“Davies' book portrays Bill Nicholson as an austere manager who finds it difficult to relate to players while regularly accusing them of lacking the guts of former generations of footballers.”

“But what tempts these youngsters to leave the security of home and lucrative jobs for an austere lifestyle of development work overseas?”

“Harris' influence, however, isn't apparent in the serious, austere, and occasionally beautiful music on this disk.”

“In neighboring Buddhist Tibet, on the high plateau in an austere environment, live the Brokpa herders.”

“He comes over as a rather serious, studious and austere man, but there is clearly another side to him.”