austere

“All of these potential uses would directly support the academic mission in austere times,” the letter said.

Never a natural politician, he was seen as aloof and austere.

Northridge says it was meant to have an “Eastern European socialist look, which is very functional, very austere.”

Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban has steadily imposed laws and regulations that reflect its austere vision of Islamic law.

The walls of these rooms accomplish a kind of muting of her aura, a place where veneration feels austere or regimented by bureaucracy.