Along the river trail one day, I spotted small mushrooms popping out from the green forest floor -- apricot-colored with broad, flat caps with frilly edges -- chanterelles, aka Tennessee truffles.* With their nutty, umami flavor, and meaty texture, chanterelles are in no ways austere --they'rare rare seasonal feast.
Nationalistic ambitions early on gave way to austere designs based on functionalism, and then to designs that emphasized human and ecological needs.
He would not kneel to pray, and when his pastor rebuked him for setting a bad example by leaving services before communion, Washington mended his ways in his austere manner: he stayed away from church on communion Sundays.
He's religious, in an austere way.
I made my way to an austere office where Mahmoud, who is eighty, was already sitting.
The movie, which opens nationwide today, is visually handsome in an austere way.
But despite the high price tag, this is one collection of artwork unlikely to find its way into the austere corridors of Sotheby's.
What: As campus fashion grew tony and buttoned-down in the 1890s, the zany hats of earlier years (including black caps with 2-foot-long pointed orange brims) gave way to more austere styles — brightened with hatbands.
On a historical level, the movie, which opens today at Film Forum, is a beautifully observed portrait of an austere way of life that seems ancient despite its 20th-century setting.
The Rochester speech, laying out her health proposals in a rather austere way, offered a glimpse of Mrs. Clinton as policy advocate, a plus according to pollsters who believe women pay more attention to issues than men.
