Sentence examples for remarkable austerity from inspiring English sources

The film has a remarkable austerity and starkness; watching it is like being waylaid by the Ancient Mariner, who grips you with a strange and terrible message in his tale.

Here's the key point: Europe as a whole is pursuing a remarkable degree of fiscal austerity that is totally inappropriate in a still-depressed economy.

Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy said Friday that Greece's government had made a "remarkable effort" to reach new austerity agreements with lenders to avoid a calamitous default, and that he did not believe that Greece would withdraw from the 17-nation group of European countries that use the euro currency, as some economists have forecast.

Yet there is still a remarkable amount of sympathy for the austerity measures.

And it is indeed a remarkable thing: despite overwhelming evidence that austerity doesn't work as advertised, there has been essentially no relaxation of the orthodoxy, and no admission of error.

Should you wish to reserve all 11 villas, ensuring privacy rather than paparazzi, the tiny granitic speck washed by the emerald shallows of the Indian Ocean will cost £43,000 – a remarkable flourish to what had been dubbed the austerity wedding.

(Or let me put that in Parliamentary style: does the right honorable gentleman not realize that it's the austerity, stupid?) Oh, and via Mark Thoma, Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert make a remarkable observation: US austerity — which mainly takes the form of layoffs at the state and local level — is largely concentrated in states where Republicans took control in 2010, plus Texas.

It's remarkable they went all the way to the referendum opposing austerity and then fall on their knees.

MOSCOW — Early results in Estonia's parliamentary election on Sunday showed the ruling coalition headed for a victory, in a remarkable show of support for a government that has imposed harsh austerity measures to lift the country out of recession.

Government savings from benefit cuts are being offset by the planned increase in the personal tax allowance in 2013-14 - a "remarkable" £9bn tax cut that in effect neutralises the so-called austerity programme, argues the IFS.

Asked if there had been too much austerity in Portugal, Mr Draghi said that he thought the country had achieved "very remarkable results".