Rather than recalling saintly deeds, she remains impressed at how the founder demanded all the homespun limits of poverty, down to a severe wooden chair when she was infirm.
Moreover, with the exception of the rather severe dining room chairs (which can seem quite hard by the end of a long meal), the Rufos have managed to combine luxury and comfort successfully — no small feat.
Classical motifs at first were sparingly applied to furniture of unchanged form, but slowly the curved line of Rococo was replaced by a simpler and more severe rectilinear design: chair legs became straight, tapered, and fluted; commodes and other storage furniture were no longer of bombé form.
I have a tendency to get a little severe about taste in chairs until I've sat in them.
"45 years on from the Equal Pay Act, we still have a problem, and it's severe," says Caroline Waters, interim chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission EHRCC).
"If you get a positive result in either of these assays, you can use that as a positive for the purposes of classifying and labeling [a material] as a severe irritant," says Marilyn Wind, chair of ICCVAM and a deputy associate executive director with the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
It was a pretty serious business, severe and theoretical: Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three Chairs," an iconic early example, consists of a folding chair placed against a wall, a photograph of the same chair on the wall to one side of it, and a dictionary definition of "chair," enlarged and hung on the wall to the other side.
Wheelchair users with muscle atrophy, a condition in which the muscle wastes away, often face severe delays to receive their chair, according to Muscular Dystrophy UK research.
"The EBA's 2016 stress test shows the benefits of capital strengthening done so far are reflected in the resilience of the EU banking sector to a severe shock," said Andrea Enria, EBA chair.
He himself was sick and in early convalescence experienced "pain on rising from my chair [that] was very severe after a short interval of rest....I suffered severely [from joint pain] for more than two months afterward" (4 ).
