austerely
- a word derived from austere.
Example Sentences
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If anything, he boldly foreshadows the darkness just on the horizon, shooting his drama austerely, the weight of inevitable doom hanging over everything.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024
The British choreographer Jules Cunningham is a creator of brainy, austerely meditative works that have taken on the gender-warping themes of the poet Kae Tempest and the dark emotions of the playwright Sarah Kane.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023
First published in 1971, this austerely handsome volume assembles a dozen literary fairy tales, that is, stories written in imitation of the oral folk narratives transcribed by the Brothers Grimm and other scholars.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2021
This austerely designed but thematically florid psychological thriller aspires to a cosmic grandeur that at times directly invokes the myth of Prometheus, a mortal who stole fire from the gods.
From Slate • Oct. 16, 2019
The woman had a long, brooding oval face of burnt umber, with coarse graying black hair parted severely in the middle and combed back austerely behind her neck without curl, wave or ornamentation.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
