Sentence examples for so austere from inspiring English sources

Karenin was so austere, he was almost monastic".

In some ways, she was so austere, abstemious even.

We do not have to be so austere.

They are difficult to like at first, they're so austere.

"Judd's work — especially in Marfa — is so austere yet so warm".

And yet how should one approach a piece that, on paper, seems so forbidding, so austere?

Even Queen Victoria, so majestically austere in public, was a party girl at heart.

So, in austere postwar London, Stanley Holloway and his neighbours come over all bourgeois, instituting petty little rules, such as customs controls on the tube line.

For a work so famously austere, the "Grosse Fuge" attracts choreographers, and both of this weekend's settings were serious attempts to come to grips with the music.

Billed as a "special guest", Fatboy Slim's old-school rave turn proves not so much austere as stingy in terms of signature songs, which is surprising considering his Rockness godfather status (the festival grew out of a Fatboy Slim gig in 2006).

It's a shame the resulting works are so bloodless — austere to a fault, controlled to the point of preciousness — although the exhibition does have some lovely moments.