How To Use Austere In A Sentence
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To make such a rectangular and austere space appropriate for music, walls are treated with acoustic plaster and ceilings are absorbent too.
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Combined with the snowily austere imagery of the scene, the effect is chilling.
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A very austere life is truly unimaginable to people.
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Peter expected high standards, but his sometimes austere manner veiled a deep concern for people and an insight into the human condition.
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My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
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At first sight it can seem very hard and austere, with a daily schedule comprising set periods of silence, prayer, work and recreation.
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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
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He is not magnetic but on the contrary cold and austere.
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His playing is more austere than on Big Deep, rattling off scrapes and stunted scrabbles with occasional distended, detuned bass action.
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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.
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It was a gorgeous, awe-inspiring piece of modern machinery - almost Zen-like in its shining simplicity and austere precision.
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On a basic level, the destruction of these austere cuboid monoliths on our skyline has provoked us to reflect on what buildings mean.
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The piece is illustrated with images that demonstrate the austere intensity of his work since then, exquisite abstract interiors and still lifes executed in his preferred palette of white, grey, light ochre and sienna.
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The switches are large and solid, and the bold shapes and contours give the impression of utility without ever approaching the austere.
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The king's persistency in begging her not to veil so austerely a face which the gods had made for the admiration of men, his evident vexation upon her refusal to appear in Greek costume at the sacrifices and public solemnities, his unsparing raillery at what he termed her barbarian shyness, all tended to convince her that the young
King Candaules
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The completed building is a towering rectangular block with almost no decoration, an austere statement and bold break away from the traditional methods of architectural adornment.
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The room was furnished in austere style.
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Her father is a very austere man.
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It was for the solemn task of protecting and sanctifying the ducal resting place that Philip chose the most austere of the religious orders.
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The roof's prism casts the light throughout the chapel, balancing the only other objects inside - a puritan aesthetic of elegantly austere seating, a simple organ and the barest suggestion of an altar.
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Ishmael was struck by the man's austere expression.
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But so it was, as great men and princes are said to call in their flatterers when dinner has been served, so the Athenians, upon slight occasions, entertained and diverted themselves with their spruce speakers and trim orators, but when it came to action, they were sober and considerate enough to single out the austerest and wisest for public employment, however much he might be opposed to their wishes and sentiments.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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The designs were pure, austere and coldly beautiful.
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In a beautiful, austere church there's liturgical music playing and rare religious artwork.
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His new place is in the austere neoclassical style typical of the Italian Riviera.
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Justinian led an austere life, working hard for long hours and expecting the same of subordinates.
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But now, published as a handsome if austere chapbook, the poem can be understood on its own terms.
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He is the most rigorous, spare, austere of film-makers.
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Husa's balance of austere folk-cultural strains with a modernist aesthetic -- clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, violist Steve Tenenbom and cellist Marcy Rosen gave an authoritative performance -- was deeply influenced by Bartók.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing
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This one is very new, and the room is still rather austere: simple chairs and tables importantly set with linen.
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Then she would do housework, but it was such an austere cottage that there was hardly anything to do.
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We picked chopped and reveled in the austere, sour pigginess of the experience.
Barbecue and Beyond
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I have English Breakfast tea in a blue and white porcelain cup - not an austere Chinese willows weeping vessel, but an Italian blue flowers happily dancing on white type ceramic curvy cup.
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It is austerely modernist, making little concession to either plot or character, more like a fictive sculpture than a story, an obsessively repeated series of patterns.
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The apartment block is marginally less austere, stepping back as it rises over 10 storeys with faceted bay windows like concertinas animating the wall plane.
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Others had a different gripe with his austere approach to soldiers' lifestyles.
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The speaker advocated a less austere observance of the Sabbath.sentence dictionary
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That or hard time, very hard time, the hardest imaginable, in one of Her Majesty's most austere hostelries.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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She would stride onto the stage, sit confidently, legs crossed, and, in that austere, Waspy lockjaw voice that has become her trademark, do what she does best - sell order and beauty, aspiration and a sort of perfection.
