Sentence examples for quite austere from inspiring English sources

"Most sweetshops were quite austere, and mostly run by grumpy old men," says Mark.

"Often they would be deprived of reading material and light in quite austere conditions".

The public image of Miuccia Prada is of someone quite austere and cold.

"People have this image of [it] being quite austere with white and grey walls.

The experience was valuable and brief, and the living conditions quite austere.

If she's not quite as austere as some interviews suggest, it's still apparent that you're in the company of a woman who seldom regards meeting the press as the highlight of her day.

Some commentators have made much of the secrecy shrouding the accounts of Ralph Nader's organizations, of the revelation that speaking fees and stock market investments have made him a multimillionaire, and of hints that his lifestyle might not be quite as austere as it seems.

For a book about a pansexual race of beings who take monthly government-sanctioned holidays to sate their lust, "The Left Hand of Darkness" is quite restrained, even austere.

By Ligaya Mishan July 21, 2009 For a book about a pansexual race of beings who take monthly government-sanctioned holidays to sate their lust, "The Left Hand of Darkness" is quite restrained, even austere.

Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said: "Mr Osborne has perhaps not been quite such an austere Chancellor as either his own rhetoric or that of his critics might suggest.

Zia crushed all opposition and introduced into the country's public life, especially into the military, a quite new element of austere and evangelical piety.