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It is a method tested “in the most austere, complex environments in which people are shooting at us and people are dying,” he says.

A small dot down in the lower right-hand corner visually transforms the austere composition into an essay on the perceptual dynamics of deep space, as if we — like that little dot — are floating untethered.

What we have heard so far about the Budget sounds rather austere, but the chancellor is defining austerity as real-terms cuts in government departments.

The video, an austere affair with the band lip-syncing in front of a white background, became ubiquitous; “1984” became the first Van Halen record to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart.

Throughout that period it made policymaking more austere and left the country without the resources to combat real economic needs such as poverty while increasing inequality.