Nothing more graceful could be imagined than this light foreign touch in the sombre austerityof Gothic art.
It had yielded to the influence of the Southern style, was simplified by this contact and took on the austerity and proportion of the South.
He adhered almost exclusively to the use of powerful ink-lines and denied himself the use of any color, whether scattered or prominent, which would have robbed his painting of the austerity which was the source of its surpassing feeling.
In truth the singularausterity of his life gives some countenance to the report.
I never jest on any subject," replied the melancholy-looking girl, knitting her dark brows into a frown of suchausterity as almost made Rosalind tremble.
That heart will for ever forbid my speaking with harshness and austerity to you.
Not so in Spain; at Toledo, at Burgos, there is an austerity in the cathedrals, an unworldliness.
Cæsar realized that it was useless to attempt to convince a man of the intelligence and austerity of the Cardinal, and he listened to him respectfully.
Sanctity was further enhanced by mortification of the flesh, and austerity of life was highly praised and followed by the admiring mob.
During one half of the fourteenth century, it formed the abode of an anchorite, renowned far and wide for the austerity of his life, who invariably slept upon a bed of sharp thorns, and whose food was restricted to roots and wild honey.
Mrs. Lawk invariably acted as chief jailer, and, taking him into custody, changed his various places of confinement with the austerity of a keeper of the Tower.
A swift light came into his face, softening its quiet austerity and strength.
Her tongue seemed imprisoned, yet her soft and candid eyes conquered the austerity in the old man's gaze.
Cæsar's humanitarian statesmanship was answered by the graveausterity of Cato.
The demoralisation was very inadequately checked by the austerity of the censorship as exercised by Cato.
It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order; and having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking.
The fact that Bulgaria has only tank brigades, which are probably one-half or less the strength of divisions, reflects the austerity of its armed forces.
It is marked by two other specialties: the absence of gallantry or amorous allusions, and the austerity of the religious sentiment.
Few things remove Washington farther from the general sympathy than the unbending austerity of hue in which his mental portrait is always colored.
To make his chamber as comfortable as conventual austerity would permit, Luis Quixada had hung it with some tapestry which remained in the meagre imperial wardrobe.
There was not a drop of austerityor intolerance or personal hatred in him.
The austerity and haughtiness of his manner naturally lessened his popularity, just as his caustic pen and satirical tongue made him bitter enemies; but his strong will and imperious manner were no more offensive than Clinton's.
Footnote 55: "The defeat of Schuyler was attributed partly to the unprepossessing austerity of his manner.
He was without austerity and easy of approach; and, although inclined to reticence, he seemed fond of indulging in jocular remarks and an occasional story; but he was a man of bad temper.
The scene held harsh contrasts between man's noisy activities and the silent austerity of the wilds.
This was a different thing from Alice Featherstone's rather stately beauty, which found an appropriate background in the dignifiedausterity of the Garth.
Mantegna's Madonna of the Quarries (1025), apart from its nobility of conception and grand austerity of sentiment, is a positive marvel of minute drawing with the point of the pennello.
We dimly discern in him an ideal bishop and father of his people; a man of great austerity and boundless charity, almost an earlier Antoninus.
But Mayburn felt the quiet and austerity a little disturbing.
Rousseau's exaggerated tone was an offence to Voltaire's more just and reasonable spirit, and the feigned austerity of a man whose life and manners he knew, assumed in his eyes a disagreeable shade of hypocrisy.
What austerity was to other forward movements, licence was to this.
Under the circumstances, it is not to be wondered at if his college life was marked by a pleasant, well-bred hedonism rather than by the austerity of the true New England temperament.
However, if any one thinks that I have written more ornately than is warranted by the serious nature of the subject, the remaining portions of the address ought to mollify what one may call the austerity of such a man.
I have not done that, not because I have greater austerity than they--by no means, but because I am not quite so daring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "austerity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
