austerity

If we want to maintain that invisible infrastructure that is the foundation of a modern industrial society, we can’t just do austerity now.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Wakefield said too many services for young people had been "cut, cut, cut, cut over years of austerity", and that there needed to be "more youth clubs, more opportunities for sports, more opportunities for creativity".

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

As the Joseon dynasty government intensified its commitment to Confucian values in the 15th century, the court increasingly ordered unadorned wares to demonstrate austerity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Local 99 leader Arias dismissed the necessity of the three-year austerity plan.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

McCandless was stirred by the austerity of this landscape, by its saline beauty.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

“These powers were allegedly acquired by Buddhist priests who performed austerities in the mountains such as ablutions under freezing waterfalls, meditation in caves, and severe dietary restrictions during extended periods of seclusion.”

From National Geographic ● Jan. 19, 2024

Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh faith, regarded fasting as inferior to the “truth” or “right action,” which he said was superior to fasting, penance or other austerities.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities.

From Slate ● Dec. 25, 2017

While builders on the Eastern Seaboard assembled cookie-cutter colonials by the thousands, Tucson developers instead adapted the austerities of International Style Modernism to their city’s magnificent though challenging terrain.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015

In his later days, he alternately engaged in devout austerities with Madame de Maintenon, and, with mournful resolution, asserted the independence of France against Europe in arms.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various