austerity

How To Use austerity In A Sentence

• At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords.
• There are similarities in the practices of both sects: initiation is by tearing out the hair, and the lifestyle is one of extreme austerity involving nakedness, penances, and ordeals.
• Like it or not, the beauty of mathematics springs from its rigorous austerity.
• Bad as the austerity cuts may feel here, life over there is truly harsh: poverty means something entirely different. Times, Sunday Times
• Sitting in the lobby of Taj Coromandel and sipping a rich brew of cappuccino, pony-tailed and wearing sunburnt, athletic skin of a western beach boy, Nadaka seems far removed from the austerity of Auroville.
• All of this bad news comes on top of the tough austerity programme being pursued by the coalition government. Times, Sunday Times
• Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Greek riot police clashed with hundreds of people protesting austerity measures who tried to break a cordon outside Parliament. Anger in Athens
• Everyone seems to accept the need for cuts and austerity until it actually affects them, then there are squeals of protest. Times, Sunday Times
• The decision was reportedly taken in response to the government's current austerity programme.
• His emphasis on material austerity directly challenges our modern addiction to comfort, one of the Celtic tradition's most important correctives to our present mindset.