austere

There’s something slightly disconcerting about seeing Golding’s austere, inward fictions placed alongside works operating in such different registers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Just two years later, the financial crisis triggered an austere reappraisal of his record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

"Her success rested on a careful balance: projecting herself as both an uncompromising street fighter and an austere, maternal figure delivering welfare to those living with economic insecurity," says Proma Raychaudhury of Krea University.

From BBC ● May 5, 2026

He has made a name for himself in Texas conservative circles as the architect behind the formation of a handful of small towns with austere — nearly nonexistent — local governments.

From Salon ● May 3, 2026

Then it was back to Paris to work on the peace treaty ending the war, an experience that generated his lifelong enmity toward Franklin, who found him insufferably austere and obsessively diligent.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis