Sentence examples for more austere in from inspiring English sources

"Colombians might have become a little more austere in the last couple of years, but the boom was amazing," said Yvonne Meyer, editor in chief of Casaviva, a magazine dedicated to residential design and architecture.

"Bach: Multiplicity," commissioned in 1999 by the city of Weimar, Germany, is more austere in its overall design, and variety comes through the contrast between the groups and the duets.

His pages were not easy to read, but he became, in the words of Stanley Morison, the typographical idol of the man of taste, and his "plain"—though deliberately and artfully contrived designs were an important factor in the decline in importance of the édition de luxe and its replacement by works more austere in feeling, more modern even to today's eyes.

These three four-storey houses (now the Beach Hotel) have double bow fronts, and were considered by Nikolaus Pevsner to be more austere in their detailing than most Brighton houses of their era.

They produce more austere qualities in the cider and less obvious fruit flavors.

There are also more austere utopias, in which everything is odourless and antiseptic, intolerably streamlined and sensible.

The only traffickers in Sinaloa who beat the odds are those who are content to follow a more austere life in the mountains.

For this, capable priests were needed, and, thus, seminaries multiplied to prepare the clergy for a more austere life in the service of the church.

Aid workers accustomed to more austere conditions in their personal lives are more likely to put up with less luxurious work environments, with consequential cost savings for their employers.

WITH the real estate and mortgage industries slumping, housing analysts say that home-improvement projects are become more austere than in recent years -- if, indeed, such projects are happening at all.

September 30 2009 February 15 200909 Leaner and more austere than those in the artist's show at the Whitney in 2003, which included a fantastically voyeuristic dollhouse-size model of the art critic Clement Greenberg's living room, the works here draw their inspiration from archeology.