| 单词 | austere |
| 例句 | I laid Helena on a bench in an austere hallway bright with electric light, and two of the policemen searched my knapsack. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Islands rose out of the steel harbor waters with sheer cliff sides, reaching to uneven summits, and crowned with austere, soaring firs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The set consists of the future, which will be sparsely furnished, but will contain a good many cylindrical black columns and several austere flights of stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The room she so seldom left was austere; had the bed been made, a visitor might have thought it permanently unoccupied. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dedicated, austere life could not be thus explained—she was the daughter of a solidly comfortable, erudite banking family. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I nearly swooned in the mill and flow of Stanleyville—people, cars, animals in the street, the austere gaze of windows in the tall concrete buildings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it was back to Paris to work on the peace treaty ending the war, an experience that generated his lifelong enmity toward Franklin, who found him insufferably austere and obsessively diligent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In Campbell, agents stopped at the austere house of Bryan’s uncle and aunt. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Like my parents, Mr. Pirzada took off his shoes before entering a room, chewed fennel seeds after meals as a digestive, drank no alcohol, for dessert dipped austere biscuits into successive cups of tea. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I grow out my high school bangs and pin my hair back off my face, hoping to look austere. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He and Tessie were stationed at Pearl Harbor, where they lived in austere marital housing and where my mother, at twenty-five, got a terrible sunburn and was never seen in a bathing suit again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When none of them raised objections, Father Olufemi gave an austere nod. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The hall was as it had always been, grey and silent and austere, with the portraits and the weapons on the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Quick, quick, through the barrier,” said Mrs. Weasley, who seemed a little flustered by this austere efficiency. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Unlike the austere walls of the corridor, this room mimicked the architecture of Weep, with columns supporting an ornamental entablature and soaring, fan-vaulted ceiling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The contrast of this laughing, luxuriant beauty with the clear-cut, austere grandeur all around arrests the attention sharply. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He had often felt its austere approach before; when it came, it burst in without subtlety, evidently unable to wait. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z General Dreedle waited in austere silence until the car door slammed and then demanded, “Which one is this ?” Colonel Moodus checked his roster. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As she patted the dog’s head, bending with native grace before his young and austere master, I saw a glow rise to that master’s face. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His austere, shiny face, inscrutable and imposing, reminded me of my father. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so plain and austere, very different from most West Side houses, with their gaudy furniture and show-off decorations. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical.... Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Its austere emptiness made her nervous; she wished he had pictures or books or Russian dolls that she could look at. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And they took an austere view of the visual. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It is common, among the nonpoor, to think of poverty as a sustainable condition—austere, perhaps, but they get by somehow, don’t they? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew another sunlight on our hill, and the silence made it harder, more austere. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The High Hall of the Arryns was long and austere, with a forbidding cold-ness to its walls of blue-veined white marble, but the faces around him had been colder by far. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I like Dusting best, for its undeniable logic and a certain kind of austere beauty. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Repetitive, rhythmic, regular, austere, this was a conveyer belt of a chemical, the nylon of the biochemical world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was startlingly austere—some dried noodles, one bag of rice, raisins, coffee, salt, a good supply of candy bars, and toilet paper. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The same family portraits glared down at her, but now they seemed smug rather than austere. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The school sprawls atop Serra’s eastern cliffs like a colossal vulture, a jumble of austere buildings enclosed by a black granite wall. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Out went the ornate bric-a-brac, the austere furniture carved with the family crest. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignatius mumbled, looking at the austere little calling card. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From the walls, the painted eyes of former Directors seemed to follow him, their faces austere, their lips unmoving. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was a more austere version of Riverdale, a far cry from my Bronx neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It was impossible to tell if she was old or young, but her expression was austere and compassionate, and both Will and Lyra felt as if she knew them to their hearts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Even the name had an austere Anglican cadence, to my ear at least, which yearned hopelessly for England and was dead to the sweet dark rhythms of the little mission towns. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Hazel drew a tiny fort in the middle of the page—an austere palace framed by four tall turrets. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She wanted to stay with him, that was all she wanted—even here, in this austere place. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Almost literally ripped from his mother’s arms and dumped in more austere surroundings at such a tender age, this scarred him mentally for life, although no unkindness was intended. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Even by the austere standards of the Appalachian Trail, this was grim. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the first image of this production might be thought of as a latter-day variation on Wood’s 1930 portrait of a farmer with a pitchfork and his austere wife. Review: ‘Man From Nebraska’ Delivers a Midlife Crisis of Faith 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Its visual style, said Payne, is "as austere as the lives of the people who inhabit the story". Cannes comes down to earth with depression-era movie Nebraska 2013-05-23T17:48:51Z Whether shooting Antarctica or New Mexico’s White Sands, Sliter displays an austere style and an eye for rippling patterns drawn by wind or meltwater and underscored by shadows. Review | In the galleries: A virtual visit to Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Lewis’s large “Opus XII,” is similarly austere, with glimmers of orange and blue beneath a sand-colored surface. In the galleries: The Washington Color School on show Mary Testa and Mallory Portnoy, is a starkly different creature: aurally rich and gorgeous, visually austere and glamorous — and utterly aloof from its audience. A Bold Concert of Songs and a Potent Play Leave Audiences Abuzz 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The Dardenne brothers, twice winners of the top prize at Cannes, practice an austere and democratic style of realism. ‘Two Days, One Night,’ From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It nearly tripled the high estimate at $3.2 million despite its more austere palette and small size. Auctions: Fortune Smiles on Abstract Art 2011-11-10T12:00:07Z I'm not sure if he's even very interesting, but he is hugely constant and essential, like some immovable piece of austere parental furniture. World Cup 2010: Something comforting about return to the BBC fold 2010-06-23T20:16:00Z Rigorous, austere, punctuated by bizarre and lurid touches, “First Reformed” marked the return of a master, collaborating with an actor at the very top of his game. Best movies of 2018: ‘Roma’ is intimate, epic and the year’s finest 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Reed Krakoff is nurturing an image for his brand: austere, elegant with sumptuous fabrics treated lightly. Fashion Review: As New York Fashion Week Ends, a Crisis of Identity 2012-02-17T17:58:42Z It was all rather austere for Mr. Marriner, and his work fell out of favor among many musicologists, if never with the general public. Neville Marriner, who led renowned Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z “Slow down, now we’ve grown, let’s start new,” they sing, over the kind of austere percussive atmosphere that made their music so arresting in the first place. Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran Up the Ante, and 13 More New Songs 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z As you say, there's this of image of Orwell as this austere socialist, and obviously in "1984," which is his most famous book, it really focuses on Big Brother. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z It also has a restrained, almost austere visual style that makes a lot of use of black and white. A more honest Iraq War story looks like this: “Sometimes the Marine Corps kind of sucks” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z That’s a refreshingly unexpected tack, and it results in the most sophisticated and austere verses of Wale’s career — even though the album’s conceptual thrust doesn’t always move in the same direction as the music. At top of charts, Wale feels underrated — not that there’s anything wrong with that 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z It recently changed its title, adding The Big Build, probably for much the same reasons Property Ladder felt compelled to do so and now has a tone more in tune with our austere times. Property shows: room for improvement? 2011-08-10T13:27:22Z Alongside the "traditional fare" at King's this year is Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara's specially commissioned anthem called Christmas Carol – an austere work in four-part harmony that takes the wise men as its subject. The music that makes Christmas 2010-12-16T23:30:00Z And her austere demeanor — every time Ted refers to her colloquially as “Doc,” she corrects him with “Doctor” — offers a sharp contrast with the show’s usual parade of jokes and genial aphorisms. Sarah Niles Needed ‘Ted Lasso,’ Too 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Catholics were abandoning the austere parish church; a 1971 photograph in The Catholic Witness showed an outdoor mass in Pennsylvania. Broadway Revival of ?Godspell? 2011-11-04T14:59:10Z Penn used the same austere style for all his subjects, shooting them with a bank of lights coming from one direction in raw, unfinished studios with wires running across the floor. An Irving Penn Portrait for the Coldest Days of Winter 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Although these sculptures pay tribute to commercialism, they rarefy it to something austere — or at least as austere as anything with pulsing green lights can be. Review | In the galleries: More than just selfies, more than just photos 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z They have compiled a baby book filled with photographs — her first subway ride; Silvia wearing an austere brown outfit that Mr. Hoylman thinks makes her look like a Holbein painting. In New York, a Push for Compensated Surrogacy 2014-02-19T21:59:45Z He opened it with skeletal acoustic-guitar songs: brief melodies that he sang in a thoughtful, private voice, threaded through austere patterns of plucked and trilled notes, backed by a percussionist tapping a calabash. Music Review: Bombino at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2011-11-30T23:18:27Z It can sound like the austere brass of ceremony or the deafening silence left by those we’ve lost, the space we save for memory. In ‘Unknown,’ a composer and a poet offer new perspectives on war and 100 years of soldiers with names lost to time 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z I’ve been vegan for seven years and I’m the first to admit couscous is austere, especially when eaten three meals in a row after a 16-hour stint in the fridge. 'We tenderly drop the vibrator into the bin': how I Marie Kondo'd my whole life 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z He released a statement last night expressing satisfaction with the price in such "austere" times. Picasso, Manet and Matisse - auctions revel in Europe's richest art sales 2010-06-23T23:27:00Z But his manhandling of songs from “Porgy and Bess,” performed here in a duet with Bridgewater, was so broad and over-the-top that I began to long for Austin’s more austere presentation. 'To Ella With Love' a missed opportunity at Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Would you rather live for 50 years in austere, dangerous conditions, or spend a brief but glorious time free of regret and consequences? It gets … worse: what can we learn from movies set in 2021? 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z It’s a series of performance vignettes filmed at the Roden Crater, James Turrell’s austere Land Art project in the Arizona desert. Kanye West, Heretic by Nature, Finds God 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Its sunglasses were austere, with just a hint of cheekiness. Critical Shopper: The Sun Is Beside the Point When Shopping for Sunglasses 2013-07-24T18:35:01Z As should this unique red blend and a classic, austere rosé of pinot noir from the Finger Lakes. Fire up the grill and uncork this $15 French malbec for a fabulous pairing 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z But the audience at Klein's BBC2 session was left with a picture of a bleak and austere future for the channel. BBC4's £5m budget cut 'will not break the channel' 2012-08-25T10:42:53Z Perhaps that stark, enigmatic, austere film tapped into a side of Karina that did not interest Godard: a kind of religious mystery. Anna Karina: an actor of easy charm and grace whose presence radiated from the screen | Peter Bradshaw 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Program 3 of the Festival of 21st-Century Choreographers on Thursday was fairly austere, notable for its impressive musical range, with several scores commissioned by City Ballet. Dance Review: New York City Ballet With a Dose of the Underworld 2014-05-02T23:04:16Z And Mr. Atkins played a live set on Saturday afternoon in his austere, minimal duo with Mr. Von Oswald, the German techno producer. Made in Detroit, Differing Music Models 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z With its granite and cream tiles and bare walls, the room exuded an austere aesthetic. An Edinburgh Hotel With a Boutique Sensibility (on Steroids) 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z The daily labor of preparing food is elevated to an austere, unembellished, ceremonial place. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Rutter’s main goal is to see whether she can bring the kind of intimacy and excitement that dominates Chicago’s Orchestra Hall to the austere, impersonal, monumental spaces of the Kennedy Center. New president Deborah Rutter is Kennedy Center’s breath of fresh air from Windy City Nadine Shah’s low, tremulous voice is made for brooding — especially with the austere, incantatory backups she prefers, often revolving around her sparsely chorded electric guitar and an unswerving drumbeat. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z It exemplifies an admirable erudition, precision and devotion to the collection, but also a tendency toward the cerebral and austere, visible in many temporary exhibitions of recent art here. MoMA Takes On the ’60s in a Welcome Shakeup of the Permanent Collection Galleries 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z In the 1960s he was one of the founding figures of minimalism, and his stark, bracing canvases were lodestars of an austere new abstraction. A Survey Shows How Frank Stella Knocked Abstraction Flat, Then Sent It Flying 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “Suspects,” whose five-episode first season goes online at Acorn TV on Monday, is in the category of the austere, modest, realistic police procedural. Review: ‘Suspects,’ Britain’s Unscripted Relative of ‘Law & Order’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Behind a bare platform, austere photographic images were projected on a translucent screen, suffusing a stark black-and-white world in swirls of ambiguous gray. Music Review: In Philadelphia, an Operatic Portrait of a Stepmother for the Ages 2011-06-05T22:02:22Z It offers more than 500 pages of austere modern furnishings styled in mausoleum-like settings where, it appears, nary a coffee cup dare tread. The art of holiday catalogues: Selling the $300 ax you never knew you wanted 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Assuming the throne in ankle-length cream chiffon with gold trim, our heroine attracts the attention of Hironao Takahashi's austere Caesar, melting his heart and loins with her bedroom eyes and sultry, snaky arabesque. Cleopatra; Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:20Z This is not exactly an austere “Ring,” but it is a “Ring” for a time of austerity. Music Review: A ‘Ring’ Fit for a Time of Austerity 2012-07-17T12:00:00Z It’s rich and honeyed, full of that unmistakable southern German grain character, with a long, almost austere bitter finish. Bamberg, Germany: A city of just 70,000 people but nine breweries 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The Victorian-era costumes are detailed and elaborate, a contrast with the austere settings, often flooded in harsh frontal lighting. ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z It is a tall and austere spectacle, like Lincoln, who penned the first drafts of the Emancipation Proclamation here as the evening sky crackled with cannon fire. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Bronze Hitler busts of various sizes crown austere pedestals. Berlin exhibition views Hitler's hold on Germans 2010-10-14T15:31:00Z It’s his most accomplished one yet, with the sweet romanticism and austere cool of new wave cut through with slashes of emotional, social and political sorrow. Dev Hynes: New York’s Last Bohemian on the City and His New Album 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Industry experts link the trend to the economic climate: in austere years, viewers want comforting television. Call the Midwife returns amid gentle rise of warm-hearted TV 2013-01-18T17:14:12Z Youthquake moments tend to emerge from austere and dark periods in history. This Is the Summer the Youth Own New York 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z What is it about Mr. Pärt’s quiet, austere compositions that stirs such passions? Diverse Disciples Flock to an Arvo Pärt Tribute 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The mixed bag of acts — a little something for everybody — filled the austere, blond-wood auditorium with a warm and surprisingly optimistic community spirit despite the nation’s uncertain political future. 'Vote or Die Laughing': Culture Clash fires off the jokes as fast as Hillary and Donald trade insults 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they’re two-dimensional, I will do them. Charles Dance on Tywin Lannister's death and Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The best are clean and powerful—austere images that use contrasting beams of light and shadow to create powerful, brooding compositions. The Rivalry Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Sister Ida 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Her melodies are long-breathed and deliberate, sung with calm determination, while the arrangements, largely constructed by Mitski and her longtime producer Patrick Hyland, veer between austere, exposed meditations and perky, danceable propulsion. Mitski Steps Back Into the Darkness 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Sound Central was something new in a deeply conservative Muslim country where music was banned under the austere Taliban regime. Afghans rock at first music festival in three decades 2011-10-01T18:04:05Z Later, I headed to the village school, an austere building where her old classroom has been transformed in an early 20th-century scene. