austere

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Contemporary in the austere beauty of the sound and quiet intensity of the players.

From The Wall Street Journal

In contrast to this lavish vision, at the show’s second venue, the convent of San Marco, visitors see the painter’s austere side.

From The Wall Street Journal

The writer of “The Snow Leopard” and “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” wrote of nature’s austere simplicity.

From The Wall Street Journal

Blame was laid at the door of the challenges posed to Britain's athletes in particular by Brexit and Covid, as well as the austere conditions all Games attendees had to live under in Beijing.

From BBC

Other car-themed paintings included a handsome triptych from 2022 that shows a scramble of tailpipes, navigational systems and bits of landscape rendered in the austere color palette of a freeway.

From Los Angeles Times