Sentence examples for pretty austere from inspiring English sources

For a designer who is known for his elaborate shows, this is pretty austere.

Our production, which Jonathan Kent directed, first for the Almeida, then the West End and Broadway, was pretty austere.

Things have been pretty austere for the old, the weedy, the homeless, the poor and the mentally ill for some time now.

Never part of the glamorous 90s New Labour social scene, he admits that even his own pretty austere idea of a work-life balance has been out the window ever since the Copenhagen summit in 2008.

That, it has to be said, strikes me as being about as teasingly unreliable a declaration ("blessed"? "redeemed"? "everything"? The redemption in The Sea is pretty austere) as any of those made by any of his narrators, for whom unreliability comes as naturally and easily as exhalation.

But you are in headquarters, in a pretty austere environment.

He did acknowledge, however, that Reserve and Guard troops were living "in some pretty spartan, austere conditions".

So, considering Easter is supposed to be a time of excess after your successful observance of Lenten restraint, things are about to get pretty bloody austere if you're old, disabled, poor or out of work.

Tall, aristocratic, pretty when young, austere in age, Givenchy has always presented a controlled, distant face to the world.

But there's a reason that this speech was austere, not pretty.

She grew up in a gray shingled ranch house near Long Island Sound that looks pretty raffish amid the austere white Colonials and the tall, picket-fenced Victorians.