Sentence examples for to austere from inspiring English sources
adjective
Grim or severe in manner or appearance
- The headmistress was an austere old woman.
He has sampled every genre under the sun, from world music to austere electronica.
There was, as there remains, something monkish about his submission to austere forms and procedures.
The 2,000 examples range from the historic to the ultracontemporary, from stately to quirky, ornate to austere.
So the base of the collection was "prettiness," not such an easy path now that fashion has moved on from girlish froth to austere minimalism.
I think about the years spent deployed to austere combat zones, months of training in the bitter cold and constantly missing my wife.
Similarly the a cappella music consists of Shaker hymns, but Mr. Solari has harmonized and arranged them in ways foreign to austere Shaker practice.
These two environments were designed to be austere to minimize the impact of extraneous sensory inputs.
You don't have to get a big raise or commit to an austere budget to start saving.
To adhere scrupulously to it would require them to impose austere budgets that could bring on a recession.
The twenty-seven paintings on view range across a spectrum of styles, from the spirited and gestural to the placid and restrained to the austere and mechanical.
It would be ridiculous to imagine that we could ever return to the austere 1940s.
