austere

At the center of the room was an austere white table.

Give us more, just what we need in these austere times.

They are difficult to like at first, they're so austere.

It was simply policy on his part to make himself austere.

It was even more austere than the rest of the place.

And those trying to make it only on family money see a more austere future.

Now, where would we be with that kind of thinking in these austere times?

He found it to be rather the most austere, but this was only natural.

With a more austere approach throughout, he might have made a great one.

People fast during the six days and those taking part in the play are more austere.

They were austere and, for the most part, still in good shape.

It was not the austere study of the previous day.

In all cases, conditions within the main house were felt to be too austere.

I understand that it is considered the most austere order in the country.

In some ways it was even a rather austere dance form.

"I just could never have married someone austere," she said recently.

The old man was able to take an austere retirement.

Harris looked a little more austere than when I had last seen him.

Quality feels good and it is well put together, if austere.

I'd been there once before, at 16, but my memory was of a rather austere place.

She is standing in her austere living room, which has almost no furniture.

At other times of the year the park perhaps showed its rather austere beauty.

So what if it was a little cramped and austere?

She has kept Harry's name, feeling her father's too austere.

The living conditions are a little austere but certainly adequate.