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Example sentences for: austere

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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.
His austere authoritarian regime — the Estado Novo (New State) — favored economic progress and nationalism.
It's a courtroom so secure and austere it wouldn't look out of place in Mission: Impossible . Located on the sixth floor of the Justice Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., its double doors swing shut and seal themselves to the wall when a button nearby is depressed; an oddly textured ceiling looms overhead.
Although much of the castle’s interior seems dark and austere, this highlights the magnificent wood floors and paneling and the superb joinery and construction techniques.
The reporter--a demurely austere product of colonial missionary parents--was on her first assignment and she was, in fact, completely new to this area.