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The compound loomed in front of him, the cement walls austere and forbidding.
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He was widely respected for his pious and austere way of life, dressing in skins and eating only herbs.
COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
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‘He was taken away from his mother and brought up in a cold, austere home with little affection or comfort,’ Cynthia writes.
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As we sit inside one of the Japanese Tea pavilions on austerely placed wooden slats with just a wedge of cushioning, a bearer walks across the narrow ledge between the lily ponds.
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Dressed in austere white, her graying hair cut close to her scalp in the orthodox style so that the bristly ends tickle my palms when I run my hands over them, she's the one who makes sure we are suitably dressed for school in the one-inch-below-the-knee uniforms the nuns insist on.
Excerpt: Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Joe Stirt says: "Swiss luxury penmaker Montblanc has just come out with a $23,000 pen to commemorate the austere, asceticleader of Indian independence's birth on this date (October 2) in 1869.
Boing Boing
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The result is impressive but awfully stern and austere.
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In the beginning, both seemed austere, even ungiving.
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As consort she supplied the human touch that contrasted with the more austere image and personality of her husband.
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The present volume, bright as it is in expression, is full of evidences that the author has submitted to the austerest requirements of his laborious profession; and if his opinions generally coincide with those which have been somewhat reluctantly adopted by the most eminent physicians of the age, it is certain that he has not jumped to his conclusions, but has reached them by patient and independent thought, study, and observation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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The food of Tarazona is known for its almost austere plainness; this has been tempered lately by chefs who have brought an elegance to their cooking.
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These alterations have no other authority than the caprice of the translators, acting in the interests of a purer, austerer, but more timid theology.
Introduction to the Old Testament
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For example, my recent browse of the description of the Werckmesiter Harmonies, an austerely beautiful black and white film by the Hungarian director, Bela Tarr led me via Netflix's Cinematch recommendation system to the Devil's Backbone by the Mexican filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro; a look at the terrifically exciting 60s thriller Blow Up led me to Nicholas Roeg's 70s thriller Don't Look Now.
Tom Silva: Netflix Opens a Pandora's Box
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It is a place of austere but majestic beauty.
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Dressed in a simple and austere white, the students filled the auditorium with their stirring songs.
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He was gifted with a great sense of humour, and it was unsuspected by those who did not know him really well because of his austere appearance.
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These latter, such as the ambulatories leading to or flanking the central dome, transform what might otherwise be relatively austere into elegance and beauty.
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Individually, he would much prefer to have been one of his own "Seven Vagabonds" rather than one of the austerest preachers of the primitive church of New England; but the austerest preacher of the primitive church of New England would have been more tender and considerate to a real Mr. Dimmesdale and a real
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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Turning away from childish games, she used to hide herself in retired chambers, that she might give herself up more completely to prayer; and by constantly reading the deeds of holy men, she was so inflamed with the desire of a more austere life, that she even laid a plan with her brother to run away from their father's house and to betake themselves to a desert place.
29 December -- St Thomas of Canterbury
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For half a century Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau withered any rival in vocal range with an austere glare and an iron grip on recording opportunities.
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Masur simply, a bit austerely intoned the opening chorale of the Adagio, creating relief for the violins to effortlessly make their line in allargando unison to follow it very compellingly.
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If you happen to forget your novel, you can quite happily while away the hours drinking in this austerely beautiful scenery.
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But what tempts these youngsters to leave the security of home and lucrative jobs for an austere lifestyle of development work in India?
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The hallmark of those novelists who have tried to write about the attacks is a sort of austere plangency — or a quivering bathos — that has been in evidence almost from the moment the planes hit.
Racing Against Reality
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It is the perfect replacement for the lavish dinner party and an ideal entertainment solution for austere times.
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His Keatsian Choral Symphony took many years to become established, and the austere bitonality of the Fugal Concerto and the Double Concerto for two violins puzzled even his admirers.
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There was no simple retreat from austere aristocratic classicism to bourgeois romanticism.
