Synonym: harsh, severe, stern, strict. Similar words: cluster, filibuster, stereotype, interested, exhaust, sustenance, poster, oyster. Meaning: [ɒ'stɪə] adj. 1. severely simple 2. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect 3. practicing great self-denial.
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31. August was reserved for Henderson House, where Grandmother Robinson presided with austere benevolence.
32. In fact the narrator's language is positively austere as he tries to minimize our sense of recapitulation.
33. Life may be regarded as an austere struggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the lucky fare well.
34. Students ate in an austere hall built by New England Puritans.
35. Others portrayed his austere demeanour and mirthless, rumbling laugh in a more sinister light.
36. An austere bravura exhibition for six dancers, it offers a series of solos of ever-increasing technical demands.
37. And in any case, the other austere Benedictine had taken the bait.
38. We hope to attract a new generation of collectors, make this place seem more accessible, less austere.
39. Astor was a shy, austere and, by all accounts, unlovable man.
40. The tower is a statement of arrival, as boastful and triumphant as the Tughluk buildings around me were understated and austere.
41. Their dress seemed more austere, both in its cut and in the absence of embellishment.
42. On the opposite wall, a print was mounted; an austere graphic design, white and grey to match.
43. This timekeeper, now known as H-5, has all the internal complexity of H-4 but assumes an austere outward appearance.
44. Today his message is more austere, more profound and more iconoclastic than ever.
45. That at Hyderabad with its wide cornices and balustraded roof detail was somewhat less austere than its more utilitarian neighbour at Secunderabad.
46. No brushed aluminium and rosewood here; its stereo systems are designed with graph-paper severity to put across an austere seriousness.
47. Luxuries were regarded as tending to undermine morals, so ideal societies were often austere and egalitarian.
48. It's a very austere movie, filmed largely in semi-darkness and featuring a morose baroque soundtrack.
49. The budget, allowing for expenditure of 176,700 million guilders, was the least austere for many years.
50. Bird-watchers have an austere view of existence: that which can not be pigeonholed should be shot.
51. Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect.
52. The style is massive, austere, finely proportioned and intensely durable.
53. The contrast of this laughing, luxuriant beauty with the clear-cut, austere grandeur all around arrests the attention sharply.
54. But in austere, plain-Jane face it seems unrelated to the next-door cousin that flies high in lacy, frilly stonework.
55. Before the coarse brown fabric hung an austere gibbet,(sentence dictionary) constructed of two weathered wooden beams.
56. Then she would do housework, but it was such an austere cottage that there was hardly anything to do.
57. His was a dark, autocratic face, with clear-cut features that held an austere masculine beauty.
58. Uncle Fred was an austere and impressive figure, whom some people found forbidding.
59. Playground fights at my London comprehensive, an austere archetypal 1960s building near Marble Arch, were frequent occurrences.
60. I prefer the more austere skeletons of the corals that live frugal, ancient lives in the deep sea.
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