Sentence examples for rather austere from inspiring English sources
An abstract painter, rather solitary, rather austere.
Wasn't the prospect... well, rather austere?
You can imagine why she needed to escape this rather austere world".
She looked so startlingly unlike her predecessor, who had been tall and rather austere.
The recorded ambiance is a bit disembodied; the overall effect, rather austere and deliberate.
It's easy to forget that rock was a rather austere domain in the early 70s.
More and more people now appreciate what verbatim plays, this rather austere-sounding branch of political theatre, can offer.
Someone fascinated by the richness of life but who is personally rather ascetic, embracing an austere aesthetic.
In 1948, however, austerity was rather more austere: there was a fuel shortage, strikes, mass homelessness and even meaner rationing than there had been during the second world war.
Life may be about to get rather more austere for your average Athenian....
"Our first priority is to create an appropriate entrance to the greatest encyclopedic museum in the world, one that is attractive and welcoming rather than austere and forbidding," said Thomas P. Campbell, the Met's director and chief executive.