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Wee are in the wrong, to thinke her incommodities serve her as a provocation and seasoning to her sweetness, as in nature one contrarie is vivified by another contrarie: and to say, when we come to vertue, that like successes and difficulties overwhelme it, and yeeld it austere and inaccessible.
That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die.
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Agnes Martin's austerely minimal grid paintings made a profound impression on him.
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Chaim in fact suggested some changes in the design to make the area around the pulpit (bema) less austere, and Kahn agreed to a few.
Lea Lane: A Tony Winner Sets Off a Chain of Memories
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The space itself is minimally arranged: it is clinical, but not austere - a type of investigation room.
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For example, some commentators say that George Orwell originally wanted to title Nineteen Eighty-Four as 1948, because he saw the world he describes emerging in austere postwar Europe.
Dystopia
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Travers was born in 1909, the daughter of an austere, stiff, unloving but clearly well-off family who, for the sake of her father's rheumatism, moved to Cannes on the French Riviera when she was 12.
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The results are centered, economic, and if occasionally obvious, prove an effective offset to vocals that run from austere to jarringly dense and discordant.
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Cuthbert led an austere life of prayer and solitude.
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There was no simple retreat from austere aristocratic classicism to bourgeois romanticism.
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During her month in the 1950s, Hina had to endure strict discipline, austere meals, outdoor swimming and incessant tests.
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an austere expression
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Her default palette was austere, almost military plain, leavened with the occasional printed silk.
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In the year in which we live -- and it is sometimes necessary to remind the austerer critic that we always live in the present -- there are a hundred books, of poetry, of essays, of biography, of fiction, which are by no means of the first rank and yet are highly important, if only as news of what the world, in our present, is thinking and feeling.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
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Presentation is austere: the hardback, which is matt black with silvered lettering, has no dust jacket, no tables, and no illustrations.
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The Taliban's promise - in Pashtun areas straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan - was to restore peace and security and enforce their own austere version of Sharia, or Islamic law, once in power.
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The last thing I could remember is the physician giving me an anesthetic shot and Matik's austere expression.
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She and I have been wont to predetermine you, your character, foothold, and outlook, by — say by the fact that you knew your Wordsworth and that you knew him without being able to take for yourself his austere peace.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Critics knock the X3 for its austere interior, but most BMWs tend toward the spartan.
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But I won't miss the onslaught of spiders, the austere personality of a wealthy neighborhood, and the accompanying coldness from the void of the garage below me.
Wanderlustress:
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But Hallendren did not reach this halcyon state without a struggle, a revolution that left those who rejected it living in austere exile in the mountain realm of Idris.
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She had been sold when he first beheld her, and should, he muttered austerely, have been ticketed the property of a middle-aged man, a worn-out French marquis, whom she had agreed to marry, unwooed, without love -- the creature of a transaction.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete
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Knightley presumably got a script for this austere but moving period piece.
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The real debate is between those who want to enjoy the fruits of prosperity and those who want an austere existence free from sensate temptation of any kind.
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The staging, by Louis Tyrrell, is finely conceived and executed, and Kent Goetz has designed the "austerely furnished" apartment specified by Mr. Hollinger with perfect taste.
Her Master's Voice From the Other Side
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Both works build from simple, even austere, ideas, but Gould's work more closely adheres to the conventional idea of a fanfare.
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‘I'll give you a week, Colin,’ Sam said austerely, ‘And you better have your answer by then.’
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At first, the nose is a bit austere, but as it warmed just a bit out of the fridge classic aromas of rose petals reach up out of the glass, along with gingery spice and sweet tropical fruit notes.
The New York Cork Report:
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A drab, austere society had suddenly been plunged into a more competitive, glamorized world in the 1970s and 1980s.
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It is difficult to imagine, when we admire these austere white or red walls, the flamboyance of the treasures they protect.
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It is a place of austere but majestic beauty.
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He looks and sounds every inch the austere, reserved and respected university lecturer that he once was.
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Laboratory life may seem austerely clean and clinical, but it is by no means genteel.