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In books of the 1920s and ’30s — the Golden Age — one can experience the calm of austere intellection, observe the restoration of order after chaos. Review | Locked-room masterpieces from Japan are the perfect escape for summer 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Browne’s vision of a nun’s habit is austere and refined and incorporates black mink. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The show concentrates on the more austere side of his sensibility, which is most evident in his nonurban scenes. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Billie Whitelaw, the English actress who became both acolyte and muse to the playwright Samuel Beckett and one of the foremost interpreters of his austere and deeply unsettling work, died on Sunday in London. Billie Whitelaw, Longtime Beckett Muse, Dies at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It was a vestigial remnant of craft, hand and eye in a world that increasingly wanted the streamlined, often austere “objectivity” that the photograph seemed to offer. Review | Illustrating the guilty: James Earl Ray, Jean Harris, Charles Manson 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Leopold’s court observed the Calvinist faith, a liturgically austere branch of Protestantism that prohibited elaborate music in its church services. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Wailes’ austere maternal manner is especially effective in the final act, when her character has to teach Emily the ropes of another phase in the human journey. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse populate 'Our Town' with fresh faces 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Concrete pillars ascend to the heavens; a kaleidoscope of rainbow light, from the 12,768 panes of glass created by artist Marguerite Huré, reflects on the austere walls. ‘Once visitors arrive, it’s easy to seduce them’: Le Havre celebrates its 500th year 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The fundamentals of her style are unchanged: the austere beauty of her singing; the grace and propulsion of her fingerpicking; the drones that underscore both Indian ragas and pensive British folk. Review: On Laura Marling’s ‘Short Movie,’ Songs of Restlessness and Solitude 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The austere Nobel laureate's 1961 drama requires an actress to spend the better part of two hours talking almost incessantly while planted in a hole in the ground atop a godforsaken mound of dirt. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z While the austere dissonance never truly leaves the piece, Ehnes' light touch on the rising and falling violin arpeggios sounded like someone throwing a single thread of spider web over the moon. Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival presents concert of darkness, light 2011-07-28T19:25:04Z In the Renaissance, some Protestant denominations, such as Scotland’s austere Kirk, high-mindedly “declared all of Christmas a nasty popish invention and banned the holidays entirely.” Review | Christmas: Holy day, holiday or nostalgic wish? 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z More visual than literary, “Chocolat” is at once open and elliptical, austere and vivid. ‘Chocolat’: What France Knew 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z It can be useful, giving clues about the style of the wine, whether it may contain residual sugar, taste ripe and fruity or fall more on the austere side. 20 Under $20: Beckoning Bottles in the Dead of Winter 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s easy to drink, maybe a touch austere in a good way, with aromas and flavors of pressed flowers, apricot and stones. 10 Reasons You Should Give Riesling Another Look 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z He is, in fact, a more austere, abstract, hermetic, “difficult” artist in drawing than in sculpture, and this narrowness sometimes accentuates his penchant for bombast and opacity. Art Review: Sketches From the Man Of Steel 2011-04-14T22:01:21Z A couple years ago, we did a blind tasting of Tablas Creek with a Perrin Rhone wine - it was a great way to contrast the fruit-forward California style with the relatively austere French. Your Next Lesson: California Grenache 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The more austere, subdued style was inspired by the philosophy of an influential Belgian designer. A Colonial home marries high-end design with laid-back style 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Charles Dance is a man for austere seasons in Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek – TV review 2013-04-02T06:00:03Z Afterwards, in the late Prom, a sequence of Bach and austere late Stravinsky provided the perfect palate-cleanser. Proms 24 & 25: BBCSSO: London Sinfonietta 2010-08-05T10:57:00Z It shares with some of Malamud’s work a certain reserve, an austere simplicity, and an intense engagement with questions of moral decision. Favorite Books of 2014 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z This version came near the end of a festival week that has properly reflected Thompson's character: modest, inspiring, occasionally austere, but full of unexpected mischief and delight. Richard Thompson's 1,000 Years of Popular Music 2010-06-21T12:33:00Z There are flyers in the shape of candy bars, detergent boxes, and dollar bills, printed in eye-catching neon or in austere black-and-white. The Intoxicating Promise of New York City’s Night-Life Flyers 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Following their lead, we drove up the short, steep road from the Grenoble area to the austere cemetery in Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte where soldiers and Resistance fighters lie under fine gravel. Her uncle died with the French Resistance, and she had to visit the spot 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Singer Billy Bragg described the 1951 festival as a beacon "in a very dark, austere decade between the end of the war and the birth of rock 'n' roll." London celebrates Festival of Britain, 60 years on 2011-04-21T17:16:04Z In her wrenching, austere, bleakly comic works, the world — interior and exterior — is always, already burning. Review: ‘Crave’ Is a Timely Ticket for a World on Fire 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Since the austere painter of rural scenes Andrew Wyeth is gone, and Warhol is gone, I suppose Neiman may have been the most famous artist in America when he died. LeRoy Neiman was a famous artist, not a great one 2012-06-21T11:32:15Z To appreciate fully the richness and liveliness of Hellenic culture, look past the stock images of austere men in togas and the sun-bleached ruins of Athens. 'Clash of the Titans': Ancient Greece and Us 2010-03-19T20:01:00Z Perhaps that’s why, despite the austere beauties of the movement, it was hard to focus on the dance itself, or feel the piece as a coherent whole. Review: At the Royal Ballet, a Landscape and Soundscape With Dance 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Farrukhsiyar, shown here in an austere watercolor with rich patterns and gold accents from around 1715, was imprisoned, starved, blinded with a hot needle and strangled. Art Review: ?Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi? at Asia Society 2012-03-08T22:18:28Z That Martin was there to arrange the larger ensembles has always been noted—what is not noted frequently enough is how brilliant, austere, and original his arrangements were. George The Fifth 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Like the earlier “Aure,” it’s a naturalistic work that unfolds with a kind of austere purity, building delicate details into a work of huge, elemental power. Koh shines in luminous works by Ravel, Debussy and Saariaho 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The physical production is austere, with little in the way of scenery beyond a constellation of light bulbs. Review: Waltzing With Love and Death in ‘Hundred Days’ 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The piano goes even farther back than the drums for Mr. DeJohnette, whose style on “Return” is austere but sonorous, with viscosity in his touch and use of pedal sustain. Review: Jack DeJohnette’s ‘In Movement’ and ‘Return’ Show Sweep 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z They spring from the ground like an austere garden of blueprints. Melania Trump’s White House Christmas decorations are a monochromatic wonderland 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z This audience sat in nearly unbelievable rapt attention focused on Ma as each musically complex and austere six-movement suite followed suite. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Hitchcock's "Psycho" house was inspired by Edward Hopper's austere 1925 painting "House by the Railroad," depicting the gloomy facade of a Second Empire-style structure. The 'Psycho' house on the Met's roof is cool, but can it outweird Hitchcock's at Universal Studios? 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Their “Perversion Therapy” is not austere or coercive. In the galleries: Strangely familiar objects for the eyes and ears 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Last spring, the artist Hope Gangloff arrived in the austere marble atrium of Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center — and set up a makeshift art studio. In the Studio With an Artist Who Paints in a ‘Color Trance’ 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Almost any recording of “Winterreise” will convey its lonesomeness and austere beauty. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “Monumentum Pro Gesualdo” and “Movements for Piano and Orchestra,” two ballets that formed the program’s centerpiece, along with “Duo Concertant,” are extreme examples of Balanchine and Stravinsky’s ability to home in on austere beauty. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z There is a reason so few museums are designed as high-rises: Tall buildings with relatively few windows can look austere and imposing. What a Museum Wants to Be in the 21st Century 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Maybe too assured, since it’s so austere and pared down of inessentials that one sometimes wishes for the more poetic flourishes that this artist is capable of. | 'Horsedreams': ?Horsedreams,? at the Rattlestick Theater - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:40Z The sunlit meditation hall at the Shambhala Center in downtown Manhattan is usually reserved for serious Buddhist practice — austere contemplation, the silent cultivation of wisdom, deliberate reflection on the world’s fundamental impermanence. Looking for Buddhist Wisdom in ‘The Princess Bride’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The album announces its austere palette from the start with “Rattlesnake”: just a bass line played on an unidentifiable, fuzz-edged instrument, Ms. Clark’s exposed voice and, soon, a funk beat punctuated by layered guitar chords. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z “I don’t see myself as a fashion designer,” he said, explaining his restless pursuit of things streamlined and austere. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z Zen is the most purified and austere tradition in Mahayana Buddhism, and “Mind Over Matter” brings out more than 50 objects from the Freer’s rich collection of Zen art, one of the largest outside Japan. The Lessons of Nothingness From Maverick Zen Monks 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z In a long, windowed hallway, Kwong narrows her focus back to Chinese medicine, lining two narrow pools with austere blossoms, almost all of them white, whose roots are said to have cancer-fighting or antioxidant properties. Orchids Take Their Star Turn at the New York Botanical Garden 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z If Rearray is an austere and perhaps even astringent spectacle, it is a profoundly beautiful one. Sylvie Guillem: 6000 Miles Away ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:05Z The festival, whose roots lie in a tradition of carnal indulgence before the austere Roman Catholic season of Lent, officially ends next Wednesday. Carnival lights up Rio despite crime wave, yellow fever scare 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Visually austere and narratively clotted, “Ad Astra” tends to work best in isolated scenes rather than in the aggregate. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z A rectangular frame onto which this scrap-metal pioneer welded a few objects — a triangle in the shape of a waving pennant, the heel of a pipe — is self-conscious and austere. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Always Growing, and Open to Change About 20 men and women assembled in a ballet studio in Chinatown on a recent Monday evening to rehearse a sequence of austere and meticulously choreographed movements in silence. Make Music New York’s Main Act Is Cardew’s ‘Great Learning’ 2013-06-20T22:28:32Z The fashion reviewers at Style.com describe his recent and less-sinister creations as “severe,” “austere” and “ecclesiastical” — an upbeat assessment considering his enthusiasm for bitmap skulls. Playful and Sleek, With Subversive Twists 2010-08-02T14:35:00Z It sounds rather austere, but actually it was anything but. June Tabor: watery, not grave 2011-02-10T22:30:01Z Similarly the a cappella music consists of Shaker hymns, but Mr. Solari has harmonized and arranged them in ways foreign to austere Shaker practice. Dance: ?Angel Reapers,? About Shakers, Returns to New York 2011-11-27T05:00:12Z Its vibe is informal but focused and a bit austere: No food or drink is served, and there is hardly room inside for socializing before or after performances. The Stone, an Influential Music Space, to Move to the New School 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Despite its a cappella spareness and its sacred character, this music is in no way austere. Music Review: Musica Sacra at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle ? Review 2011-10-16T22:47:40Z It was an oddly funny detail in an austere work that explored the notion of repercussions. Dance Review: An Afternoon of Aggressive Hair and Forlorn Boots 2011-06-13T22:20:43Z As the austere pulse sounds, the dancers briskly dash through patterns, where lines turn into circles and back into lines, swirling on the stage like mist that then dissipates. Dance Review: Ending Up All Alone, and Making It Beautiful 2011-07-22T22:01:27Z “The Other Side” carries its weight loosely, never sounding too sleek or too austere. The Playlist: Eminem’s Surprise ‘Venom,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The other two playlets are nearly as austere. Review | One actress commands the stage in Scena Theatre’s ‘The Beckett Trio’ 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The austere German director is more than qualified. Who should direct Donald Trump: the Movie? Step forward, Werner Herzog 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z But in an austere environment, knives would seem to be too precious to use as projectiles. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 14: Did the War Just Start? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z As usual, some of the assorted found objects, industrial materials and assisted ready-mades are fairly dependent on the austere gallery setting to be recognized as art. Art in Review: ‘Conspicuous Unusable’ 2013-08-08T20:17:18Z The arrangement of the dogs creates an austere setting for Mr. Rawls, who displays different shades of his personality within a solipsistic existence. Dance Review: Parallels at Danspace Project 2012-02-11T00:50:09Z Bellini’s orchestra is subtle and sensitive, but austere enough that this opera’s stakes are purely vocal. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z While Schönwerth’s style is generally austere, it does occasionally admit poetic phrases and flourishes. A newly discovered trove of unknown fairy tales: ‘The Turnip Princess’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Maybe none of this sounds forbiddingly austere, but if it does, consider the many points of intersection that “A Man Escaped” has with “Escape From Alcatraz,” one of the top-grossing movies of 1979. Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z That would be a help on return visits, as the austere store, which opened a year ago, primarily carries small foreign brands with limited or no other American distribution, with new lines added regularly. Critical Shopper: A Place of Mystery and Elixirs 2011-02-01T22:39:07Z And in the title role, which is often merely incidental, Mr. Page impresses with the elegance of his delivery and the austere dignity of his character. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Springsteen followed with an austere acoustic set — just the man, his guitar and his gravitas. For the troops on Veterans Day, rough-edged reverence on the Mall Anastasi’s brilliance was to use both the tufo bricks and the quarries, creating new ruins with modern amenities, gardens and terraces, open to air and sea — an austere luxury, like an Olympus for nouveau gods. T Magazine: Stone Soul Picnic 2011-05-20T16:28:24Z The treatment is as austere and rarefied as the subject – don't expect any TV-style docudrama. This week's new films 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z His frequent collaborator Mark Ping Bin Lee is responsible for the sumptuously austere cinematography, consisting entirely of long takes in interiors. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z For that matter, the upmarket clientele in the Midtown Village enclave casually referred to by all as the Gayborhood looked anything but austere. A Four-Day Feast in Philadelphia 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z “He’s more austere, minimal. He’s capable of thinking out of being British.” Breaking the Curse of the It Bag 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Morrison, for one, is impressed with the range of Wegner’s work, from the frenetic pace and saturated look of “Zola” to the languid, austere shots of “Power of the Dog.” Ari Wegner: A Cinematographer Who Knows Actors Down to the Eyelash 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Coetzee is usually cast as a cold, austere and cerebral writer; a South African Beckett, gloomily preoccupied with the operations of power and desire. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z Her aforementioned one-liners remain as astute as they are austere, the wisdom she shares just as relatable. The Essays Are Personal. The Truths Are Universal. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But there is something captivating about the spare, flowing lines that form Cin Ali's toothpick of a body, the personification of Turkey's austere past. Turkey struggles to preserve childhood cartoon 2012-05-24T06:21:08Z Brief and mystical, this is an extremely austere conclusion to the apocalyptic pilgrimage. Review: ‘The Road,’ by Cormac McCarthy 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But he didn’t joke at all; he was very austere. The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z His parents were aghast when he showed up wearing it, but the maître d’ treated him like a visiting dignitary; from there, Tseng began to assume the austere, mischievous persona that would dominate his art. Tseng Kwong Chi, an “Ambiguous Ambassador” to Life in America 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Capa’s austere portrayal of a vanquished hero harkens back to Homer. Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The festival, whose roots lie in a tradition of carnal indulgence before the austere Catholic season of Lent, officially ends next Wednesday. Carnival kicks off in Brazil despite recession, security woes 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Marshall Moore, the director of Utah’s film commission, dropped in on the relatively austere set back in 2009. They Shoot Movies, Don?t They? The Camera as Star 2011-02-19T00:02:14Z In the desert – as in the equally austere, if chillier, gallery – time seems to slow down. Point Omega by Don DeLillo | Book review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z The dial presents a clean and austere face, reflecting a minimalism common to the Japanese aesthetic. Timepieces That Reflect the Past 2012-11-22T13:07:04Z The austere cornmeal dumpling recipes of previous generations have largely been laid to rest by cooks who opt for sweeter ones made with wheat flour, sugar, baking powder and sometimes eggs. A Beloved Indigenous Dessert Evolves With Each Generation 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z In Edinburgh, church spires and austere towers are “thinking awful Scottish thoughts, or plotting the downfall of reason.” World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z She tired long ago of men staring at her cleavage and now dresses in severe black clothing with high necklines and austere copper accessories that look like machine parts or totemic objects. Just for Tonight, Pretend You Don’t Know Me, O.K.? 