austere
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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
Liberated from farming and fearful of helot revolts, the Spartans developed their austere lifestyle and rigorous program of military training.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 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
He and Tessie were stationed at Pearl Harbor, where they lived in austere marital housing and where my mother, at twenty-five, got a terrible sunburn and was never seen in a bathing suit again.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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