite a serious album," he says, "and so he went a bit more austere".

The look: a bit postwar austere, East London Hub (in Stoke Newington and Broadway Market) provides the clothes for those who buy their interiors in Labour & Wait.

That's all a bit too austere now we have such a visual culture.' In running Morphoses, he has vowed to disregard the more questionable aspects of Balanchine's rule at City Ballet.

The conversion of China from a form of communism every bit as austere as North Korea's state ideology of juche (self-reliance) to its present economic state of near-capitalism likewise began in 1978 with tentative steps in the field of basic commodities.