Sentence examples for how austere from inspiring English sources

How austere and rigorous it must make you feel.

Only from here can you get a sense of how austere the landscape is.

The grimness was not really a matter of personal preference, no matter how austere Moyes may look.

No matter how severe, how austere, the Arctic may seem in our imaginations, it is almost unbelievably fragile, as are many of the species newly exposed under what is now open water.

The 2002 inflation target had been awaited as an indication of how fiscally austere President Henrique Cardoso, above, intended to be in 2002, the last year of his term.

That Martin was there to arrange the larger ensembles has always been noted what is not noted frequently enough is how brilliant, austere, and original his arrangements were.

Three of these films have been or are about to be remade, although you'll see in the originals how the austere, icy locales are a vital component.

The American author and journalist, Steven Coll, has written how this austere and censorious disciple of the 14th century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah, Abd al-Wahhab, despised "the decorous, arty, tobacco smoking, hashish imbibing, drum pounding Egyptian and Ottoman nobility who travelled across Arabia to pray at Mecca".

Graeme Virtue: He's convinced the US film and TV worlds of his acting chops, but how would the austere German documentarian fare in New Tricks, EastEnders or Cuckoo?

The shock is how this dissonant, austere music, little more than a succession of glancing impulses and thought-spasms, reveals itself live as warm, humane and resonant.

Out on tiny firebases — no matter how remote or austere — Afghan soldiers ran to stand in formation when we arrived, the lieutenant in charge shouting his report: "One officer, one sergeant, 10 soldiers ready for inspection!