0 severely simple and plain; without luxuries or unnecessary expenditure -- giản dị
The report is from an austere, correct, middle-of-the road organisation.
The real target they have to aim at is not profitability but this somewhat austere phrase "break-even".
Overall the music sustains an excitingly austere mood yet also has vitality, dance energy, lightness and lyricism; the production as a whole has a spectacular feel to it.
The settings are interspersed with brief, wispily austere, scuttling canons for string quartet in rippling quintuplets, based on material from the preceding songs, casting new light on them.
The more austere the rule, that is, the more it curbs their inclinations, the more force it gives to the one inclination which it leaves them with.
A denuded orchestral palette, with rattling percussion and sombre woodwind lines, is supported by an austere, pianissimo chord.
In this austere, brazen and eldritch score he finally dispenses, almost totally, with any last hints of neo-classical phraseology or diatonic tonality.
However, he was also a complex man, whose high public pro®le was often at odds with his reserved and austere inner-self.
