These austere forms take on an aura of ancient idols.

Since 1995, I've basically practiced a very austere form of 'going without."'

Yet even this hell we know to have been acceptable as an organic member in the austere form of the cosmos.

The Socialist League put the case for an austere form of democratic socialism.

Like tiny ripples on a pond, her face registers the concerns of a caring surrogate parent committed to practicing an austere form of tough love.

It comprises seven objects in a row estate, with austere architectural forms, so characteristic of Weinwurm's puristic work.

Before I could inquire exactly why he thought so, or who "him" was, the austere form of Ulysses appeared in the doorway.

Several houses, done in that austere yet commanding form for which the Puritans were justly famous, stood clustered near the steeply-sheared bank.

That same year he experienced a religious crisis which led him from Jansenism to an austere form of Catholicism.

The term "lancet window" is properly applied to windows of austere form, without tracery.