Sentences with phrase «as austere»

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, for instance, has about as austere a Web site as exists online anymore, and thus seems perhaps the least likely candidate in The Am Law 100 to produce an opinionated or less formal blog.

These shapes overlap in abstract compositions, such as the austere «Royal Alpha» and the shimmering «Providence Spirits (Silver),» which also incorporates cowrie shells (once valued as money).

The exhibition features her acclaimed Redaction paintings and related drawings, focused on new kinetic LED beam that responds to movement as well as her austere stone benches.

The mechanics of the music box, cylinder, metal elements and pins, enlarged and magnified to an industrial scale, remind us of the visual language of films such as Chaplin's Modern Times andFritz Lang's Metropolis, as well as the austere objectivity of German photographer Adolf Lazi's 1930's photographic series.

Scaled up, it has lost some of the vigour and focus that often characterises the gallery's smaller efforts, and the result is a High Renaissance exhibition as austere as its chilly grey walls.

The ninth - floor restaurant is as austere and character-less as an Ikea showroom.

* * * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.Alexander Hamilton did not rise to public prominence as an austere New Englander or a gentlemanly Virginian.

Characters are never where you expect them to be, so often shoved into the bottom third or corners as the austere architecture of post-World War 2 Poland looms over them.

Especially in the English - speaking world there exists a mythical, not always helpful picture of Bresson as an austere transcendentalist, a Christian artist wrestling with suffering and sin and redemption in a fallen world.

I can't think of very many debut films as austere and accomplished as this southern fable about the sleepy lives of young African - American dreamers.

I wanted it to be shot in as austere a fashion as the landscape suggested — subtly flashy in an understated way.

This theme — «life matters» — is hard to see not because it's complicated or unfathomable, but because it's easy to assume that a filmmaker as austere as Kubrick would close his crowning achievement with a grander theme, one less quaint.

Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel had a long standing reputation as an austere leader, reflective of her upbringing in Cold War German Democratic Republic...

At times, you may strike others as austere, reserved... even cold!

The Mayor's budget can only be described as austere: although needs have grown in the wake of the recession, NYC spending on human services funding has fallen by 10 percent.

It might even be characterized as austere.

The many new revelations about Chile's dictatorial era came as Pinochet's personal image as an austere and incorruptible man disintegrated in the face of a U.S. Senate port affirming that he had accumulated millions of dollars in hidden wealth.

I've never experienced the elders as austere like this.

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The survey comes as a U.K. study by the government's pension minister Steve Webb warned last week that the pension gap was widening, with up to 13 million Brits heading for an austere retirement after not saving adequately during their working lives.

According to the editors, the 14th - century noun, defined as «the quality or state of being austere» and «enforced or extreme economy,» was the subject of some 250,000 online queries.

But as Deep Work author Cal Newport pointed out when he highlighted the letter on his blog recently, this austere schedule actually contains some essential wisdom that many of us miss out on these days.

As a teacher and Donne scholar, Vivian has been equally austere — strict, uncompromising, ungiving.

Jesus, although it is presumed he did not marry, was spoken of as a «wine - bibber» compared to his austere cousin John the Baptist.

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.

The reflections of the French Catholic writer François Mauriac, who succeeded in leading a conventional family life despite what he experienced as the powerful lure of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, demonstrate the gap between the austere piety of the religious individual and the tactful lifestyle that Tóibín detects in James:

Employing an unusual choice of word, Whitehead says that another aim of education is the acquisition of «style» which he classified as the most austere of all mental qualities.

While this was more obvious in the 70s, it remains a basic feature of rock — when one reads the bios, one finds that even such apparently austere bands as Joy Division or (pre-90s) U2 were very much attracted to rock fame, and at least in Joy Division's case, to the partying that went with it.

If I am right, Whitehead does not divorce his role as educator from that of philosopher, even in his most austere later treatments of the problems he has helped formulate for the University of London special M. Sc.

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

While not failing to strike these same notes of righteousness, judgment, and repentance, it differed as widely from John's message as his manner of life differed from that of the austere prophet, who lived alone in the desert, was clothed in camel's hair, and «came neither eating nor drinking.»

The austere beauty of that classic estate is as soothing to the soul as to the eye, and well rewards a morning's drive through the Virginia countryside.

Yahweh had always been conceived as powerful and ruthless in war — even brutal from the standpoint of later ideals — but he had been virile, austere, and chaste.

Austere as well as paternal, authoritative and kingly as well as merciful and gracious, terrific in judgment against selfishness, cruelty, and sham as well as forgiving to outcasts and prodigals, Jesus» God was revealed not so much in the words he used about him as in the life he lived with him.

Against such a backdrop (the bar's website describes its vibe as, «all bells, no whistles»), the super-simple rocks, Collins, and highball glasses the bartenders use to serve drinks feel almost austere.

Gov. Cuomo was adamant that his inaugural be an austere event as a matter of sensitivity during a difficult economic climate.

Labour's left is in despair at an acting leadership that it regards as needlessly austere.

Now my own view is more pragmatic, and points to why the term austere is not a mood affiliating term as Tyler uses it — a term evoking mood without a context.

To mathematicians, great theorems and great proofs, such as Euclid's elegant proof of the infinity of primes, have about them what Bertrand Russell described as «a beauty cold and austere,» akin to the beauty of great works of sculpture.

«Many diseases, such as Ebola, severe sepsis, dengue, and others are thought to put survivors at increased risk of persistent health problems, but further research is needed,» said Dr. Danielle Clark, lead author on the paper and deputy director of the Austere Environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes at the Naval Medical Research Center.

So long as it's stylishly austere, it seems, it's minimalist.

Something that we often see in the landscape of stores with a gorgeous curation of unique objects and clothing is a very austere and sort of standoffish attitude, as if the store and the products themselves are so beautiful that they are extremely exclusive.

The building's elegantly restrained colonial architecture, the gray sky, the stately camera movement and music all convey an austere gravity, which, together with Schrader's use of Academy ratio (inspired, he has said, by Pawel Pawlikowski's «Ida»), point us back not only to an earlier era of American religion but also to such European cinema models as Bergman's «Winter Light» and Bresson's «Diary of a Country Priest.»

Mother Haloran presides over the austere gathering under black umbrellas, just as the original ceremony was conducted in the rain, a very effective touch.

In effect reprising his role from Peter Weir's 2003 swashbuckler «Master and Commander», the ever - reliable Bettany plays Darwin as a kindly fusspot who discovers that his austere view of death as an essential cog in the machinery of natural selection has the potential to outrage those who find consolation in an afterlife of clouds, angels and spiritual exoneration.

The film looks austere and serious, rather as if it had been shot inside a Frigidaire, and the oppressiveness of the images tends to strangle laughter, even at the most absurd excesses of Alvin Sargent's script.

For a time, the stakes and the peculiarity of the situation arrest our attention, and so does the austere beauty of dawn as seen through the trees or the orange mist of candlelight in an old, dark house.

The resulting images have a solidity CGI could never achieve, and the rich classical score heightens the sense of austere beauty as the earth explodes to life onscreen.

It's such a psychological high - wire act, unfolding with such austere formal commitment (usually in claustrophobic, locked - off medium - shot interiors) as to become almost unbearable, but if Chastain's is the titanic performance, Farrell's is the iceberg on which Julie wrecks herself — all the more lethal for how much is concealed.

The film feels as detached as Hirohito, somehow mistaking austere objectivity with sententiousness.

«Le Cercle Rouge,» done with all Melville's chaste classic style and austere Bressonian rigor, was shown in the Jean Renoir Theater on Friday, April 28, as part of a celebration of Melville's centenary.