austere

The cells are austere—essentially hardened trailers—that cost about $40,000 each to build.

The site is not unlike North Korea itself: austere and more than a little bit dated-looking.

Multi-story hotel towers stand stripped of any ornamentation, and seem almost Soviet in their austere and honest decay.

“It looks spare and austere, but we spent 1,000 hours creating these,” Snoeren said.

The designs were meant to be “stark” and “austere,” the designers said, and there were no straight seams in the creations.

The sedateness of his deportment and the apparent regularity of his life delighted austere moralists.

Madame Torvestad, with an austere and imperious aspect, sat in her place; many gazed at her, but she maintained her composure.

Hence those great devotions, those austere retreats from the world, of which some of them have given an example.

These are the followers of Levana, the austere goddess who takes up the new-born babe and perfects it by sorrow.

This type became more and more rigid and austere as the gathering shadows of the Dark Ages mantled on the minds of men.