| Critics knock the X3 for its austere interior, but most BMWs tend toward the spartan. |
| The last thing I could remember is the physician giving me an anesthetic shot and Matik's austere expression. |
| He seems a somewhat austere and unsympathetic figure and his verses today seem dull and obscure, in translation at least. |
| For half a century Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau withered any rival in vocal range with an austere glare and an iron grip on recording opportunities. |
| The film has an austere and bittersweet beauty, but this could easily be interpreted as excessive, like drowning in rivers of despair. |
| He is very reserved and austere, just as you would imagine a grand old man of ancient times to be. |
