Sentence examples for certain austerity from inspiring English sources

When he stands up on Wednesday, there will be many who see in him a certain austerity of the soul.

"The One Hundreds" has a certain austerity — all that counting, the cool concern with process and geometry.

It's fortunate that Mr. Zobel consistently hits the mark, because the surroundings impose a certain austerity on the dining experience.

Strongly marked by a style from Neoclassicism to Neo-Gothic, the public buildings he created are imbued with a certain austerity and gravitas.

(Burke) Molissa Fenley (Monday) Ms. Fenley's clean, contemplative dances — with their gentle skewing of classical ballet lines — share a certain austerity with the sanctuary of Judson Church, making this an apt location for her concert of two new works.

A certain austerity in his attitude to life, together with a competitive spirit and intellectual rigour, marked him as a young man likely to go far in the foreign service, which he entered in 1947.

You noted that Mr. Bradley has displayed "a certain emotional austerity" in his connection with voters.

As it builds its reverberating harmonies, Sigur Ros maintains a certain minimalistic austerity, a remoteness that comes across as secular reverence.

But the voters picked up on Mr. Bradley's lack of energy and on a certain emotional austerity in his connection with them.

She also brought a certain interpretive austerity that was arguably well suited to these selections but was bewildering when applied to her closing piece, Godowsky's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Johann Strauss's "Fledermaus".

The building is an old monastery and retains a certain cool austerity, but any ghostly sense of past privations is immediately dispelled by the spectacular site and its gorgeous gardens, with jungles of bougainvillea and delirious views of the Gulf of Tigullio.