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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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These pictures, Roland considered, seemed somehow more real as well as more austere , because they were photographs.
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Today his message is more austere , more profound and more iconoclastic than ever.
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Their dress seemed more austere , both in its cut and in the absence of embellishment.
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The room is much as he imagined it would be, though perhaps even more austere .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cold, austere woman
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an austere style of painting
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Students ate in an austere hall built by New England Puritans.
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The crematorium chapel was cold and austere .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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August was reserved for Henderson House, where Grandmother Robinson presided with austere benevolence.
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Before the coarse brown fabric hung an austere gibbet, constructed of two weathered wooden beams.
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Greene chose the life of an émigré, had an austere dedication to the life of the writer, avoided all publicity.
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He later developed austere personal habits, his brother recalled.
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It's a very austere movie, filmed largely in semi-darkness and featuring a morose baroque soundtrack.
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On the opposite wall, a print was mounted; an austere graphic design, white and grey to match.
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Then she would do housework, but it was such an austere cottage that there was hardly anything to do.
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These strict and prudish ideals were those of the austere Hejaz merchants.