Sentence examples for sounds austere from inspiring English sources

All this sounds austere and self-serious.

Samuel Beckett's text sounds austere, bleak and difficult, and his prose work in general is less celebrated than the plays.

For the ambi-skeptical the best introduction is "Music for Airports," which still sounds austere yet expansive, and like nothing else in the world.

If that sounds austere, it is absolutely convivial compared with what Mr. Waugh would proceed to do, which was to remain in his limousine outside the hall until he had been introduced.

It sounds austere but the lodge is actually very cozy and well kept.

If his strictures about conserving Lanzarote's traditions sound austere, his architecture was organic and sensual.

The chorus demonstrated an appealingly blended sound, austere and somber in the chant and joyous and more full-blooded in the works by Rachmaninoff.

If these restrictions sound austere, be assured that the menu at Nevaèh (pronounced neh-VAY-uh) is packed with items that are creative and exciting.

Described like this, the film may sound austere, but the reality is the opposite – a film whose power derives from its remarkable atmosphere of hushed intensity.

On paper it sounds forbiddingly austere, its narrative essentially the rite of passage by which the soul of a dead woman is released into the afterlife.

While house music was taking shape in Chicago in the 80s, a small group of teenagers in Detroit were developing their own sound, influenced by the austere sounds of Kraftwerk as much as the raw funk of George Clinton.