austere

How To Use austere In A Sentence

• To make such a rectangular and austere space appropriate for music, walls are treated with acoustic plaster and ceilings are absorbent too.
• Combined with the snowily austere imagery of the scene, the effect is chilling.
• A very austere life is truly unimaginable to people. Times, Sunday Times
• Peter expected high standards, but his sometimes austere manner veiled a deep concern for people and an insight into the human condition.
• My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
• At first sight it can seem very hard and austere, with a daily schedule comprising set periods of silence, prayer, work and recreation.
• BERLIN—On a chilly October evening in her austere chancellery, Angela Merkel placed a confidential call to Rome to help save the euro. Deepening Crisis Over Euro Pits Leader Against Leader
• He is not magnetic but on the contrary cold and austere.
• His playing is more austere than on Big Deep, rattling off scrapes and stunted scrabbles with occasional distended, detuned bass action.
• Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.