Even what loyalists would say are strengths – its simplicity, its traditionalism – can seem overly austere in an age of fitness classes, extreme races and iPhone games.
All the accessories — doorknobs, dining trays, bathroom fittings and so on — are styled in what Newson calls "the old airline aesthetic" of the 1960s (which some aviation blogs have slammed as overly austere).
With much of the underground currently trading in rougher, richer sounds, the minimalist purity of the artists on Richie Hawtin's label M-nus might be overly austere for some.
His staging has been criticised as overly austere, so it seems ironic that some of his quirkier glosses – Scarpia cavorting with prostitutes in the second act – come over as cluttered on DVD.
There are lingering feelings among some board members, especially in the developing world, that the fund joined with the United States and other wealthy countries in demanding overly austere budget cuts and other fiscal tightenings for the countries that were bailed out in the previous decade.