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Inside, it's a strange and beautiful place, decorative and modernist, austere and lush. On the white bus to Wythenshawe – council housing by design 2012-05-22T16:16:13Z Such austere proceedings seemed to call for hymnals and incense. | Trendspotting: In Paris, Piety and Purity - Trendspotting 2011-10-05T22:05:25Z This hauntingly austere occasion took place after my schizophrenic uncle, Ken, miraculously found happiness with the nice religious divorcée he first encountered in the glee club of the biscuit factory where he worked. Special Issue: Gay Marriage: A Wedding? Oh, Yes, We Did That, Too 2011-07-22T21:27:18Z Instead, the final product is an unusually austere action film that peaks with an improvised scene in which a real Navy medic examines Mr. Hanks, exactly as she would any other damaged sailor. Filmmakers Embrace Reality, on the High Seas and Beyond 2013-07-17T15:36:51Z Some critics thought that his austere portrayals more authentically reflected Eastern European life than Isaac Bashevis Singer’s did, but Singer, with a leprechaunish charm that leavened his bleakest stories, appealed more to American audiences. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z Vanessa James’s set would at first appear to be a model of austere chic, in pristine black and white. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “I think the Cunningham was kind of austere and technical in their minds — archaic and old-fashioned,” he said. In Cunningham Class, Physical Puzzles and Disciplined Energy 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z As on Parks’s EPs, the music on her album is restrained but far from austere. Arlo Parks Offers Solace Without Illusions on Her Debut Album 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But here, his first solo directorial effort, there’s a more austere approach to the character design to make its exploration of the human longing for the unknown, and not the stylization, the focus. Animation That’s More Than Kids’ Stuff 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Among Newport's grandiose "cottages," Belcourt Castle's eccentricities stand out against its neighbors' more austere origins. Great American Castles 2010-12-10T17:45:00Z At home, however, he leads an austere life alone and suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder and insomnia. Denzel Washington sharpens tools to exact justice in 'Equalizer' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Olsson noted that Gurnah’s tone is “disillusioned and often austere,” but “he is a compassionate observer of the human predicament,” particularly in his portraits of young orphaned people and Black women. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Public entertainment, including music and dancing, is rare in Saudi Arabia because of the kingdom’s austere Wahhabi brand of Islam. Saudi industrial city plans jazz festival as reforms take hold 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z I read all the parenting blogs, from the austere to the zealous, and read books by the experts on how to raise happy, healthy children. Parents, stop hovering! It’s not your job to remove every obstacle from your kids’ paths 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z And if not washed up, it had to be abstract — the more austere, unemotional and geometric, the better. Painting From the 1980s, When Brash Met Flash 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Though it was unnerving at first, Chastain adapted to Lloyd’s extreme minimalism, which is so austere that it can feel almost untheatrical. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z But eventually, after years in this austere and often abusive environment, he joined his mother as an adolescent in Inglewood, Calif. ‘Too African for Jamaica, Too Jamaican for America, Too American for Nigeria’ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z With life in Paris made difficult by World War I, he started experimenting with neutral shades, in particular blacks and grays, as well as with geometric shapes and daringly austere compositions. Electronic Insights Into Matisse?s Technique 2010-07-09T23:15:00Z Can furniture so unforgivingly austere actually be usable? ‘Donald Judd: Specific Furniture’ Review: Designs With Purpose 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z There was I thinking he might be a little austere. Emmanuelle Riva: 'You don't say no to a film like Amour' 2012-11-08T20:00:01Z Tolstoy’s “The Gospel in Brief,” in contrast, emphasizes Jesus’s more austere teachings. Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Her gray hair is austere without being severe, pulled back to reveal an open, oblong face and distinctly Slavic features; her English is accented, precise and sparked with humor. Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw Now there is a bolder big sister: an 80-proof gin also with hints of citrus, but subtly blended with more austere herb and spice components that bespeak gin. Pomp & Whimsy’s Gin Is Perfect for Summer 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The measured pace and Mr. Shirai’s muted, austere visuals capably render the devotion of the employees and owners to a century-old tradition of craftsmanship despite the uncertain future of their business. Tribeca Film Festival: Documentaries Offer a Niche-Pleasing Lineup 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Killip’s photos have an austere beauty to them — such as the image of a man nicknamed “Cookie” purposefully walking through a snowstorm. Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Gradually and almost inexplicably in this lucid, mesmerizing account, the two approaches fuse into a singular strain of austere sound poetry. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Leonard Bernstein, Keller Quartet, Cassandra Miller and More 2013-12-18T18:17:02Z Michael Hersch’s polished “Of Sorrow Born: Seven Elegies,” with its alternating forceful and austere sections, closed with an artfully hushed arrangement of an Orlando Gibbons choral work, played with elegance by the violinist Yulia Ziskel. Philharmonic Players Tackle Solo Works at SubCulture 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z In its youth, it is classically tannic and austere, but given time — often a decade or more — the tannins soften, releasing a gorgeous perfume and flavors often described as licorice, tar, truffles, violets and roses. Wine Review: Barolo 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z This is churrasco, Brazilian barbecue, opulent and austere at once, the meat scarcely adorned and tasting only of itself, salt and fire. Churrasco That Rises Above at Paladar in East Harlem 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The austere and sculptural lilies look far better than the frothy bouquet that had been in the vase before. Was Steve Jobs an Artist? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The movie is as sumptuous in its color photography as it is austere in its mise-en-scène. ‘La Religieuse,’ a Culture War Casualty of 1960s France 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z In step with the music, Mr. Andersen moves into different moods and modes, pastoral with Schubert, leotard-ballet austere with Britten. Dance Review: Ballet Arizona in Ib Andersen?s ?Play? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-23T23:51:31Z You could eat it on its own, but it completes the somewhat austere flavor of the beef from a Piedmontese cattle breed. From Burgers to Sundaes, the Loyal Plays to the Crowd 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Some horror fans may find the film too spare to be scary, but I savored its austere unfussiness. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z His Moonlight Sonata is clean, austere and breathtakingly beautiful. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4; Sonatas No 14 (Op 27, No 2 'Moonlight') and 31 (Op 110) 2011-02-10T21:29:01Z In these austere surroundings, designed by Jones’s longtime collaborator, Stewart Laing, the interactions of the opera’s emotionally wounded, invariably disappointed characters feel bleaker than ever. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Sometimes the results are austere to the point of starvation, as in his bare-bones 50-minute version of Dostoyevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor” several years ago. Theater Review: ‘The Suit’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-21T23:45:57Z Old World touches like antique greenish walls and gold highlights mitigated the austere geometry of the layout. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z This is the second exhibition at Dia’s reopened Chelsea galleries since the long-delayed reopening, and fills two adjacent galleries with sonic installations, one austere and one intricate, one high-pitched and one low-toned. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The setup is austere: During the final stretch of the war, a retreating Nazi platoon happens upon our solitary hero in the barren fields of Finland and steals his gold. ‘Sisu’ Review: Sweat Wicking 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z And Ai Weiwei piled millions of sculpted and painted porcelain sunflower seeds for an austere installation. Sotheby's exhibits contemporary art featuring flowers 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Math met mystery, and you simply surrendered to its austere beauty. In Sukhishvili Georgian Ballet, elegant tradition meets modern energy 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z These austere outposts, most maintained by the United States Forest Service, are scenically located along lakes, atop mountains or on coastal islands. Explorer: Where Alaskan Adventurers Lay Their Heads 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z The pork alone over noodles is almost austere, but a liberal shower of scallions and ginger and sauce pulls it together. ‘Chinatown Kitchen,’ reviewed: I kept going back for more 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z At first this wine seems delicate, even austere, but it quickly takes on a stony, earthy character that lingers on the palate and in the imagination. The warmth of these 5 wines can offset winter’s chill 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Most of “The Taste of Money” takes place in the austere, palatial home of a family whose wealth, influence and corruption approach Borgiaesque dimensions. Movie Review: ‘The Taste of Money,’ Directed by Im Sang-soo 2013-01-25T01:23:02Z Her whole manner is austere: Touchingly tentative transitional moments are followed by others of complete authority as her eyes, hands and arms arrive perfectly in a completed forward gesture into the beyond. Review: The Revelatory Early Works of Lucinda Childs at MoMA 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z But, he adds: "Now both that 1980s look and the austere, minimalist look seem a little backward-looking." Frieze Masters art fair reflects fashion for all things old 2012-10-05T16:20:23Z Her ’60s references were the austere, dowdier ones: Jackie Kennedy in black couture silk for a visit to the Vatican rather than Twiggy stick figures. Fashion Review: Milan Fashion Review: Prada, Versace, Etro, MaxMara 2012-09-21T23:37:54Z His temperament was both more austere and more drawn to plain, pragmatic craftsmanship. Can a Papermaker Help to Save Civilization? 2012-02-17T21:39:00Z First up is “Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture,” the first museum survey of works made of wood by the painter of austere yet sensuous abstractions. The New Season: New Museums: Crystal Bridges Among Anticipated Openings 2011-09-18T04:00:09Z The austere reds, pinks and grays of coyote willow line the banks of the Humboldt River. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z And even in austere times and through adverse weather, there seems little need to tempt visitors to The Hoppings with cheap deals. The Hoppings – the myths and mud of Europe's biggest travelling fair 2012-06-28T06:00:00Z "While we aspired to the lofty and cerebral plane of a quotidian materiality, our unconscious life unraveled with an intensity and melodrama that inversely matched their absence in … our austere sculptural and choreographic creations." Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer 2010-12-24T13:12:31Z The young Iris Murdoch, hard at work in what looks like an austere bedsit, resists this kind of idealisation, staring the camera down defiantly. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z Here's how one diplomatic French journalist phrased it, speaking to a director on the podium: "By making such an austere, rigorous, slow-paced movie, do you not risk boring your audience?" Buzz in short supply at Cannes 2010-05-21T04:06:00Z Despite the urgency of the situation the musicians face, when they’re not doing their work, the movie is quiet, observant, taking in the austere beauty of the land and the people. Review: ‘Mali Blues,’ Making Music in the Face of Jihadists 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z These austere woods are a good place in which to get lost. Paper Gallery: ‘Joe’s Junk Yard,’ by Lisa Kereszi, and More 2012-10-18T21:31:56Z Ms. Reichardt’s plots are blessedly austere, and it is a little too perverse to say that the problem with this modestly scaled movie is that too much happens. ‘Night Moves’ Tracks Three Eco-Terrorists in Oregon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z I can’t recommend this brilliant, austere writer strongly enough; reading her work was like discovering some long lost sister of Muriel Spark’s. Favorite Books of 2014 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z On a more modest scale, there was a rumpled military green option by Mr. Velardi and austere, unstructured ones by L.B.M. Critical Shopper: Carson Street Clothiers — Critical Shopper 2013-05-21T11:44:35Z Christ's scrawniness, and slumped head, hark back to austere 15th century examples by Donatello and Masaccio; his isolation, and the absence of other saints, accords with the Lutheran emphasis on Christ and his passion. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z Rugged, to be sure, sometimes steep, barren and austere, rocky. How to scratch your wine-travel itch when you can’t actually go anywhere 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Rebecca Robertson, the Armory’s founding president and executive producer, compared the glass cube to a building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the 20th-century modernist architect known for his austere steel and glass creations. How Do You Build a Giant Glass Box? Very Carefully 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z As Nate Chinen wrote recently in The New York Times, Mr. Hall’s style, “with the austere grace of a Shaker chair,” has sounded “effortlessly modern at almost every juncture” of his long career. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets, for writing “that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Paintings such as Seurat's "Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy" and Alfred William Finch's "Country Road Near the North Sea" are austere and idealistic visions of scenery. Neoimpressionism exhibit makes points about poetry, music's influence 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z At 72, Bátiz struck a dignified, austere posture, letting his baton arm do almost all the directing in sharp, metronomic strokes. State Symphony of Mexico missing homegrown flavor 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Côte de Lechet is in a cooler area of Chablis and yields a more austere, mineral wine than sunnier vineyards do. 4 French Chablis and a California chardonnay that won’t bore you 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Corvina is the man in charge there; austere, dismissive of Kat, Clay and Neel and angry with Mr. Penumbra for his interest in new technology. 'Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore': down the rabbit hole to magical technology 2012-10-28T14:01:04Z Its gently rounded silhouette harmonized nicely with the collection’s bold patterns and austere shapes. | Sculptural Slip-Ons at Tod’s 2014-02-21T23:02:05Z His own work, however, was less austere, invoking images from the natural world, like birds in flight. Billy Al Bengston, Painter Who Channeled California Cool, Dies at 88 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z This is music for male voices only, accompanied by an ensemble of low strings – five cellos and a double bass – resulting in complex polyphony, austere yet sensuous, over a narrow compass or range. Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet – review 2013-04-16T16:10:34Z Surely, people built the bowling alley in Andrew Moore’s stark yet colorful picture, as well as the highway bridge in Dan Kessmann’s austere landscape. In the galleries: Where did all the humans go? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Even so, Fett enjoys a unique place in the collective psyche of “Star Wars” devotees, who have spent years imagining his further exploits and building an iconography around his austere masked visage. Boba Fett, Intergalactic Man of Mystery 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z None of this was possible in Uris Hall, the business school’s reviled 1964 tower on the Morningside campus, with its austere corridors good only for shunting students from class to class. At Columbia’s $600 Million Business School, Time to Rethink Capitalism 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z She commended Sylvia Plath’s austere poetry, but characterized her suicide as an act of dramatic performance art. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z “Monumentum” is already austere, but its formal grace evokes — as does Stravinsky’s music — much older traditions of classicism. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z The recital reached a high point with the austere, penetrating beauty of Copland’s slow movement, but the usually stirring finale emerged somewhat airless, despite attempts to inject a little breath and charm. A lot riding on Hilary Hahn’s bow at Strathmore 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The shrines themselves are austere and hard to see from the pathways. An hour from packed Kyoto, Nara is an enlightening overnight, including cordial deer 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Korab captured the romance, moodiness and humanity of even the most austere postwar buildings. Balthazar Korab, Architectural Photographer, Dies at 86 2013-01-27T03:33:58Z These are brave and austere choices, but there is no arguing with the results. The Poems in Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Peter Manson - review 2012-06-15T21:55:09Z He emerged in a gold-sequined dinner jacket and began the night with a harmonica solo of “My Love Is Your Love,” the austere Whitney Houston hit. Music Review: D?Banj and Other African Stars at Irving Plaza 2012-02-22T23:24:21Z This harsh portrait was at odds with the grandfather she knew, an austere New Englander “made more approachable by age and the twinkle in his eyes.” An Acclaimed Biographer Takes On Her Grandfather, the Atomic Scientist James B. Conant 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The pictures' style is obviously different — elegant, austere, always statuesque. 'Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium' is an impressive dual-museum overview 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z So the base of the collection was “prettiness,” not such an easy path now that fashion has moved on from girlish froth to austere minimalism. Special Report: Fashion: Life on the Ocean Wave 2010-10-01T18:50:00Z Public entertainment, including music and dancing, is rare in Saudi Arabia because of the kingdom’s austere Wahhabi brand of Islam. Saudi industrial city plans jazz festival as reforms take hold 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Wendy Goodman, the design editor of New York magazine, said Mr. Kagan “understood that modernism does not have to be austere.” Vladimir Kagan, Designer Whose Furniture Evoked Sensuality, Dies at 88 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The gift of being simple has never been widely associated with the Wooster Group, whose austere and profoundly affecting “Early Shaker Spirituals” opened on Thursday night at the Performing Garage in SoHo. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s repressive regime, along with increasing shortages, made the country an austere and unattractive destination for foreign tourists. Romania’s Springs Tap a Region’s Deep History 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “He’s very austere, and I like fooling around with words,” he said in an interview with The New York Times magazine in January. Duchovny and Anderson: The Literary Files 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The flip side of the coin is that the austere music that accompanies all this darkness is often very beautiful. Depeche Mode: Delta Machine – review 2013-03-21T21:00:01Z But deeply religious Gaudí was an austere character: it was left to Jujol, his little-known collaborator, to bring a lightness of touch and humour to many of his most famous works. Gaudí's Catalan shadow: the art of Josep Maria Jujol 2013-06-03T06:00:06Z The imaginatively staged piece, he writes, is “at once austere and flamboyant, campy and menacing,” but “the febrile design team sets up a theatrical promise that is never fulfilled.” Essential Arts & Culture: A wondrous Hedwig, Renaissance music remade, Boyle Heights gallery crimes 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z This Austrian riesling, compared with the Melsheimer, is bone dry, not particularly complex and more austere, with deliciously stony flavors. 