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And all my austere nights of midnight oil, all the books I had read, all the wisdom I had gathered, went glimmering before the ape and tiger in me that crawled up from the abysm of my heredity, atavistic, competitive and brutal, lustful with strength and desire to outswine the swine.
Chapter 27
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Beyond, out of sight, rise the peaks of the Grampian massif, the high heart of Scotland with its austere tracks leading to lonely places.
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But I must warn you, once we get past the hallway and into the room, the occupants are rather strict and austere.
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The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
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The courtroom was a large dark chamber, an austere place.
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It would be in keeping with these austere economic times and might appeal to this very modern couple.
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Ahead of me the Moon hung cold and austere, her seas and mountains picked out in sharp grey tones.
Anti-Ice
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His midi is crazy-chic, austere, graceful and non-flashy.
What I bought this week: witty tights
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Even in winter there's an austere beauty to the bare branches of aspen, apricot, and apple trees, and the bright-red berries of mountain ash.
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Church buildings and worship were austere and simple, and the service mainly consisted of lengthy sermons.
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Morea's mother seems inexplicably sad and austere, nursing a secret grief.
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Berlin in February often features grey slush and icy winds, accompanied by an austere but worthy programme of films in competition.
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Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.
Chapter 16
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There they were associated with the look and dress of a torrero, and our coachman, though an old Castilian of the austerest and most taciturn pattern, may have been in his gay youth an Andalusian bull-fighter.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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From years of denial and austere behavioural therapy groups - whether in school or privately with a psychiatrist - there are some who are imperviously self-conscious and rely heavily on medication to mask whatever symptoms may surface.
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Living conditions, austere at best, included leased warehouses not designed as living quarters or office space.
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And this woman, ever engaged in virtuous acts and the Agnihotra, and the austerest of penances, obtained
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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The Georgian church, with its primitive and austere frescoes, is a fighting peasants 'church whose aim is sheer survival.
Where Europe Vanishes
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But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image.
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Others had a different gripe with his austere approach to soldiers' lifestyles.
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In a move that may surprise some of their residents, given the current austere economic climate, a number of cash-strapped councils are enthusiastistically promoting the big day.
Royal wedding fever divides along political boundaries
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The austere landscape had shifted from barren scrubland to enormous jumbles of rocks that looked as if God had forgotten to straighten them up.
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The conditions attached to loans were often austere.
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It was a great concept, a book of trivia to help lift the drab, austere grey days of the mid fifties…
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Inevitably, her austere solo performance style also lacked some of the expressive range of her studio recordings, which typically benefit from richer instrumentation and more eccentric arrangements.
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But in austere, plain-Jane face it seems unrelated to the next-door cousin that flies high in lacy, frilly stonework.
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As well, the austere lifestyle chosen by King Ferdinand and his lords could be the medieval equivalent of today's self-improvement craze.
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“These guys bring a whole new level of meaning to the word austere.”
Healing the Highlander
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She had no formal training but developed a rigorous, austere style, counter-pointed by a sensuous use of color, which she maintained for many decades.
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These worthies took upon themselves to mutilate the sculpture work on the marvellous façade and to "embellish" the austere cathedral with Gothic decorations of cardboard.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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Another: Having scraped off the rind of the most tender roots of the wild vine, which some call psilothrion, boil in a dark austere wine undiluted; then having pounded, apply as a tepid cataplasm; but mix also flour and stir it up with white wine and oil in a tepid state.
On Fistulae
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Combining a depressing ending and austere realism with an idealistic, descriptive story is one of Hemingway's particulars of style.
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A subsequent revival of religious practice led to a return to a more austere form of religion, which fed into political dissatisfaction with the colonial situation.
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These lunches are well known for being far from austere, since a wide variety of home-made soup is served, with a bap and cheese.
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He has purchased a wide range of artwork, including colorful, cartoonish prints and wild abstracts framed in austere black mouldings.
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With its almost unornamented limestone facade, it is in the austere style associated with neoclassicism.
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So the glossy cars, for example, are set off by an austere, nonreflecting background of matte concrete.
