Examples of austere

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To the outward eye he was austere, even bleak.
In architectural detail they were austere, with surfaces rendered in adobe and roofed in tiles.
The first is" an austere purity of language" and" a perfect appropriateness of the words to the meaning".
The façade, in particular, is severe and in sheer, block form; it is impressive in its austere simplicity.
The style is massive, austere, finely proportioned and intensely durable.
They think that the only legitimate account of priority is a very austere one.
Others, less austere in their altruism, may attempt forms of practice designed to remove them from the financial influences in medicine.
To feel the envy of others, their attempts to gain favour with you, by fair means or foul, your austere grace confounding them.
While women's dress was simplified, it still remained ornamental whereas men's dress became austere and uniform.
In fact the narrator's language is positively austere as he tries to minimize our sense of recapitulation.
The curious union of stability and movement came to a head in the formation of new, austere, but centralized orders in the early twelfth century.
With local exceptions, the one is exaggeratedly chromatic and ornamental, the other exaggeratedly diatonic and austere.
Liberalism is austere, people respond to tribal passions, every nation wrestles with its demonic urges.
Also, the austere axiomatic style that characterizes this work was adopted only progressively.
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