Sentence examples for somewhat austere from inspiring English sources

The lemonlike, palate-cleansing 2008 edition ($35) is lean and somewhat austere.

That home is spacious, contemporary, dramatic and lovely in its way, I suppose, though I found it somewhat austere.

It captures a long row of women, some pushing prams, entering what looks like a somewhat austere rest home.

It was as if the somewhat austere fixtures and fittings highlighted the splendour and vividness of the food.

I know this, because it was how I began to separate myself from the somewhat austere Christian environment I grew up in.

The combination of olive oil, garlic and clam broth boiled in a rich, briny sauce practically demands a lively, lean, high-acid, somewhat austere white.

The interior of Nassau Hall was fairly austere.

Adding grapes like syrah, merlot or montepulciano can make the somewhat pale, austere brunello softer, darker and plusher, and more appealing to an audience willing to pay brunello's high prices.

In the Lutheran churches of her youth, she recalled communion as being a somewhat solemn, austere and even alienating experience.

A man who probably lived a somewhat lonely, austere, bachelor life, working the long hours the job required out of a dedication to the profession.

But with severe budget problems looming, even the Republican reception seemed somewhat subdued, even austere, compared with Mr. Pataki's previous inaugurations.