Car-chitecture: New Museums
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The demise of cheap energy is going to bring the collapse of late-capitalist bourgeois civilisation, and with it great hardship associated with the transition to a more austere and labour-intensive way of life.
Matthew Yglesias » The Limits to Growth
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Padded but austere, square seat and backrest, with chrome legs and elegant stitching, the armless chair — in fact, my entire office: sleek no-nonsense windows; spare masculine furnishings; metal and black leather and dark wood — rendered him out of place and hulkingly redundant.
In the hot seat
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The due performance of these eternal duties, viz., the worship of the gods, the study of the Vedas, and the gratification of the Pitris, as also regardful services unto the preceptors -- these are called the austerest of penances.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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We led an austere life in the mountain.
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There was every kind of marvelling, beatifical, astonished, profound, gay, austere, amidst unconscious smiles and languid postures of the head.
His Masterpiece
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Devout Christians sought austere monasteries and convents for a period of solitude and the chance to be reunited with God.
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Like the previous budgets of the past seven years, the spending plan is austere and is even likely to have a contractive effect on the economy.
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On the other hand William was totally unpretentious and extremely austere in his living arrangements.
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The Petrie Chardonnay 2003 is a clean, complex, minimally oaked food wine in the slightly austere style of top French white burgundies.
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The people are still leading an austere life in the mountains.
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They were the toilers and savers of the economic miracle generation who forswore luxuries in the austere postwar decades to reserve their place in the sun towards the end of their lives.
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My sister, indolent and unimaginative as she was, had visions of endless touch-typing speed trials supervised by austere women under flickering striplights.
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This one is very new, and the room is still rather austere: simple chairs and tables importantly set with linen.
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The wooden panelling from the ship and even the lino floor covering was removed in those austere post-war days and taken back to Pewsey to be re-used.
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The conditions are austere: one book for ten children, a tiny blackboard and a roof with holes.
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Like much of the liturgical music of the Orthodox tradition, Tavener's music is intentionally simple and even austere.
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Jansenist, mainly out of political hatred of the Jesuits, partly from a hostility, very easily explained, to every manifestation of ultramontane feeling and influence, partly from a professional jealousy of the clergy, but partly also because the austere predestinarian dogma, and the metaphysical theology which brought it into supreme prominence, seem often to have had an unexplained affinity for serious minds trained in legal ideas and their application.
Voltaire
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We hope to attract a new generation of collectors, make this place seem more accessible, less austere.
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Incense here has, to me, a definite "churchy" feel, more specifically, for some reason it makes me think of Orthodox churches with their combination of austere spirit and Byzantine opulence.
Archive 2007-04-01
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In “The Shadow of Years,” Du Bois retold his saga of the Black Burghardts of the Berkshires and of growing up “by a golden river” in Great Barrington, of the lordly Du Boises and his austere paternal grandfather, of the “age of miracles” at Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin, and of his work in Atlanta.
DARKWATER
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The conditions attached to loans were often austere.
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All of this is presented in a style that is both austere and beautiful - plain as can be, yet suffused with an appreciation for artifice as a way of survival.
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The juxtaposition of an austere exterior and grand interior is characteristic of the local vernacular tradition.
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In her own home, she replaced austere minimalism with cosy warmth and colour.
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Solitude has austere lessons; it can teach us to spare both heroes and poets; and it weighs Shakespeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity.
Representative Men
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It forcibly reduces this complexity and diversity to an austere homogenous simplicity.
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He was widely respected for his pious and austere way of life, dressing in skins and eating only herbs.
COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
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At close to six feet, Gerrard had the height and breadth of shoulder to carry the austere lines.
WHOLE SECRET LOVE
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We hope to attract a new generation of collectors, make this place seem more accessible, less austere.
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The speaker advocated a less austere observance of the sabbath.
