Sentence examples for by an austere code from inspiring English sources

This may be the moment when Delon saw the prospect of accessories: he wears trenchcoats and fedoras as if they were religious garments; he stoops to talk as if under torture; but he is the superb figure of loneliness kept from psychopathy by an austere code of honor that links gangster and samurai.

And inflation has been kept in check by an austere interest-rate policy.

To these creditors, many of whom were motivated by an austere Protestantism that emphasised the work ethic, failure to repay debt showed a lack of moral fibre.

He masks the Pharaonic enrichment of his political circle by projecting an austere image of shrewd bluster and manly bravado.

The government has also helped, though most Chileans would not use that word, by presenting an austere budget for 1999.

"We live by an ethical code.

A swaybacked roof side by side with an austere perpendicular brick building: so beautiful.

HSBC executives are by and large an austere, conservative lot, compared with their more expansive counterparts.

An old place, administered by an amiable, austere, bespectacled woman.

"Vollmond," designed by Peter Pabst, takes place in an austere and often shadowy landscape dominated by a giant slab of rock.

"Mitt Romney lives by a different code.