Sentence examples for functional and austere from inspiring English sources
The orchestrations tend towards the functional and austere.
ashtanga.org Swiss born Usha Devi is a strict adherent of BKS Iyengar and his famously precise but therapeutic style, and the ashram in which she teaches, on the banks of the Ganges just outside Rishikesh, is as functional and austere as her instruction is straight from the source.
Henry Hope Reed, an architecture critic and historian whose ardent opposition to modernism was purveyed in books, walking tours of New York City and a host of curmudgeonly barbs directed at advocates of the austere, the functional and unornamented in public buildings and spaces, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan.
His work, like him, had become more pure and austere.
("In Masks Outrageous and Austere" popped up just last year).
The performance was slow and austere yet playful.
It could be cold and austere.
It's grand, ornate and austere.
Both works are difficult, complex and austere.
On tenor and soprano, she's omnivorous and pointed, slouching and precise, humorous and austere.
They are simultaneously radical and classic, sensual and austere, immediately appealing and yet infinitely complicated.