20 Under $20: Beckoning Bottles in the Dead of Winter 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z As translated by Victoria Cribb, Indridason’s austere, clear-cut prose coldly reveals “all the disruption the military occupation had brought to this sparsely populated island and its simple society.” Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The American poet Louise Glück was awarded last year’s literature prize for writing “that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” according to the citation from the Nobel committee. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The following week, on the third night of the Republican convention, country star Trace Adkins delivered an austere and sensitive a cappella reading with a stillness that was surprisingly moving. Perspective | A song doesn’t have to scream U!S!A! to be patriotic. Just ask the NFL. 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Still, there are moments in the book where control is lost and reserve overcome, where the human vulnerability of this meticulous and austere artist is revealed. The passions of Elizabeth Bishop 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z This year's 400th anniversary of the death of the greatest of all Spanish composers, Tomás Luis de Victoria, was more than enough reason to devote a late-night prom to his ravishingly austere music. Prom 28: Tallis Scholars/Phillips ? review 2011-08-05T10:34:24Z Even when considering the Suprematist works, the Americans have typically isolated the most austere examples — the black-and-white squares, as opposed to the more colorful arrangements of floating, irregular quadrilaterals at Gagosian. Art Review: It All Started With a Simple Square 2011-03-11T00:05:42Z More austere but just as striking are the “Grey Shed paintings,” whose compositions are intriguingly off-center and whose grays are heathered and silvery. In the galleries: Gunpowder and teddy bears 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Because the illustrations are so austere – they’re black-and-white pencil – I found it very poignant, very striking. The Carpetbagger: For 'Hugo's' Writer, the Surprise Is in Not Failing 2012-02-02T18:30:10Z Photography’s fraught and complicated relationship to the older genre may be too heavy a subject for Mr. Houck’s austere approach. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Today, visitors can tour the Augustinian Monastery and Church, including the austere cell where Luther spent his formative years, and the church where he struggled with theological demons. Visiting Germany’s Lutherland during 500th anniversary 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z No show advertises its desire to be taken seriously — its bid for instant-classic status — as insistently as this visually austere account of the daily lives of Los Angeles patrol officers and detectives. Television Review | 'Southland': Patrolling for Felons and Kudos on Sun-Blinded Streets 2010-03-01T23:21:00Z Forget the receding hairline and the pronounced jawline, which give a false impression of the austere or forbidding. Peter Bazalgette: 'Maybe I don't qualify as great or good' 2013-02-24T00:06:07Z A lot of British films at the time were austere, black-and-white, kitchen-sink dramas. No mid-life crisis for 007 as Bond films turn 50 2012-10-02T15:43:12Z And that’s not surprising: These kinds of grim, austere dramas are more commonly British and Scandinavian. ‘The Missing,’ on Starz: 8-Year Odyssey to Solve a Mystery 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z In a place both lush and austere, alien and homey, full of symphonies of languages and accents, smells and sounds, silence and raucous music, nothing can touch the experience of being there like poetry. Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z This creation is an austere column of ice-pink satin with a ruffle in the shape of a question mark which wraps around the torso on a diagonal. Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z That deliberately retro approach — there’s even some electric sitar — is anything but austere. Review: D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’ 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z "Policeman" is an austere and fatalistic film, a discomforting and despairing look at Israeli society through the parallel examination of subcultures inevitably fated to clash. Israel's austere 'Policeman' makes no compromises 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Born in Norway and based in Los Angeles, this ambitious photographer takes highly controlled portraits and still lifes that mix the erotic and the austere, and that often seem to be dripping with fluids. 5 Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z At first the nasal, twerpy whine deepened and straightened itself out into something breathier and more emotional; then the emotion slowly drained away until he became austere. Music: He Can Sing It, if Not Speak It 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z The films are accompanied by austere wrought-iron benches, linoleum and men’s padded pullovers in a progression of colors. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Inevitably, this leads to the assumption that she will be a remote, austere figure. Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I'd love to write for Holby City' 2013-01-14T18:45:02Z Lest the film’s description sound at once saccharine and morbid, rest assured that “Breathing” is neither an oddball triumph of the human spirit nor another artily austere, stacked-deck entry in withheld redemption. Movie Review: ‘Breathing,’ Directed by Karl Markovics 2012-08-30T23:18:16Z The two main characters—a lonely, ostracized boy and the creepy, bedraggled girl who befriends him—are as somber and mournful as the chilly, austere landscape. Hollywood Goes to Sweden 2010-02-18T17:04:00Z And their new clothes — boxy jackets with turnkey locks, wide-leg trousers in black or terra-cotta suede, austere coats and blazers in a flat rigid crepe — uncannily reflected what they said about home. Fashion Review: Michael Kors, Narciso Rodriguez, Oscar de la Renta, Proenza Schouler 2013-09-12T01:09:28Z Samuel Barber’s “Hermit Songs,” premiered by Leontyne Price and the composer at the Library of Congress, were appropriately austere. Polenzani’s singing and Drake’s piano playing create engaging performance 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Some elements of Mr. Audiard’s style — off-center close-ups, restless camera movements, natural light and naturalistic sound — align him with the strain of austere, somber, ethically engaged European realism that often dominates the film festival circuit. Review: ‘Dheepan,’ About Sri Lankan Refugees, Looks Like a Prophecy 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z He keeps company with Mr. Taft, a rock ’n’ roll and fashion photographer who also happens to have advanced certification in many aspects of emergent and austere medicine. The Gimlet Eye: Heroes Welcome 2010-10-06T21:29:00Z That thought is worth keeping in mind while watching Liv Ullmann’s austere screen adaptation of the play, which has been relocated from Sweden to Ireland during the same period. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Somewhat reclusive, he is known for producing austere, meditative buildings and often works with concrete. Basel’s Beyeler Builds Out for the Future 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In “This,” an austere yet airy dance performed Wednesday at New York Live Arts, there is not just one object, but many. Neil Greenberg at New York Live Arts 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Plants, including nine rose bushes, did their own hard time, surviving austere conditions and neglect. On Alcatraz, the island’s prison gardens are in full flower 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z With a mix of austere focus and emotional fluidity, Mr. Arndt and Ms. Parker deliver every fractional response. Review: ‘Heisenberg,’ With Mary-Louise Parker, Mines the Extraordinary in the Commonplace 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z A meditative journey of almost 2,900km that passes through the austere beauty of southern Siberia. 10 great road trips around the world: readers’ tips 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller, who at least in appearance resembled the austere, technocratic types who populated the Obama administration, took on important, but largely behind-the-scenes roles. The President’s Backup Band 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Because of its austere ingredient list, Depression Cake is also vegan and egg-allergy friendly. Salon Food's top 10 recipes of 2020 all have one thing in common: comfort 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The three-part inventions were played with great rigour, and the poignant E flat piece and the austere E minor invention was distinguished. Angela Hewitt ? review 2010-11-22T22:15:00Z “It’s almost an austere complication,” said Thomas Mao, a management consultant based in Los Angeles and founder of ThePuristS.com, a Web site for watch fans. Special Report: Watches: Complications Turn Perpetual 2010-03-17T20:20:00Z Though “DANCE” challenged audiences at its 1979 premiere — many walked out — its austere, repetitive geometries, synchronized with projected footage of the work’s original cast, have come to feel ageless. All the Ways to Fall for Dance Again Onstage and Beyond 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Kendrick’s appearance invites the possibility of a romantic connection with Christian, but the movie, remaining true to its austere, ultramacho, deeply misanthropic ethos doesn’t allow it. Review: In ‘The Accountant,’ a Savant With Daddy Issues Has a Dark Secret 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The COS clothes, on the whole, are studiously austere and, as often as not, neutral. At COS, No Need for a Passport 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Yet this summer, the elegantly austere room with its recently renovated stenciled ceiling, mahogany wainscoting and bronzed chain curtains hosted the International Contemporary Ensemble during its residence at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Music Wanders the Park Avenue Armory 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z For generations, Alentejo was Portugal’s breadbasket, with an austere beauty and remarkable bounty. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z At Celine, she pared down and refined, ushering in a minimalism that wasn’t dull or austere but cozy and comforting. What Is Lost in Hedi Slimane’s Celine 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z It is above all a military fortress: austere, uniformly gray throughout its granite and limestone walls, and not meant to be invaded. Outside Lisbon, a Verdant World of Castles and Palaces 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z In addition to their austere and elegant high-rise apartment, which Veronica now shares with a fluffy white dog named Olivia, Harry leaves behind an inconvenient debt and access to secrets she’d rather not know. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In that sense, President Biden’s austere wardrobe choices are a throwback. Some Notes on 100 Days of Biden Style 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z A woman would begin her time of mourning in austere black and eventually add a bit of white detail. Grief as a fashion statement in ‘Death Becomes Her’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Early every morning, I'd let myself out the back-garden gate with a key, and walk to the studio of an elderly, austere potter. Edmund de Waal 2011-02-12T11:38:27Z Big though it is, and long though it is, it can have about it a sense of the austere; it is not the composer’s most beloved piece, nor is it all that often performed. Eschenbach and the NSO play Brahms and Tchaikovsky Eerie harmonic layers were built upon the wordless syllables, an austere medieval aesthetic punctuated with colorful contemporary twists. Music Review: John Zorn Performing at Alice Tully Hall 2013-07-19T19:42:03Z There’s an austere clarity to the broth, which is at once more carnal and more delicate. A Soup That Needs No Accompaniment at Just Pho 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z As for the work on display, it encompasses both blown glass and distinctively different kiln-formed glass, and it ranges from austere minimalist fare to cartoonlike whimsy. Aussie-U.S. glass-art ties made clear at Museum of Glass 2013-07-31T22:35:09Z For the first season, the pre-eminent drummer and sometime keyboardist Jack DeJohnette recorded his first solo piano album, “Return,” a collection of gentle but austere compositions, often in a plaintive minor key. Streams? What Streams? For Newvelle Records, Vinyl Is the Future 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z You would like even the most austere, doctrinaire existential movie to earn its downbeat ending. George Clooney off-target in "The American" 2010-09-01T00:04:00Z Can a painting be both austere and opulent? In the galleries: In ‘Gilded,’ artist Takefumi Hori applies Midas touch The show starts with its opening tracks, Welcome to My World and Angel, two of their most austere songs in years. Depeche Mode – review 2013-05-29T14:19:15Z A swaybacked roof side by side with an austere perpendicular brick building: so beautiful. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Staged with brio by Mallory Catlett, “Space” is more streamlined and austere than the company’s previous shows but maintains its madcap humor. Theater Review: ‘Space//Space’ by Banana Bag & Bodice at Collapsable Hole 2012-06-17T22:09:07Z The hospitality of the plains doesn’t always translate to these provincial towns, but there again, tucked beneath an austere tenement block, was a C.B.T. office. Explorer: Deep Into the Dream World of Kyrgyzstan 2014-05-09T19:07:12Z Once in office, however, they governed with the limitations of operating in a two-party system and the public's unwillingness to accept the party's austere anti-government measures. How the Republicans wound up with Trump: E.J. Dionne explains in 'Why the Right Went Wrong' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Washington's austere facade, a facade that Washington himself had ably constructed, was upended by the letters and journals of close aides that documented their leader's seething temper. Ron Chernow receives biography award 2013-05-19T15:16:08Z That twist has to do with the film’s mood and austere visual style. Movie Review: ‘28 Hotel Rooms,’ by Matt Ross, With Marin Ireland 2012-11-16T01:40:55Z Or if a big enough budget is granted in these austere times, why not dig into historical crime, a field in which British mystery writers rule the roost? DCI Banks: the case of the literary TV detectives 2010-09-27T11:46:00Z Blunt, austere percussion — from a booming Japanese taiko drum to the metallic scrape of a knife being sharpened — is layered with neo-medieval wind consorts, modernist dissonances, Minimalist vibraphone patterns and isolated electronics. Playlist: Roots Rock and the Funk of the Firmament 2010-02-19T21:40:00Z Many people also found the modernist office building, with its banks of elevators and austere interior spaces, intoxicatingly beautiful. City planners are increasingly aware of health benefits of clean, living landscapes From its deceptively austere and poetic beginning, “Blind” could take any number of paths. Review: In ‘Blind,’ Perception and Fantasy Converge in a Writer’s Mind 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z At once stately and unassuming, austere and raunchy, “The Woman Who Left” is largely composed of impressively long takes that are most often static medium shots. Lav Diaz and Pedro Costa: Slow Cinema on the Cutting Edge 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z She takes off her shoes, opens a book, and, lying horizontally, perhaps experiences something close to art’s austere sacrality. Collected Poems 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Brown has kept an austere eye on spending as California’s post-recession tax revenue has improved. Jerry Brown moves to modestly improve meager state arts budget 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z And I also think a lot of people on the left think somehow their miserable, austere suffering is what they're offering up. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Seinfeld is an austere performer, coming out in a flawlessly cut suit of an expensive, buttery material. Seinfeld in Seattle: shined shoes, laser focus 2011-10-02T20:42:03Z “Stop haunting me, please,” she begs on the chorus, as the austere, piano-driven arrangement suddenly fills up with an eerie atmosphere. Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The simple lace of the austere Castilian plains undercut the sweetness of a ballerina skirt. 2010-01-05T06:10:00Z Although the subjects are often grave and austere in their hardscrabble circumstances, they are never turned into victims. In Transit Blog: Lewis Hine Spotlighted in Paris Photo Show 2011-09-13T10:00:41Z Even the living quarters are austere, so Desdemona meets her death in a bedroom where the suitcases are piled on the wardrobe. Othello – review 2013-04-23T21:30:01Z Take the Amish quilts, so conservative in their austere symmetrical patterns, which shyed away from the "crazy patchwork" of the early 1900s. Are the V&A's quilts art? 2010-04-14T16:38:00Z Female strength and male hubris feature in films from the Coen brothers’ remake of True Grit to the austere Meek’s Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt. Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The sisters’ differences have only widened since Tahera, now living in Texas, sought sanctuary in an austere form of Islam. In Literary Fiction, Are Capital-P Politics Always at Play? 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z The festival, whose roots lie in a tradition of carnal indulgence before the austere Roman Catholic season of Lent, officially ends next Wednesday. Carnival lights up Rio despite crime wave, yellow fever scare 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z You are absolutely right, because “Dérive 2” is maybe one of the most austere of the big, major works, in comparison with “Répons,” or “Sur Incises” in particular. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Leader Catherine Martin, meanwhile, was the deft soloist in the darker, altogether more austere Concerto in A Minor. Early Opera Company – review 2012-12-20T18:26:27Z Swimwear styles were favoring simple, even austere lines, leaving Mrs. Gottlieb’s colorful creations looking dated. Leah Gottlieb, a Designer of Swimsuits, Dies at 94 2012-11-20T23:23:01Z The work is cerebral and austere, even when Gaines systemically adds vivid color painted on a Plexiglas overlay. Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z And the pig-like emperor ridiculed by Luitprand was so violent and austere in his military methods that he was known as “The Pale Death of the Saracens.” A City Where East Meets West and the Past Is Always Present 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z And because he can look austere – especially when a camera is pointed at him – I had assumed a corresponding angularity of mind. 10 years of Tate Modern 2010-04-24T23:07:00Z The songs on “I See You” no longer insist on the austere minimalism of the band’s first two albums. The xx Lets the Sunshine In 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z And for me, her femininity is important because I was familiar with this idea that she could seem like this sexless, austere, bloodless, lustless sort of shell. Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z By the late 1970s, postmodernist architecture, and its plundering of historical trends, overtook the more austere and orthodox midcentury Modernism. 2010-01-20T06:35:00Z His painting is small, austere in its homemade lamp-black and yellow ochre, but it deafens you like the sudden boom of utter silence. The Canning Stock Route exhibition 2010-08-08T21:29:00Z While the looks adhered to the line's minimalist credo - simplicity and clean lines - there was nothing austere about it. Milan Fashion Week starts on somber note 2013-01-13T00:01:07Z J.T. and the Clouds: This is an outfit that makes austere music of surpassing beauty. Sink your teeth into a better Taste 2011-06-23T11:42:00Z As I delved further and further into the bizarre world of bamboo-fibers and up-cycling, my austere childhood took on an entirely different slant. Why depriving your kids of toys is a great idea 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Arizona’s Democratic mayors lashed out at Ducey for being too lax and imposed more austere guidelines. What’s ‘essential,’ anyway? Roses, guns, manicures, marijuana — it all depends on who’s deciding. