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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.
Such austere commitment to Quality and Value would be easier to commend wholeheartedly if it didn't reek quite so much of snob appeal.
Artists and flower vendors sell their wares around Henry Moore’s sculpture Reclining Nude and more austere statues of Scottish poet Robert Burns and Canadian Prime Ministers Wilfrid Laurier and John MacDonald.
This means that improvements in glaze quality and metallurgy become clear, but the viewer must grope for what links an austere, octagonal Tang vase to a theatrically rearing, gilded bronze dragon from the same era.
Funds ran out before Michelangelo’s planned façade could embellish the austere barn-like exterior.