The aged, austere man who was England's spiritual head nodded.

Still, by any measure he is a handsome man in the way middle-aged and austere men can be.

He smiled suddenly and just for a moment he didn't look like the austere man she imagined he was.

He was now an austere man burned out by the fires of persecution and personal misery.

You know me as the austere man of science.

He was an austere man, and I was afraid of him.

A respected and austere man is discovered to have had a coarser side to his life hidden.

Truffaut himself played that austere man tortured by the past.

He was an austere man, who remained a bachelor until he was 61.

He was a tall, austere man in his late sixties, but he seemed much younger.