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z There were a few moments of truth during Mountain Man’s austere, engrossing performance at the Mercury Lounge on Thursday night. Music Review: The 3 Women of Mountain Man, in Perfect Harmony 2011-08-01T21:27:08Z More often than not, the author’s impulse toward the austere — both thematically and stylistically — proves effective, but a few stories read like sketches, atmospheric and too slight. ‘The Stories of Jane Gardam,’ and More 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z These require multiple climbs above 2,000 metres from deep green valleys, taking the hiker into a high, austere wilderness of ice and rock. Six of the best US national trails – chosen by experts 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Astonished that I managed to get through it; that, in that hot austere space, I was able to transform near sacrilege into sanctity. The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z Near his studio Mr. Ai has created a full-scale model of the austere room in which he was kept for much of his time in detention. Ai Weiwei’s Music Video, Recreating His Detention 2013-05-22T02:00:13Z The spare lines and steady motion of his “Syzygia,” inspired by ancient Greek rhetoric, had an austere, architectural elegance. Music Review: The Many Paths of Japan?s Avant-Garde 2011-04-11T20:27:03Z He renovated the interior to look like an austere stage set, Komanecky said. The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z But with financing up for review in an austere legislative session, and with hopes for the watershed year dashed, the fear is that some state lawmakers may turn off the tap. The Texas Tribune: A Great TV Series Set in Texas? Sorry, You?re Canceled 2011-01-23T05:15:08Z The talk show is an attempt to return to that familiar ground, now that Couric has attempted the austere authority required of a national news anchor. Katie Couric: 'If I wasn't famous, I would go on Match.com' 2012-08-08T23:21:04Z With just 22 works, "Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination" is tightly focused, somewhat austere but nevertheless stunning. 'Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination' at LACMA stuns the senses 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z With her flame red hair and upright posture, it’s not difficult to identify the movie star among the diners, but Chastain is lighter in conversation than her sometimes austere screen presence might suggest. Jessica Chastain: ‘I’d love to do a superhero movie’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z His cocktails are clean, austere, and made with unusual spirits, fresh juices, homemade syrups, and an abundance of local ingredients. Perfecting the Art of the Cocktail 2012-04-05T21:50:00.863Z Even “Cow,” Andrea Arnold’s austere and upsetting documentary about the life of a British dairy cow, is, in large part, a meditation on motherhood. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Probing, austere, meditative, it rang with a rare sense of authenticity and almost majestic scope. Review: In a violinist’s high-wire act, virtuoso Kristóf Baráti transfixes 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, Jakobsons anchors a Bay Area string ensemble, adding drama to Johnson’s austere tone. Chuck Johnson’s Ode to What’s Been Lost in California’s Fires 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s an austere cavern, almost medieval, with brick walls and stone arches above natural-edge communal tables. Boîte: Acme, a Restaurant and Cocktail Bar in NoHo 2012-05-30T18:47:53Z It is an intimate, austere record, a tender snapshot of a young woman wrestling with the pain of lost love. Silvana Estrada Arrives With a Devastating Album About Heartbreak 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Diagram Prize overseer Horace Bent said it was no coincidence "in these austere times that a book aimed to assist members of the public frugally farming their own produce proved the most popular title." Goblin-proof chicken book wins odd-title prize 2013-03-22T13:19:23Z Ever since, she has been a French national treasure, known as much for her long androgynous silhouette, austere elegance and melancholic songs as for her wit and forthright intelligence. Françoise Hardy, a French National Treasure, Is Back from the Brink 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The fashionably minimalist Shingle House stands alone and austere on a windswept Kent promontory. English Country Goes Rock-'N'-Roll 2011-03-10T12:15:00Z The fittingly austere production, directed by Robert B. Driver, uses sliding screens as the only sets. Philly offers US premiere of Henze's 'Phaedra' 2011-06-05T13:46:08Z He believed that there had been too much reliance on long stretches of austere recitative, which could get a little dreary. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Resolutely unsmiling and studiously austere, “The Untamed” behaves like a quiet horror movie with a lot on its mind. Review: In ‘The Untamed,’ Close Encounters. No, Even Closer. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z It bursts into the centre of a huge exhibition space to reveal the lurid hues of an oversized bunch of Jeff Koons tulips in front of an array of austere monumental paintings by Christopher Wool. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Through an alternately dense and austere thicket of electronic drones and pulsating beats and clangs, Mr. Wooley’s notes start as breaths and form soft, keening tones. Nate Wooley’s ‘For Kenneth Gaburo’ Manipulates a Sentence 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Many of our austere cultural standards around sex, cuffed to religious conventions, economics and antiquated notions about gender, still haunt us behind closed doors — even as much of our media uses sex as consumer currency. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Meets the Hot Vax Summer 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z In 2014, a retrospective of four major early works by the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was an extravagant helping of her antic, austere style. Toward a More Perfect Lincoln Center Union 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Nearly monastic in look and lifestyle, Jack is somewhat austere, a touch blank. ‘Don’t Let Go’ Review: Murder Leads to a Time-Bending Trip 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Both performances combined austere attentiveness to Bach’s contrapuntal writing with a plush, almost Romantic expressivity that invited listeners in. Music Review: Windscape and Orion String Quartet at Town Hall - Review 2012-01-09T22:45:52Z Our mood boards may sparkle with aprés ski scenes and fireside chats, but our reality is all austere resolutions and dry nights in. The ultimate guide to hosting your first fondue party 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z From an austere place, not one that ’s squishy with emotion. Lydia Millet: By the Book 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Even films with the most earnest and austere artistic inspirations seem to offer a toehold on Hollywood glamour. What’s Missing from “Foxcatcher” 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Quirky and austere, air plants achieve ascetic transcendence. The Alien Minimalism of Air Plants 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Mouglalis plays an austere, dignified president surrounded by often crude male advisers. On TV, France’s New President Is Young, Centrist and Female 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Puritanical, as a pejorative term, now conjures visions of austere religion, a censorious attitude, and strict demands for adherence to behavioral rules. Why America is so weird about sex 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Instead, she appears against flat, brownish, near-empty backgrounds that heighten the austere mood. Old Mistresses Turn Tables on Old Masters 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The effect is striking, as austere and beautiful as an Ansel Adams print. Trekking With Wolves 2010-02-20T06:14:00Z The overall setting of the film, in an austere religious order where silence was the rule, had the same effect. The Week Ahead: Oct. 10 ? 16 2010-10-08T13:44:00Z Over time, with natural evolution and deeper rummaging through cupboards, my variations on French toast moved farther and farther away from the austere concept of the continental breakfast. A Breakfast Crumble for Early Birds With a Sweet Tooth 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Largely ditching the straightforward, melodical approach of their previous work, it focuses on atmospheric grooves, cut-up vocals and austere, moody soundscapes. Dig for success 2010-03-11T08:16:00Z The work is alternately playful and somber, with a firm grounding in the austere medieval troubadour and plainsong traditions. Music Review: Stockhausen’s ‘Freude,’ by Chamber Music Society 2012-10-19T23:32:59Z The water-flooded interior has been reduced to an austere décor of black and white, lit by a single floor-to-ceiling strip of sunlight — an eery refuge from the turbulence of the times. Art: Venice Biennale Thrives Despite Tough Economic Times 2011-06-06T12:30:05Z A director could just as easily make the work austere and contemporary. Opera Review: ‘La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers’ at St. Paul’s Chapel 2014-01-02T22:36:48Z Ferry travelers can book an austere room, or they can crash out in almost any public space. A D.I.Y. Trip Through Alaska’s Inside Passage 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Their routines are dominated by prayer, ritual observance and obedience to Jewish law, but their world does not seem narrow and austere. Movie Review: ‘Fill the Void,’ Directed by Rama Burshtein 2013-05-23T21:43:35Z But it's the sharply focused, more abstract and austere geometric works that claim prolonged attention. See how Japanese American photography from 1920-1940 is still 'Making Waves' 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Like their austere leader, many Vogue staffers were bone-thin women who favored the finest clothes. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z There is a certain elegance to Ms. Coonrod’s decision to let audience members flex their imaginations, and the purity of intention matches the story’s setting in an austere Nordic hamlet. Review: ‘Babette’s Feast’ Is Served, This Time Onstage 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Adhering to the austere values of rural New England, the message is welcoming but not boastful. Perspective | An ‘Our Town’ for our time, staged in the New England community that inspired it 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z The works were visually austere, yet the reference to Christian theology — by a Jewish artist — was disconcertingly specific. Perspective | Barnett Newman’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ draws pilgrims to the National Gallery 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In more than 20 novels, Ms. Brookner explored an austere yet fertile territory in which her reserved characters were often romantically thwarted, wary of engagement of any kind, yet deeply aware of their unfulfilled yearnings. Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author of ruminative novels, dies at 87 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But we enter another world in the second movement, which begins with a muted, austere chorale for strings that becomes a backdrop for the piano’s questioning, eerie melodic phrases. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:45:27Z Death Valley may show its age — in millions of years, mind you, not centuries — but it continues to lure loners looking for quiet, and artists looking for inspiration in the austere landscape. Journeys: Death Valley: Three Million Acres of Weird 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z The more austere numbers, in which Debussy anticipates the pared-down style of his later music, were wonderfully wrought. Francesco Piemontesi – review 2012-11-08T17:26:49Z As she assumes both parts in Lucy’s dialogue with her austere, judgmental mother, you may at first feel like you’re eavesdropping on a rather mundane conversation. How She Survives: Strategies for Women on London Stages 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Martin’s austere musical language, hovering on the threshold of tonality, is hypnotic. Wagner in the Parking Lot as Opera Returns to Germany 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z But the austere, formal movements of the Choristers also evoked his past. Critic?s Notebook: In the Mysteries of Everyday Movement, Multilevel Stories 2011-03-06T22:56:33Z The scoring is very austere, and with the exception of one soprano role, the entire thing is written for low voices. Vivaldi: Armida al Campo d'Egitto 2010-07-08T21:50:00Z The novelist, in turn, burnished the dictator’s image, describing Castro in 1990 as a “man of austere habits and insatiable dreams, with an old-fashioned formal education, careful words and fine manners.” Love in the time of surveillance: FBI agents tracked Gabriel García Márquez 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z While making his way through the austere Kekexili region of the Tibetan plateau, a rugged truck driver accidentally runs over a sheep. ‘Jinpa’ Review: Murder and Mystery in Tibet 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The point of this austere approach is that you’re regularly required to ask what really needs doing, since there are only five slots. Why you only need five things on your to-do list 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z In the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, she captured sadder scenes: rough sleepers, austere classrooms. From Einstein to Couture, This 96-Year-Old Captured It All 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Yet in this riveting performance the minimal elements of this austere piece hung together to make something organic, even urgent. Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z He suffered from a reputation that he didn’t write hummable tunes and that his outlook was austere, if not grim. Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z I mean, the last record that I did, I was perched on top of a pink throne for god’s sake, it was imperious, it was austere and cold in a certain way. St. Vincent Talks Her New Album 'MASSEDUCTION' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z That’s to say it creates an exalted, austere public space, at once like the prow of a ship and a retreat for meditation. Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park to Open 2012-09-12T22:25:05Z A collection of brown chairs and black tables on a black floor in an undecorated white room, it is as austere as a Shaker chapel, although one with a long, well-populated bar against the wall. Chez Ma Tante, Where Falafel and Kedgeree Live in Harmony 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z If the fellows are prone to falling over each other in their scramble to hold to their austere code, the four women arriving on a diplomatic matter from France are comparative grown-ups. Review | ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ is tricky, but the Folger makes it winsome 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, when people were inundated with austere geometric abstraction, many missed the heart. A 'real' portrait of 'Big Eyes' artist Margaret Keane 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z "Opulently overstuffed" with garish, childish decorative details, The Public seemed a likely folly even in less austere times. A New Kind of Bleak by Owen Hatherley – review 2012-07-06T07:00:01Z It is somehow texturally rich yet austere, with an atmosphere and a voice that suggest authority and gravitas despite the context of music designed essentially to make you have fun and dance. New band of the day: Jungle (No 1,536) 2013-06-19T14:21:15Z But these details and vignettes are part of an austere classicism, rather than a new choreographic language, slowly building to evoke a poetic and specific world. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z It's rich in joy and comedy, but also grave and austere and poetic. Playwright Simon Stephens: 'The same old agonies return to haunt you' 2011-04-08T11:18:34Z Michael Yeargan’s set is stark, a paradigm of luxuriously austere Scandinavian chic. Review: ‘Oslo’ Fills a Large Canvas in a Thrilling Production 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He has done that and, at the same time, produced a show that is filled with musical invention, austere forms of abstract beauty and visceral expressions of joy. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Plush grays and downy whites lend the scenes a soft, comfortable, well-worn feeling; the studios are empty and bare, monastic even, but never austere. Painter Paul Winstanley Captures Empty Artists’ Studios on Canvas 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Life for them is a lot more austere than it is for most of us now. Babette's Feast: Julian Baggini savours the ultimate lockdown movie 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z More friendly, more optimistic, more "inclusive" than the austere or aggressive towers of earlier eras. High stakes 2013-02-12T07:00:01Z “Coffee shops here are austere and quiet, with people with headphones on, not talking,” says Daniella Senior, partner and director of operations at Washington’s recently opened Colada Shop. Perspective | Cuban-styled Colada has lively flavor 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Even as someone enthralled with the austere work as written, I was fascinated to hear the filled-in harmonies and fleshed-out bits. Review: At Mostly Mozart, Joshua Bell Plays a Rejiggered Bach Novelty 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z It is about an almost impossibly rarefied world, and yet with austere charm, and a very likable central figure, the film helps us to understand something of this world. Film review: Pianomania 2010-08-19T22:49:00Z The Glasgow School, for instance, had flipped the country’s austere Baronial, Neoclassical and Victorian styles on their heads. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z But in the days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, Koizumi momentarily ditched the colorful ensembles in favor of something more austere. T Magazine: Tokyo Street Style 2011-04-08T19:38:45Z He holds it up as a very austere, high godly calling. Stephen Falk on 'You're the Worst' and Why He Believes in Romantic Comedies 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The Donmar season is intended as a showcase for young directors, and Simon Evans does a good job in using sound and light to lend this rigorously austere piece tonal variety. The Silence of the Sea – review 2013-01-15T17:51:48Z Onstage, the sisters’ smiling presence transformed the doleful, austere songs. Review: Ibeyi, Twin Sisters and a Duo, Uses Songs to Show Roots 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Well, it was the tweed, the imaginative addition of the black band, and those austere lines. On the Runway Blog: Valentino: Lady in the Attic 2013-07-04T07:03:28Z No longer were the austere quarters for personnel kept hidden away on the upper floors: now it was the inscrutable sphere of power that was sequestered there. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z The diet camp Melanie attends is an austere, quasi-military institution in a mountain forest in which the children are crowded four to a room in bunk beds. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Hope,’ the Third Film in Ulrich Seidl’s Unblinking Trilogy 2013-12-16T22:48:24Z Nicknamed "Mama Rosa", Verduzco favored a simple, austere dress style and spoke in a hoarse, fast voice. Woman in Mexican children's home probe a divisive figure 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The narrow dining room is calm and white but not austere, thanks to mismatched chairs and a snaking shelf of sake bottles. Izakaya in the East Village 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z In the movie’s visual design, every image is part of an austere, perfectly balanced composition. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Faith,’ the Second in Ulrich Seidl’s Trilogy 2013-08-22T21:51:23Z But the persevering Mr. Jasperse has risen to the top of his field by choreographing works that test the limits of both brain and body, and live inside austere yet arresting theatrical landscapes. John Jasperse Prepares His New Work, ?Canyon? 2011-11-13T05:00:10Z Her self-sufficiency and resilience are confirmed as she arrives in a grand, austere chateau and starts to settle in. ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Review: A Brush With Passion 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Above his head, a TV monitor shows the stage, bare except for the play’s two simple tables and chairs that provide an austere setting for 80 minutes of layered drama and comedy. An overnight sensation after 45 years in the biz: Denis Arndt, Mary-Louise Parker's co-star in 'Heisenberg' 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The performance was also familiar territory for Mr. Hoghe, who has a spinal deformity and is intent on shining a light — through carefully selected music and concise, austere movement — on notions of beauty. Critic?s Notebook: Crossing the Line Festival 2011-09-20T21:15:12Z Now I’ve heard everything, I thought. What guy in his right mind would pay to see someone like me to take off her … I paused, looking down at my austere gray cardigan. From Harvard to webcam girl 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z It is an austere place, one whose ecstatic carvings create an atmosphere of quietly humming spiritual intensity, something like a fission lab for souls. India in One, Two or Three Weeks 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z More austere is “River Blues: Two Columns,” whose spires are asymmetrical in width but entirely in grayish blues. Review | In the galleries: Artists make use of Asian iconography via paper and sculpture 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Yet regardless of the quality of the designs we’re seeing, the mood can seem austere to the point of being puritanical. The End of Gender 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z It's easy to think of Rosemary Butcher as figure of saintly rectitude, the austere, minimalist conscience of modern dance. Rosemary Butcher 2010-10-03T21:30:00Z Mr. Transtromer’s austere poems provide the inspiration for “Secrets on the Way,” a similarly noirish fusion of dance, theater and poetry by this San Francisco company. Dance Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:42:35Z It is a bit austere and short on color, with a broad slant toward conceptual/neo-conceptual art, to which the collectors freely admit, along with their lack of interest in much recent painting. Wagner Collection at the Whitney, 25 Years of Astute Buying 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Still, the absence of star power led to an austere and jarring tone, as though the event were pressing in on Trump, alone in the spotlight. On TV, Trump’s Inauguration Made Him Seem Small 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Photograph: AP JD Salinger's austere public image has been belied by the memories of an old comrade from the second world war, who has been reminiscing about their friendship after unveiling a hitherto unseen correspondence. JD Salinger comrade recalls 'emotional and warm' friend 2010-03-19T16:00:00Z For all their austere reputation, Victorians knew how to throw a Christmas party. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Christopher Stephen Clark, the English musician who records as Clark, has built a huge, polymorphous catalog of instrumental music that ranges from stark, austere techno to exquisite chamber-music soundtracks. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Whether it’s grown-up tie-dye or oversize barrettes, there is nothing austere here. Which Spring Trends to Try First? 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Hers is also an ethos ripped from an austere wartime past. At Milan Men’s Week, the War Lives On 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z This example is a bit more austere than the Inman and most other New World renditions, with an emphasis on structure rather than fruit. 5 ‘warm-weather’ wines that will carry you through fall 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Their lives are simple, austere, even bleak, while their relations with one another are sensitive and complex, bound together by need and dependency and, in the case of Betty and Harry, desire. Mateship With Birds by Carrie Tiffany – review 2013-06-12T03:53:35Z A. M. Homes’s new McCarthy-ish novel, “May We Be Forgiven,” earned her an austere, short-waisted photo straight out of the McCarthy playbook. Remembering Mary McCarthy’s Style 2012-10-19T22:52:01Z There are also pointed and austere performances from Rufus Wainwright, Billy Bragg, David Gray, Jarvis Cocker and more, covering the songwriter’s classics from “The Shoals of Herring” to “Moving On Song.” Ewan MacColl, Dogmatist of British Folk, Gets a Tribute Album 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z A room there is devoted to his favorite artist, On Kawara, who spent his career making austere darkly colored paintings that bear the date of their creation in white text. RM, Boy Band Superstar, Embraces New Role: Art Patron 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z My book group chose Book Two of his six-volume opus, “My Struggle,” and so there I was in October, propped up in bed with the austere Norwegian. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z It was one of the most austere of years but the Labour government spent a fortune on buildings and cultural events to cheer up the battered nation. Skylon's the limit 2011-01-19T17:27:31Z Her early influences included the austere Russian Constructivists, hard-edged Ellsworth Kelly shapes and foreign films. An Artist Who Paints in Cryptic Pastel Symbols 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z London in 1959 was austere, but my childhood was enriched by Scotland. Emma Thompson: ‘Dieting screwed up my metabolism. I regret ever going on one' 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Shown last week in Paris, this dress was a beauty, because of the austere draping and the keyhole back. On the Runway Blog: The SAG Awards Get a Lift 2013-01-28T17:10:09Z Much of this work, Mr. Scharf explained, was a reaction to the prevailing downtown New York spirit, one in which the dominant aesthetics revolved around an austere minimalism and theory-laden conceptualism. Club 57, Late-Night Home of Basquiat and Haring, Gets a Museum-Worthy Revival 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The other is its austerity, even for a fairly austere band. Review: In ‘Kannon,’ From Sunn O))), Brevity and Austerity 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Jesse and Ramón lead us around the complex, through the modest visitors’ center, on to the chapel itself, simple and austere, and the unfinished church. San Antonio missions preserve Native American history in Texas' first U.S. World Heritage site 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z A Bach adagio was played by Mr. Redman and Mr. Grenadier, in an austere reduction of counterpoint. Music Review: Joshua Redman at Town Hall 2013-06-06T21:53:18Z Mr. Barbe also designed the beautifully colorful, campy costumes worn by the debauched Alexandrians, a vivid contrast with the austere robes of the nuns and monks. Music Review: George Manahan Conducts ‘Thaïs’ at Manhattan School of Music 2012-12-10T22:50:19Z While his music is minimal and austere, Basinski is chatty and flamboyant. Review | William Basinski’s tranquil tunes stirred listeners — and got a standing ovation — at U Street Music Hall 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z The vocal lines are direct and austere; the piano teems with rustling figurations and sputtering chords. Music Review: Festival of Song Offers ?Newest Deal? at Merkin Hall 2010-05-05T22:38:00Z Like his favored permutations of punk, the landscape was austere, spatial and extraterrestrial. Hundreds of Punks Hit the Desert. The Modern Music Festival Was Born. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z It sequences horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines in various combinations across a grid; its austere precision still packs the same philosophical and visual bite. A Discreet Jubilee for a Groundbreaking Chelsea Gallery 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “Of Gods and Men” is supple and suspenseful, appropriately austere without being overly harsh, and without forgoing the customary pleasures of cinema. | 'Of Gods and Men': Between Heaven and Earth 2011-02-24T22:55:48Z This album and de facto preamble mixtape are full of fanged verses about drug-game glory and regret, brazen and austere and unnerving. Drake, Kanye West and Ashley Monroe 2013-12-13T18:32:49Z It is as austere as it can get. Anna Sorokin on ‘Inventing Anna’ and Life After Rikers 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z The austere physical production, including crisply effective lighting by Brian H. Scott and an eerie score by Christian Frederickson, has the unfortunate effect of setting the antic performances in even starker relief. | 'Double Falsehood': Shakespearean Plot Twists, Maybe Even by Shakespeare 2011-03-27T23:37:01Z Most prominent was the irreverent upstart art movement Pattern and Decoration and related tendencies that broke with the more austere aspects of Post-Minimalism and Conceptualism. Art Review: ‘Hooray for Hollywood!’ Recalls Holly Solomon’s Eye for Art 2014-01-16T22:48:08Z Before his brothers were killed, Ted Kennedy was the third wheel — a rude, ruddy bon vivant in contrast to the austere Bobby and polished Jack. ‘Saturday Night Live’ thinks it’s figured out the Trump brothers. Does it get them right? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z In the midst of Ford's austere aesthetic fussing and arranging, Firth is lovely every minute. 2009-12-10T01:10:00Z They range from austere — using just fresh pineapple and coconut milk — to decadent — featuring lots of sugar and heavy cream. With 2 ingredients and no measuring, you can make your own Dole Whip popsciples 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Powerful, austere drama about an Algerian monastery threatened by Islamic fundamentalists. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-04-08T23:07:47Z That relative smoothness suits Ms. Childs’s meticulous, austere style and movement vocabulary. Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Showcases Beethoven and Female Choreographers 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z And yet, on the foot, it had a tremendous logic: austere at the base, and overflowing at the top — what you might wear if the party invite read Mardi Gras formal. Critical Shopper: Christian Louboutin’s New Store for Men 2012-09-25T19:51:49Z Both Holden and Hawkins got superior billing, but this is Alec Guinness's film through and through: his thin, agonised face, as austere as a medieval saint's, burns out of the screen. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z The stage was an austere geometry of fluorescent tubes; the song was triumphant. U2’s Flight to Now (Turbulence Included) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z In this rarely seen work, van Manen infused drama and sensuality into an austere, postmodern style, so we got sleek lines and delicious warmth at the same time. Washington Ballet’s ‘Petite Mort’ delivers wit, surprise and mystery “Settlement” is more austere and mysterious: a four-panel portrait of beach sands, with two bikini-clad sunbathers either fully exposed to the sun’s rays or mostly buried under the sand, depending on your vantage point. Twisted takes on summer wear at Winston Wächter 2013-07-25T22:41:01Z The brief, austere tone poem concluded with a sustained blaze of trombones intended to evoke the slow burning of pagan funeral pyres. Hall?/Elder ? review 2012-02-12T15:11:38Z As a director, he is both canny and bold, dropping bits of backwoods humor into an austere landscape dominated by violence and anguish. ‘The Homesman’ Stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z In bordeaux form, though, Serena Joy is “sophisticated, traditional and austere”, a wine we are advised not to “judge too quickly” or we might miss out on “a sublime experience”. Is The Handmaid's Tale wine collection the worst tie-in ever? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Eschewing kings and preferring city-states to an overarching government, the Greeks tried democracy, oligarchy, tyranny and, in the case of Sparta, austere, militaristic utopianism. Tonight's TV highlights: Edwardian Farm 2010-11-24T00:05:00Z The Edinburgh festival was founded in 1947 as an antidote to the austere times after World War Two. Edinburgh Festival names Irishman Fergus Linehan new director 2013-04-22T16:21:28Z His prose was now rich but austere, shorn of most punctuation. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z When we arrived at the hotel, the manager led us to a room with one double bed, clean and austere, a Bible on the bedside table. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z An austere woman, scrupulously devoted to her profession, at times overbearing and intrusive, at other times aloof, she is at once admirable and maternally incompetent. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Shot with a gray-blue palette, these scenes are more austere, and feature very little dialogue. Another JonBenét Ramsey movie? Yes, but this one is different. 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z I thought about my childless aunt in her austere villa in Alfonsine, the extra bedrooms and lemon trees Allegra could climb… …but I knew I could not get away with such a scheme. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z On the runway, a romantically decadent aura will be played against shapes as austere as the sketches she executes in no more than 10 or 12 clean pencil strokes. FITTINGS: Countdown to Fashion Week: Thank the Deli for That Dress 2013-08-21T18:17:47Z These tightly edited, half-hour broadcasts distill the day’s events, at times providing an austere contrast to President Trump’s daily briefings, which are often airing simultaneously elsewhere. Perspective | Cable news stars like Hannity make headlines. But more people are watching David Muir’s ABC newscast. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z What the bloggers collectively called minimalism amounted to a kind of enlightened simplicity, a moral message combined with a particularly austere visual style. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The settings of marginal poetry by medieval monks run the gamut from austere to earthy, and Bradley dove into each mood with enthusiasm. Review | At the Kennedy Center, soprano Michelle Bradley navigates risk and reward 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z At this point, the images become sharper, scarier and more austere, and the emotions more intense. Review: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Gives a Child of the Universe Powerful Friends 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Kiefer is an austere man of medium build with an intense bespectacled gaze and a neatly trimmed gray beard. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Andrew Gn, who designed the black and gold gown Ms. Margulies wore to the Globes, wrote in an email that the neckline on Ms. Margulies’s dress gave “sizzle to a deliberately austere dress.” A Cleavage Trend Reveals a More Natural Décolletage for Hollywood Stars on the Red Carpet 2014-02-12T22:54:59Z Comprising cell-like shapes connected by “conduits,” his paintings are at once luminous and austere, with textured surfaces he laboriously builds up using layers of acrylic frequently mixed with Roll-a-Tex, a surfacing material for houses. An Artist’s Life in Objects, From a Warhol Print to a Postmodern Lamp 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The high-ceilinged, almost austere dining room puts the emphasis on the huge fireplace at the back of the restaurant, where almost every dish is cooked over the open flame. Choice Tables: New Variety in Oakland?s Restaurants 2010-06-23T18:53:00Z The judges cited “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The wedding took place in an austere Anglican Church, and though there were traditional elements, this was no button-up royal ceremony. How the Royal Wedding Might Influence Weddings to Come 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The collection was on the austere side, but Ms. Gummer didn’t mind. Mamie Gummer Wants to Make a Name for Herself 2012-10-05T20:45:19Z “Now, the word they use is austere,” Ms. Collins said with a laugh. For Shirley Collins, a Folk Revival of Her Very Own 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z A study in midcentury drab, the room is clean, borderline austere, meticulously arranged and one flickering light bulb away from David Lynch-style uneasiness. Review: Hard-Boiled Play in ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Both are richly illustrated, which matters: The landscape of Central Asia can be breathtaking in its austere and frightening beauty. Review | We may not be able to leave the house, but these transporting books whisk us to Central Asia 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Across the province’s cliffside fishing towns, Omar Gandhi’s residential architecture is as austere and intense as the environment for which it’s built. In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The arrangements aren’t rigorously austere — plush phantom orchestration swells within “Albatross” and “Invisible” — but they have a careful reticence. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-09T22:28:22Z A ballad called “Azazel” sounded nobly austere; another piece began with squeaks and rasps and ended by quoting the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Music Review | John Zorn: Exploring the Topography of John Zorn?s Continent 2010-02-19T22:52:00Z The impressive, ominous, and austere memorial designed by Michael Arad opened almost three years ago, in time for the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn’t just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop Occasionally the script drips purple when a more austere shade of prose would serve better. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z The work of great artists at the end of their lives can be austere and demanding. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z The spiritual quality couldn’t be more obvious in the austere severity of the “St. Matthew Passion.” Review: Jaap van Zweden Returns to a Changed Philharmonic 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z I lug my bags from the back of the cab and peer up at the austere, ivy-covered Tudor. “I tell myself I will quit bingeing when I get diabetes”: Tales of a sugar addict 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Choppy duets, more awkward than austere, held little magic beyond the sight of beautiful bodies at work. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-11-03T01:15:46Z So for the next two austere years it'll be manipulated "sex and sobbing", until we wise up and stop watching them again. Last week's TV 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z The result is a new form, austere in the way classicists appreciate, but fundamentally young. Critic’s Notebook: Emeli Sandé’s ‘Our Version of Events’ 2012-06-06T22:42:46Z They are cold and austere in early April. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z A public art revival occurred in the 1960s in response to modern architecture’s austere International style, which no longer integrated reliefs, sculptures and other decorations into building exteriors. In New York and More, Public Art Is Taking on Thorny Social Issues 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z But if you let your eyes adjust to their austere palettes, blocks of subtly differentiated color emerge from voluminous darkness. James Turrell Takes Up Curating, With a Show by His Hero 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The austere dissonances of the octet’s second movement, as well as the performance’s exuberance and rhythmic bite, seemed, in the group’s thoughtful programming, an outgrowth of the first half of the concert. Music Review: The Knights Chamber Orchestra at Bargemusic - Review 2011-09-18T21:30:07Z “Corridor,” by Saskia Hamilton. Poems as passionate in their austerity, and as austere in their passion, as Hopper or Hardy: the latter informs these poems of low-slung, mossy landscape. Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Stubbs said that she had tried to do something different from the austere renditions of Mrs. Hudson in other filmed versions of the books. ‘Sherlock’ Opens Up the Old Boys’ Club to Women 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Arguably, that song suffers under the austere New York style, though I love it anyway. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Pawson's palette is austere but none the less capable of deadpan surprises that would liven the place up – perhaps an unexpected cantilever or moment of structural daring. Designs of the Year 2012 ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:52Z Mr. Kois writes that he knows he’s supposed to embrace celebrated films that he variously describes as “slow-moving, meditative” and “stately, austere” and “deliberately paced.” Arts & Leisure: In Defense of the Slow and the Boring 2011-06-03T13:29:50Z The musical is frosted with punch lines and cliches that never would have cut it in the austere movie, which was largely shot on Dublin’s streets. ‘Once’ again bares the soul of a Dublin busker, this time on stage 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z For me the 1950s didn't seem especially austere, nor the 60s wild and liberated, nor the 70s sludge-brown – and none of the subsequent decades seems official or even convincing in comparison. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z This particular photograph is austere in subject, but the printing makes it sensual. Photographer John Stewart's best shot 2011-01-05T22:00:01Z Also about “First Reformed,” Paul Schrader’s austere, churning drama of wavering faith in the face of catastrophe. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z "This modest, austere story seemed to lend itself to being made in black and white," he added. Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes 2013-05-23T17:02:09Z Instead, the nave throbbed to an austere, electronically enhanced rumble whose lachrymose fanfares contained echoes of Purcell's funeral music or Monteverdi's evocation of Hades. The Miners' Hymn 2010-07-16T20:45:00Z There are long stretches of austere silence, yet Amber Bemak’s sound design also feeds in jittery footfalls, soothing water and the warmth and beat of pop rock. Dance Review: Vanessa Anspaugh’s ‘we were an island’ at Danspace Project 2014-02-23T21:49:16Z The hotel is by turns luxurious and austere — call it sanitarium chic — designed around the natural features of the island: Hammocks hung between tall pine trees, benches nooked into moss-covered rocks. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z By contrast, Jordan Ruiz’s crab-and-redfish gumbo at the Munch Factory, his restaurant in the Lower Garden District, is much darker and comparatively austere. Gumbo, the Classic New Orleans Dish, Is Dead. Long Live Gumbo. 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z They haven't lost all of the theatre, the bellowing stridency, all of the bark and lilt, the hermetic wit, it's not exactly an austere, patient sound. Paul Morley Showing Off ... Wild Beasts 2010-09-03T16:03:00Z None of this is immediately evident from the festival’s rather austere logo or posters trumpeting the names of the orchestras involved, or from the concert programs themselves. Review | In festival opener, a small orchestra shows it deserves the spotlight 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Nijinska's austere evocation of a traditional peasant wedding portrays the story of small lives, especially women's lives, being swallowed up by collective forces. Royal Ballet: Triple Bill – review 2012-07-02T17:17:10Z When he wrote the piece, Mr. Wolff, like his teacher, was smitten with Webern’s austere transparency and intrigued by the democratizing potential of indeterminacy. Music Review: A Work?s Long Road to New York 2010-12-22T23:06:06Z The album is lean and dry but hardly austere: It feels dynamic and fully realized, a product of intense real-time exchange. Andrew Cyrille’s Late-Career Renaissance 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The dancers orbit around one another in silence, performing austere moves dense with emotion. At 85, choreographer Rudy Perez is still inspired by the rhythms of everyday life 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z The rare touches of color on the black-and-white set and costumes are shocking intrusions of vitality into an austere setting. In local staging of 'Bernarda Alba,' tyranny begins at home 2012-05-09T17:30:07Z The revolutionary design — bold color! flared columns! barrel shapes! ornamental art! — lowered the blinds on the austere glass-and-steel buildings dominating modern cityscapes. A tribute to architect Michael Graves and the small-town life he embraced 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z First came a trademark ode to the four pieces of the tailored gray suit; next, a meditation on proportion and the power of the missing piece, layering austere tunics with mismatched sleeves atop maxi skirts. New York Fashion Week Returns. Here’s the Cliffs Notes Version. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Either way, Matisse was already beginning to use copying as a way to take the same motif to different pictorial conclusions, shifting from opulent to austere, or austere to opulent. Art Review: Matisse Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-29T22:44:14Z “Seeing clothes on someone like them really resonates with consumers — not a runway model, not an austere glamazon,” said Hillary Mendelsohn, an online marketing expert and founder of thepurplebook.com, a Zagat guide to the Web. A Look That?s Worth a Million Hits 2010-12-01T23:40:00Z The language is essentially tonal, with lush, thick chromatic harmony and more austere modal passages that evoke the heritage of sacred music. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z The narrative structure is a collage, with radiant scenes from Mendel’s wide-eyed youth and icy images of his austere life in the United States. ‘Son of Monarchs’ Review: Of Butterflies and Belonging 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z We know we will have to work even harder in austere times. Music matters: 10 years at Wigmore Hall 2011-01-06T22:59:01Z Taking their lead from Blake, they hungered for the austere purity of Fra Angelico, the chastity of Mantegna, the innocence of Raphael. Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z On Saturday, Christina Lynch Markham rendered that solo incisively, and in the rest of the dance the ensemble ably depicted the group patterns in their austere beauty. Dance Review: Taylor 2 Gives a Paul Taylor Sampler at Pace - Review 2012-01-09T22:57:32Z In the ancient city of Ravenna, Italy, near the Adriatic, are eight basilicas and baptisteries, dating from the fifth and sixth centuries, whose austere exteriors belie the lavish stonework within. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z In Barber’s cycle “Hermit Songs,” based on poems by Irish monks, an austere and craggy pendant to “Carmina Burana,” she found a spark even in the smallest fragment, a song of a single line. Review | From Schubert to Simone, a singer’s powerful statement 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The dates and parsnips will convey a sense of sweetness to this dish, so I’m thinking of both whites and reds that won’t clash or come across as overly austere. For This Menu, Start With Dessert 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z This was self-indulgent twaddle, inappropriate in these austere times and built on an entirely erroneous premise and poor science. Food TV: a crop of lemons 2013-01-23T10:45:00Z Boys Noize — so austere that their video display used only red, black and white — dispensed buzzing, distorted riffs over dry drumbeats, as the chords that topped them jabbed with happy aggression. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z With Britain still recovering from the war, the wedding offered a rare burst of color and pageantry against an austere background of rationing and shortages. Going strong after 70 years: UK's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrate platinum anniversary 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z With Lewis playing trombone, organ and electronics, his austere then emotive work managed to honor its dedicatee by generating new stylistic possibilities within an existing tradition — just as Parker had done. For Music, a Fall Deluge of Performances Is Beginning 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Churned together, they make a dish that looks austere but tastes intemperate. At Okonomi, Don’t Look for French Toast 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z As a young man, Vine wrote austere, ultra-modernist work, but later underwent a conversion to a more accessible, melodic form of music. Bleak midwinter to Sydney sun: King's College carol service gets a taste of Australia 2012-12-22T13:10:26Z Investigations of the bookshelves at home revealed a celebratory album about a mysterious event called the Festival of Britain that already seemed prehistoric in its austere monochrome. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z Some were middle- and upper-class folks who retreated to off-grid vacation homes while others were forced into austere lifestyles after falling into foreclosure. 'Off the Grid': The lonely freedom of living an unplugged life 2010-09-15T23:44:00Z The shock is how this dissonant, austere music, little more than a succession of glancing impulses and thought-spasms, reveals itself live as warm, humane and resonant. These New Puritans – review 2013-06-20T16:59:19Z It looks like work that is austere and cerebral, but it’s really quite sensuous. What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The means remain austere, but the variety they produce is rich and surprising. Review | In the galleries: Many shades of gray are only the beginning 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z It is not an austere dish by any means, but it is balanced and restrained. Ramen Without Broth? A Chef Doubles Down on a Sidelined Dish 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z “Its mythic-medieval landscapes are heavily shadowed and austere, and its flights of magic are summoned from a zone of barely suppressed rage and dangerous power.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Mr. Soul!’ and the Golden Globes 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Its mythic-medieval landscapes are heavily shadowed and austere, and its flights of magic are summoned from a zone of barely suppressed rage and dangerous power. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z Solo piano without vocals was too austere a format for Eluvium. Music Review: Guitar Rock, Stretched on the Canvas of a Big Stage 2011-04-07T21:56:34Z I Love You” and “You’ve Changed”— and each was a model of austere, straightforward pathos. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z Mr. Stillman’s austere, dignified performance is enlivened by appealing touches of dry humor, while Ms. Ripley’s Mary is depicted as both a nervous shopaholic and a troubled but humane woman who visits wounded soldiers incognito. Theater Review: ‘A Civil War Christmas,’ by Paula Vogel, Set at White House 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z Yet despite his austere reputation, he was always after a box office hit, and after the disappointing results for Barry Lyndon, Stephen King’s chiller got the nod. Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s a slightly austere one, in which live music — usually piano and violin — and dance are scrupulously presented in notably nontheatrical surroundings. Dance Review: Bare Bones, Fleshed Out With Music 2011-02-06T22:22:41Z That may sound austere, but it is dreamily evocative, and it would seem to offer as much if not more room for a child’s actively imaginative engagement than more realistic types. Review: ‘Swedish Wooden Toys’ Mix Ingenuity and Education 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z At every recommended spot — Jam, Blue Fox Cafe, Floyd’s Diner — I found lines longer than my hunger would abide, so I took a chance on the more austere, sparsely populated digs at Zambri’s. Need a getaway to celebrate (or escape) the holidays? Travel like a queen to Victoria 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The chorus sings Latin versions of three psalm texts; the music looks back to the heritage of sacred vocal works, yet through an austere contemporary prism. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z On tenor and soprano, she’s omnivorous and pointed, slouching and precise, humorous and austere. 2010-01-15T04:14:00Z The result includes a ballet divertissement, two bustling outdoor scenes, a tense gambling episode and a church scene with austere organ music and offstage angelic choirs. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z Yet as convincingly mournful as McGraw sounds against the song’s austere setting, the rest of “Sundown Heaven Town” suggests he’s not ready to commit to a style that might turn off his younger listeners. Country's superstar middle men look for their spots 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Because of its austere ingredient list, it's also vegan and egg-allergy friendly. Depression cake is the all-star chocolate cake you can make with pantry staples 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The austere stone staircase curving up from the main entrance hall; the pillared cloister enclosing the courtyard; the arches framing doors and windows — all are modeled on the 12th-century convent-orphanage where she was raised. | The House That Coco Built 2013-06-07T16:21:12Z A show like “Early Shaker Spirituals,” say — an austere interpretation of an album of Shaker music — might strike you as thrilling or tedious, but either way the intensity of its interrogation is fascinating. Review: ‘A Pink Chair’ Explores a Polish Playwright, but Finds Little 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z A self-taught cook, he became an excellent one, entertaining frequently in his small apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan but otherwise, according to Mr. Altshul, living an ascetic life in an austere home. Gil Marks, Historian of Jewish Food and Culture, Dies at 62 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Terence Davies’s blithely unconventional biopic glides through Dickinson’s life with poetic compression and musical grace, illuminating both her temperament and the austere, intellectually intense 19th-century New England environment that nurtured and constrained her gifts. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Last year’s prize went to American poet Louise Glück for what the judges described as her “unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Nobel panel to announce 2021 prize for literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Bright July light poured in from the windows, making the wood floors shimmer and blanching the austere whitish walls. The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z The teenage martyr venerated here presides over the apse in an austere, Byzantine-style mosaic of elongated figures set against a gold background. 36 Hours in Rome 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Lang’s music, too, is austere but shot through with vivid color, massing the whole orchestra in dark ferocious outbreaks or thinning it down to singing strings behind the voices. Perspective | Reexamining opera, one classic at a time 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Adults, animals and children die in these stories with an austere matter-of-factness. Sex, Death and More Sex: Three Books of Fiction by Acclaimed Japanese Writers 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z With a hard glare second only to Clint Eastwood’s in terms of its concentrated malice, and with a sense of astute purposefulness, his Parker turns the tables with ruthlessness tempered by an austere moral sensibility. ‘Parker’: Hard-as-nails malice put to good use 2013-01-24T23:35:34Z Freedom — its boundaries, its fantasies — is the provenance of “Kudos,” the new and final novel of Rachel Cusk’s austere, critically acclaimed triptych, following closely on the heels of “Outline” and “Transit.” Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It seems rather austere to watch six hours of Shakespeare in a language you don't understand but it was thrilling and incredibly accessible. The best performance I've ever seen: Simon Stephens 2011-04-01T19:36:30Z The whole climate onstage in “Newark” is austere, with particular emphasis on the many sustained lines of legs, spines and arms. Dance Review: Trisha Brown Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-31T22:53:57Z It certainly read as a study in opposites, both in demeanor as well as in ideas about R&B — Ms. Houston austere and regal, Mr. Brown louche and sweaty. An Appraisal: Whitney Houston?s Voice of Triumph and Pain 2012-02-12T15:39:23Z In some ways, this production is more austere than the delightfully circusy one that evolved through the previous New York stagings by Greenberg and Frederick Renz. Music Review: ‘Play of Daniel’ at Trinity Church’s Twelfth Night Festival 2013-12-30T22:20:57Z Produced by Ms. Merchant, the music is modest but not austere; strings and horns arrive unobtrusively. Critic’s Notebook: Albums by Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan 2014-05-07T21:46:14Z The Linda of “Improvement” — which was written in the 1980s and is being given a soulfully austere revival at the Kitchen in Chelsea through Feb. 16 — doesn’t get to vent her feelings quite so extravagantly. Review: An American Gothic Opera Speaks Softly and Hypnotically 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Set to Bach, it featured majestic location images — of Colorado and New Mexico — as its backdrop, settings that were austere, lonely and even a little wild. Review: A ‘Punk Ballerina’ Turns to Film and Fashion 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z As reported at the time, the H.P. board criticized him for authorizing more than $75,000 in payments and expenses for an occasional contractor when the company’s employees traveled under more austere conditions. Itineraries: A Little Extra on the Road 2010-11-18T07:30:00Z Strand’s photo of a snow-covered Central Park, caught in 1913–14, was an austere exercise in texture and silhouette, a solitary tobogganist disappearing into the distance. Paul Strand’s Sense of Things 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z For one thing, it too seems a trifle scrubbed clean, sanitized and austere. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z A fount of austere self-righteousness and a terror to his family, he becomes diminished by the monomaniacal pursuit of justice. The Winslow Boy – review 2013-05-08T17:07:43Z The wild card, rare in this very austere genre, is a second, overdubbed drum kit; against a dutiful steady wallop, its rumbles and crashes incite some anarchy. The Playlist: Beyoncé and Jay-Z Unite, and 12 More New Songs 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Leave me alone! – was my barely restrained reaction as I sat being interviewed by a psychic in an austere subterranean concrete space as a participant in an artwork by Jon Fawcett. Tate Modern's waste of space: why won't interactive art leave me alone? 2012-08-16T14:06:12Z In “The Card Counter” his man in the room is Oscar Isaac’s William Tell, an austere poker player who travels around backwater casinos, staying under the radar and making sure to never win too much. The direct line from ‘Taxi Driver’ to ‘The Card Counter’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Gina is so unimpressed by this childish superstition and so dismayed by her austere environment that she contemplates running away. In Magda Szabo’s Magical Novel, a Statue Protects Students From the Nazis 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z At once austere and conceptually overwrought, “The Nine Muses” is both too much and not enough. | 'The Nine Muses': ?The Nine Muses,? by John Akomfrah - Review 2011-10-05T22:07:26Z The a cappella work is austere compared with the lush Romanticism of Rachmaninoff’s virtuoso piano works, but the setting of traditional texts from the canonical hours of the Russian Orthodox Church is harmonically gorgeous. New Year’s Vespers and Youth Strings 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Hanging in the austere glamour of the gallery’s International White Cube style, the paintings mostly feature Morandi settled into his distilled vocabulary, perfecting the art of constant adjustment. Giorgio Morandi Creates a Universe on a Tabletop 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Even when Kogut sporadically upped the volume and energy levels, the austere nature of his solos and the mostly linear character of his phrase-making exuded a certain chill. A slow start for Blujazz week at the Showcase 2011-01-14T14:10:18Z Their faded stares and the restaurant's austere setting were doing little to calm Vera before his guests had arrived. 43 percent of internships at for-profit companies don’t pay. This man is helping to change that. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z But they acknowledged being influenced by the austere construction methods, lightweight materials and porous boundaries between inside and outside space that characterize traditional Japanese buildings. Japanese architects Sejima, Nishizawa win Pritzker 2010-03-29T01:31:00Z It's an approach that works wonders in the third book, in which form and harmony buckle and bend and tone becomes austere. Liszt: Ann?es de P?lerinage ? review 2011-04-07T21:15:00Z Mr Brooks offers an alternative—and more austere—set of values to live by. You are not special 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s a YouTube channel that points out all the tropes and archaic things that happen in our industry, where everything is so austere and we make art. Tyler James Williams Lifts His Spirits With bell hooks and Tom Ford 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Since 2009, they have been engaged in austere sonic experiments, from engineering complex minimalist techno to replicating the DNA of dance music using orchestral instruments. Brandt Brauer Frick – review 2013-03-21T18:10:55Z Salinger Dies at 91: The Hermit Crab of American Letters By Richard Lacayo Take the austere little paperbacks down from the shelf and you can hold the collected works of J.D. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z It was Bingham, who died of a drug overdose, in 1999, for whom Stone was a kind of God, austere and unapproachable. Two Readings with Robert Stone 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z A couple of the minimalists are austere to the point of feeling sterile. Aussie-U.S. glass-art ties made clear at Museum of Glass 2013-07-31T22:35:09Z Balty simply doesn’t understand pitiless fanaticism or the coldly austere theology behind it. Review | The timely message in Christopher Buckley’s historical novel 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z The next act on a generous bill is Pole, German electronic music legend Stefan Betke, who is often regarded as austere but in this company seems almost pop. Unsound Adelaide: Lustmord, Demdike Stare, Pole, Ben Frost - review 2013-03-17T07:50:00Z The video designer David Bengali, who graced “Verne” with galactic tableaus on three video screens, here conjures a quietly austere and wintry landscape of gorgeous black and white. Review: In ‘Anna Akhmatova,’ a Magical Interlude Reconjured 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The austere spirituality of the desert infuses the music of Tinariwen, whose members are Tuareg nomads from the Sahara. In Transit Blog: Fables and Fantasy Infuse 40th Hong Kong Arts Festival 2012-01-30T11:00:26Z The pizzicato chords of “Silver,” the austere second section, were harmonically vivid but couldn’t sustain a whole movement. Review: Hannah Lash and Her ‘Life Partner’ at Miller Theater 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z But Mr. Vu is largely true to their melodies, bringing a terse caress to “My Funny Valentine” and austere clarity to “Body and Soul.