The cells are austere—essentially hardened trailers—that cost about $40,000 each to build.
The site is not unlike North Korea itself: austere and more than a little bit dated-looking.
Multi-story hotel towers stand stripped of any ornamentation, and seem almost Soviet in their austere and honest decay.
“It looks spare and austere, but we spent 1,000 hours creating these,” Snoeren said.
The designs were meant to be “stark” and “austere,” the designers said, and there were no straight seams in the creations.
His wife was an austere woman, who had once been kindly, and perhaps handsome.
May I once, and for the last time, assume the austere rights of friendship?
The Federal expanded with surprise and then with austere pleasure.
"I have done with you, Herbert Jameson," he said, with austere dignity.
And yet it must not be thought that his was an austere and grave existence.
early 14c., from Old French austere (Modern French austère) and directly from Latin austerus "dry, harsh, sour, tart," from Greek austeros "bitter, harsh," especially "making the tongue dry" (originally used of fruits, wines), metaphorically "austere, harsh," from PIE *saus- "dry" (cf. Greek auos "dry," auein "to dry"). Use in English is figurative: "stern, severe, very simple." Related: Austerely.