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John Major in the life of John the monk, that lived in the days of Theodosius, commends the hermit to have been a man of singular continency, and of a most austere life; but one night by chance the devil came to his cell in the habit of a young market wench that had lost her way, and desired for God's sake some lodging with him.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In “The Shadow of Years,” Du Bois retold his saga of the Black Burghardts of the Berkshires and of growing up “by a golden river” in Great Barrington, of the lordly Du Boises and his austere paternal grandfather, of the “age of miracles” at Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin, and of his work in Atlanta.
DARKWATER
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Austere surroundings and a humdrum card, but the country's – perhaps the world's – most famous jockey is buzzing.
Frankie Dettori at Newmarket ready for the few that have got away
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An austere and formal man, his affection for his wife and seven living children was minimal.
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In a beautiful, austere church there's liturgical music playing and rare religious artwork.
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Berlin in February often features grey slush and icy winds, accompanied by an austere but worthy programme of films in competition.
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This was shown by their not disliking rhubarb mixed with a little sugar and milk, which is to us abominably nauseous; and in their strong taste for the sourest and most austere fruits, such as unripe gooseberries and crabapples.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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It is the perfect replacement for the lavish dinner party and an ideal entertainment solution for austere times.
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A very austere life is truly unimaginable to people.
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These austere bowling crafts will potentially make some players rich.
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The anti-candida diet is terribly austere and, for the average person, can be difficult to sustain in the long term.
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As a subject area, philosophy still suffers from an image problem sometimes, whether as austere, magisterial or downright difficult, so this reassurance seems entirely appropriate.
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The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration.
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Obvious concern was etched on her face, making it loose its austere quality.
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The conditions attached to loans were often austere.
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The tolerant, liberal, egalitarian country which we are now, or at least aspire to be, was only just beginning to struggle out of the austere, regressive, hierarchical society of the post-war years.
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He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night.
STRIDER KNIVES
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He was a tall, austere, forbidding figure.
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It would be in keeping with these austere economic times and might appeal to this very modern couple.
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Four film crews followed them as they were put through their paces in the austere classrooms and spartan dormitories by real teachers.
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Etta was a very austere widow who wore a little glass lens on a chain around her neck and held it up to peer at Norm and I whenever she visited us.
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Austere narrative depicts a 1950s Peterborough, Ontario swarming with tricksters, murderers, shysters and sodomites.
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This is of massive value, especially in austere economic times and for people reliant of food banks.
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An 1890 article in The New York Times debated the ethics of tipping porters: Tipping is objected to by austere and frugal American moralists upon the ground that it undermines the manhood and self-respect of the tippee.
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In fact the narrator's language is positively austere as he tries to minimize our sense of recapitulation.
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Ahead of me the Moon hung cold and austere, her seas and mountains picked out in sharp grey tones.
Anti-Ice
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One new tendency -- that which insists more passionately than ever on order and organization -- merely continues the impetus given by Cézanne and received by all his followers; but another, more vague, towards something which I had rather call humanism than humanity, does imply, I think, a definite breach with Cubism and the tenets of the austerer doctrinaires.
Since Cézanne
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His status among the people was consolidated by his lifestyle - he lived austerely, and never married.
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These pieces are austere and unadorned in a way that I'd associate with Shaker simplicity and grace.
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Presentation is austere: the hardback, which is matt black with silvered lettering, has no dust jacket, no tables, and no illustrations.
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a desert nomad's austere life
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Cookie, realizing exactly how her words must have sounded, cracked a smile as well, softening her austere expression somewhat.
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He was an independent in religion, worshipping at the chapel Bunyan had served, a teetotaller, vegetarian, and a man of austere habits.
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Like a long-married couple they josh, tease, squabble, niggle and compete to put each other down, and, in doing so, carry the show far beyond the austere world of words into the foothills of sitcom.
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Several pictures are by well-known artists, such as Man Ray's photogravure of a surreal turkey, "Cuisine (Kitchen): From the Portfolio Electricité" (1931); Harry Callahan's "Chicago" (c. 1951), a red, blue and black dye-transfer print that is almost painfully austere; and Josef Sudek's "My Window" (1952), one apple on a plate in front of a fogged window, somehow both enigmatic and wise.
Taking Nature's Refuge
