| Both works build from simple, even austere, ideas, but Gould's work more closely adheres to the conventional idea of a fanfare. |
| The film has an austere and bittersweet beauty, but this could easily be interpreted as excessive, like drowning in rivers of despair. |
| After watching the recital, marked by an austere alaap and complex rhythmic patterns, students asked several questions. |
| He seems a somewhat austere and unsympathetic figure and his verses today seem dull and obscure, in translation at least. |
| He was an independent in religion, worshipping at the chapel Bunyan had served, a teetotaller, vegetarian, and a man of austere habits. |
| He is very reserved and austere, just as you would imagine a grand old man of ancient times to be. |
