Living a compulsively orderly existence in an austere apartment that resembles a library, he spends hours fantasizing his own suicide, by hanging, gunshot and smothering.

Growing up in Greenwich Village and Chelsea, she said, she lived in austere apartments.

Except for the restrainer fields, the thick walls, and the barred door, the windowless room might have passed for a comfortable, if austere, apartment.

Over tea in the austere apartment the couple share with a daughter and son, Miss Simon, a clinical psychologist, recollected her impressions as wall opened.

Gordon took the couch in the living-room of their austere apartment, without expectation of being able to sleep.

Her austere apartment was decorated with fresh flowers, silver bells, colored balloons, white lace, and pastel ribbons.

Like their austere apartment, the couple's relationship has been filled with carefully chosen and resonant details.

His modern, austere apartment didn't contain much furniture.

Jerry felt as if his head were exploding with questions and anxiety, but he knew Japanese etiquette well enough to hold his tongue, and to follow Nancy into her silent, austere apartment.

They used public transport to return to the small, austere apartment where Volak had resided ever since the death of T'Pas.