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Example sentences for: austere

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The anniversary was the subject of massive press comment around the world, with even an austere newspaper such as Le Monde of Paris devoting three whole pages to it Sunday.
The cold, dark and austere 16th-century Sé (cathedral) remains.
The austere installation of Chuck Close's big portraits at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City begins where any artist wants the narrative of his career to begin: with fully achieved art.
Despite his rhetoric, however, Binalshibh presented a more amiable figure than the austere Atta, and was known within the community as being sociable, extroverted, polite, and adventuresome.
But the Lady in Blue is hardly representative of the more austere figure studies that line the walls in the final room of the Met's exhibition.