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z With their minimal furnishings, natural color palettes and austere finishes, there are plenty of designer hotel rooms these days that do a good job of approximating a monastic cell. Guesthouses of the Holy 2010-04-29T14:25:00Z “The last 30 or 40 years of her life, she was anorexic. She lived a very austere, minimalist life. She did not buy much for herself and was very regimented about her spending.” This Life: In an Age of Lessening Privacy, Some Family Secrets Persist 2014-01-17T23:41:18Z The rooms are both austere and cozy, lacking in decorative flourishes but filled with cherished mementos and personal collections that shed light on Wyeth's inspiration and interests. Wyeth's Pa. world opening to public for first time 2012-04-28T18:01:05Z “Available Light” is an austere exercise in large-scale geometry with its patterns of skips, pivots and ballet steps that aspire to an impersonal, ecstatic ideal. Dance This Week: ‘Available Light’ and Louise Lecavalier 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It has been organized by Mr. Kalmar and Richard Birkett, the curator, and while the dominance of painting diverges somewhat from the usual emphasis on austere, conceptual art forms, the political undercurrent does not. Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The Barclay Brass filled the church with its own indefinable power that night, more austere than Rush but no less eccentric or exploratory. With the Barclay Brass, D.C. takes an outsized role in the small world of classical brass music 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The store, the brand’s first outside Japan, is calm and austere. New York, It’s Time to Shop! (Masks on, Please) 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z She would need to be physically resilient to withstand the austere life that he envisaged, but at the same time gentle and caring. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-01-04T22:55:08Z Mr. Tao has an ability to draw you inside his austere, meditative world; if you go willingly, you realize that the body is a sacred place. Dance Review: TAO Dance Theater Performs 2 Meditative Works 2014-02-21T23:02:01Z The novelist and professor at a Roman Catholic university who was born in 1909 into an austere and puritanical Methodist household in Ohio was Samuel M. Steward. Samuel Steward?s Life in ?Secret Historian? 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z Her works on canvas and fabric are by turns riotously inchoate and placidly austere, mixing symbolic imagery with excerpts from kuriyama’s writings. Grief and sacrifice in a dream-like installation in Koreatown 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Ahmed’s narrow, austere, immature way of looking at the world is contrasted not with a rival set of beliefs, but with the patience of the people around him and the benevolence of the Belgian state. ‘Young Ahmed’ Review: Fighting for the Soul of a Teenage Militant 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Spare but not austere, dynamic but never histrionic, “The Suit” is the work of a stage maestro, whose artistry is akin to a distiller refining raw grapes into smoothly potent spirits. ‘The Suit’: A fitting personal and political allegory 2014-03-21T23:14:10Z Similarly impressive is a sizable, relatively austere leaded favrile glass window festooned with magnolias and wisteria by Louis Comfort Tiffany at Lillian Nassau. Art In Review: INTERNATIONAL FINE ART & ANTIQUE DEALERS SHOW 2012-10-18T21:48:04Z But on her patently austere new album, Gaga’s music has never sounded more conservative, lightweight, unctuous or uncentered — it’s as if she’s gotten lost inside her truer, blander self. Lady Gaga’s ‘Joanne’: Where the freaks have no game 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The much more austere and dissonant Third, meanwhile, was one of his early ventures into "New Objectivity". Hindemith: String Quartets Nos 2 and 3 – review 2012-07-26T20:47:01Z The print demonstrates the austere formalism that might be expected from someone who studied at the Bauhaus, as Drewes did. In the galleries: Tension and beauty collide in Michael Sastre’s paintings 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z In The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he wedded that sincerity to a classically austere camera style that helped those early fables of bereavement weave canny spells over the mass audience. The Last Airbender: Worst Movie Epic Ever? 2010-07-01T19:50:00Z She conveyed these complex dramas with an austere economy of words, in slim books of winding sentences. Shirley Hazzard, Novelist Who Charted Storm-Tossed Lives, Dies at 85 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z I had wondered ahead of time if Ms. Leonard’s austere, allusive, intensely personal work would be able to cast its spell in the Whitney’s wide-open reaches. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Walking around the ground floor – a serenely austere interior made of little more than polished concrete and glass – natural light seeps everywhere. Turner Contemporary's boardwalk empire 2011-04-06T20:30:00Z At the far fringe was Neon Garden, offering the austere propulsion of techno and deep house. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field 2013-05-19T22:05:31Z After all, no act in current music, however austere is just “about the music.” Adele Turning Down the Super Bowl Halftime Show Proves She’s the Perfect Pop Star 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Her austere piano ballad, with Mr. West’s voice computer-tuned into a melody, gives way to a dirge driven by repeated hornlike notes. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z All those youthful images etched on his brain came in handy when he had to play Tintin on the nakedly austere white-and-grey stage set up for the computerized performance capture. AP Interview: Bell seeks to channel Tintin 2011-10-21T15:55:12Z It’s austere, charred, forsaken — and that ferocious sun certainly doesn’t help its case. 7 Days, 1,500 Miles in Namibia 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z It's oddly touching because it includes Nixon's birthplace - a small, austere clapboard Quaker farmhouse that his father built by hand. All the presidents' libraries 2010-10-26T10:00:00Z They're wild and austere, and backpacker Jack Goodman came to a sticky end on them in An American Werewolf in London. Five Reasons to Visit the North York Moors 2010-06-17T09:25:00Z They follow classic lines, already showing beautiful aromas of red fruit in some cases but austere and backward on the palate. Wine Review: Barolo 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Even as the Puritans were striving to build an austere theocracy in New England, they were defied by a character named Thomas Morton, whose Merry Mount colonists disported themselves in free-spirited revelry. ‘American Fun’: diligent worker bees vs. party animals 2014-04-02T23:33:12Z He later remembered this environment as a "very austere one with a philosophy of life, a rigid Protestantism, from which one cannot escape easily". William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z The pavilion will intersect the most architecturally sensitive part of the building — the austere 1941 building that housed the War Department before it moved to the Pentagon and was renamed the Department of Defense. A new front door opens up an insular enclave at State Department 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z On these wanderings his love for the Arab people and their austere landscape and culture grew, then deepened. The early years of the real Lawrence of Arabia 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z They aren’t austere and minimal, refusing all the frills that define female attire. Perspective | Dior was part of the patriarchy. Then she changed everything. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z They sprouted from Mason jars and vases, punctuating the austere, Shaker-like furniture in the sunny home that July, who is 37, shares with her husband, the filmmaker Mike Mills, who’s 45. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z Her still, dry Albee Hill bottling, with its deep, dark fruit, minerality and austere tannins is a classic. 6 heritage cider brands worth tasting 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Staff members and visitors often recite Cummings poems around the boxy, austere piece, at the end of long rows of bookshelves in the library. Antiques: Hunting for Windows in a House by Frank Lloyd Wright 2011-07-07T21:49:42Z It’s so interesting that while your work explores issues of race and religion, you also perform Trisha Brown’s dances, which are more austere explorations of space and time. A Choreographer Dances Out His Feelings About Race and Religion 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Grilling brings a kind of austere glory to Leña’s artichokes and asparagus, not to mention the superb lamb chops, fresh Ibérico pork and glorious botifarra sausages paired, following Catalan custom, with white beans. The 20 Most Delicious Things at Mercado Little Spain 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Stone had a privileged, if emotionally austere, upbringing at an east coast boarding school. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z “It disciplined him and gave him a sense of containment and appreciation for the austere. In metal shop, he made a camera out of a Coke bottle and piece of pipe.” This Time, Jim Jarmusch Is Kissing Vampires 2014-04-03T16:00:01Z A bright opening sees the ensemble in muted flesh tones against columns of austere black. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z The music is austere and formally inventive but gasp-out-loud creepy when treated like a midnight movie. Mica Levi strips back emotional layers in 'Under the Skin' score 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z What was fresh about Ms. De Keersmaeker’s work in 1983 was how this evocation came through the austere repetitions of Minimalism. ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ Revisits a Choreographer’s Early Work 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Hazard’s wall sculptures, on display at Adah Rose Gallery, are 3-D dioramas of torn or cut white paper inside austere wooden frames. Artist remakes useless stuff into, well, it’s anyone’s guess 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Cleaned and its original luminousness restored, this austere image, a trompe l’oeil “tour de force,” the blood seeming to trickle from Christ’s feet down to the edge of the picture, is vibrant with reformist zeal. Review: Bronzino Emerges From Limbo 2010-11-16T08:30:00Z In this role, she helped introduce elements of craft into the austere world of high art, which was then obsessed with minimalism. Remembering Miriam Schapiro: The unheralded legacy of a CalArts pioneer 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Lang captures the conflicted emotional currents of the story in his elusive, austere music. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Gray also has an austere streak, doling out starkly realistic stories that chart romantic disintegration or static grief. Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z "The whole thing is so austere — it starts with heaven and Earth and a single line between." says Beltrami. Hans Zimmer's 'Interstellar' music and other scores vie for Oscar 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Following the format of a sporting event, in which intermission felt more like halftime, “tournamento” has four dancers competing by performing austere, tough movement phrases as Ms. Michelson screeched, “Let’s play!” The Best Dance of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The wine is lively, fine and maybe too austere to drink alone, so serve it with ham, oysters or, as they do everywhere in Catalonia, with pan con tomate. 12 Summer Sparkling Wines, Because Who Needs a Reason 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z It lacks the austere grandeur of “All Is Lost,” the spiritual hoo-ha and digital gee-whizzery of “Life of Pi” and the technological bravura of “Gravity,” which it most resembles in terms of plot and mood. Review: Shailene Woodley Braves the Elements in ‘Adrift’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Raised in isolation within the austere confines of Prada Labs, each has a triangular Prada heart and a checkerboard patterned brain. Prada facing backlash over new holiday collection slammed online as 'racist': 'The devil really does wear Prada' 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Remnants of my grief return, even now, but the process of letting my husband go — which I made official in court the following year — began in that small austere single-bedded room. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z There's a real sense of, 'People don't want to be challenged too much in these austere times so let's put on something light and frothy'. Theatres make drama out of a crisis 2013-10-21T08:32:20Z Brook and Estienne confer on the proceedings an air of austere dignity, but that air never becomes stale. Review | The remarkable ‘Battlefield’ speaks softly, and profoundly 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z I knelt at the austere tomb in a niche inside the Pantheon where he was interred 37 years later. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Thorpe and Ms. Pijoulat’s one-room cabin was deemed too austere for most buyers, but it did change their thinking about what constitutes a comfortable home. The Upside of a Lockdown 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Happily, there’s nothing austere about Blue Pearl’s surroundings, a secluded compound that was once a Hells Angels chapter. T Magazine: Pacific Slim 2011-03-18T14:00:38Z "It's really a lot easier to get smaller," Butler says, unfurling a broad grin that almost magically transforms his face from gloomy and austere to movie-star handsome. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z The austere approach papers over the flaws of the sprawling, overdrawn story about villainous men and determined, winning women. Review | This ‘Color Purple’ may have won a Tony, but it’s cut to the bone 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Those who know him describe Mr. Rullier as an austere northerner. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z Takefumi Hori uses gold leaf, as well as its silver and copper counterparts, in ways that can appear both profligate and austere. In the galleries: Nature’s serenity 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Pompadour added symmetrical wings to both sides of the structure, opened up the interiors and replaced the austere furniture with a more contemporary style. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z The austere, velvet-lined Red Room is an expression of conventional, 19th-century middle-class life, sparsely decorated with family portraits, a piano and an oversize Bible that bear witness to the activities of Loti’s Protestant upbringing. | The Curious Case of Pierre Loti 2011-07-12T18:32:08Z Visually, the production is a perverse wonderland, at once austere and flamboyant, campy and menacing. 'An Invasion of Decency!': A wild pop-up performance in search of meaning 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The wine, grown on chalky soils, is intensely mineral and stony, almost austere, with fine saline and citrus flavors. Champagne Seeks to Discover Itself in Single-Vineyard Wines 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “Le Quattro Volte” at first looks almost like a parody of neo-Realism, as it follows an elderly goatherd through his austere, unvarying daily routines. Film: All Creatures Great and Lizardy, and Humans, Too 2011-03-18T21:35:47Z It’s a wonderful thing, austere and restrained, yet patterns all the way down. Duro Olowu Excavates Pattern at the Cooper Hewitt 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Katy B made a familiar mistake: embracing the idea that to be taken seriously outside the nightclub meant making her sound more austere, more performed, as opposed to just played. Music Review: Katy B Plays the Studio at Webster Hall - Review 2011-09-15T23:02:21Z “Calls From the Fog” was more austere, starting with a plangent voice from the flutist Roy Amotz that was answered by an echoing electronic drone. Music Review: Meitar Ensemble at Roulette 2013-04-19T21:24:58Z A stark, white-tiled space with an austere, industrial feel — warmed up only slightly with artwork featuring Key West elements such as a watercolor of a green parrot. In Old Town Key West, a Hotel with Artsy Aspirations 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z As I knew from having read her most autobiographical works, Colette’s sensibility, by turns tender and sharp, sensual and austere, had been born and nurtured here, in this house and in this village. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z In structure and tone, “Moonlight” sets itself against the earnest, austere naturalism that has become a default setting for movies about social misery. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z "For the folks who complain about mid-century design being too austere, a conversation pit is the perfect solution. It maintains the clean lines of mid-century modernism with its geometry, but it's also downright cozy." Conversation pits could make a comeback - here's what's sparking interest in the retro design 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Now, as a film critic, I find writing about stately, austere films difficult. Riff: Eating Your Cultural Vegetables 2011-05-01T07:43:01Z But Mr. Geyrhalter’s method is more austere, and the effect produced is subtly different. Review: Empty Spaces Show the Imprint of Humanity in ‘Homo Sapiens’ 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The writing duo's reboot of the format, written for ITV this time, will also aim to chronicle the age by charting the characters' survival as middle-aged women in a much more austere Britain. The secret of Birds of a Feather: why female friendship is the key to sitcom success 2013-06-29T11:35:14Z While calling to mind the work of Lucinda Childs, her style of repetition was less coolly austere, more sumptuous and brazen. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Youthful Dances Get a Youthful Jolt 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The latest, on Wednesday night at the Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes, was in an acoustic setting closer to the vaulted stone churches for which this austere music was intended. Sounds from old Europe return to Washington 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The effect is simultaneously austere and luxurious, minimalist and opulent, a combination of the ancient and the modern, meditations on accumulation and transience. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z He was motivated by many things: religious faith, love of the old masters, a striking interest in science and his passion for the austere landscape and shorelines of his beloved Catalonia. Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dal? of Constant Ambition 2010-09-02T21:32:00Z The Piano Variations is more austere than the concerto, drained of its jazziness. Asking Whether Copland’s Abstruse Works are the Exception or the Rule 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z With Britain still recovering from the war, the wedding offered a rare burst of color and pageantry against an austere background of rationing and shortages. Going strong after 70 years: UK's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrate platinum anniversary 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z While the a cappella work is austere compared to the lush Romanticism of his virtuoso piano works, the setting of traditional texts from the canonical hours of the Russian Orthodox Church is still plenty decadent. Music Review: Clarion Choir in Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-01-02T22:39:23Z She wanted something more austere than the clay or ceramic options she had seen, with “clean, symmetrical and sharp lines.” Long a Foundational Material, Concrete Is Now a Finishing Touch 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The first two of three sections include gold jewelry, formally austere pottery, glassware and other objects excavated from mound shaped, earth-covered tombs in the city of Gyeongju. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:13:41Z As pantos across the land ramp up the contrast, volume and colour, the Christmas show at the Citz is refreshingly austere. 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