Austere

Ms. Eichler had a notorious reputation for being austere to her students.

The Treasurer is being accused of robbing Peter to pay Paul to fund his austere budget.

Austere economic policies have significantly affected economic performance.

The president has promised a more austere administration than that of his predecessor.

The Wadden Sea is a landscape of austere beauty.

The headmistress was an austere old woman.

Even the austere philosopher Immanuel Kant of Koenigsberg, it is said, whose habits were so regular that the citizens of that town set their watches by him, postponed the hour of his afternoon stroll when he received the news [of the fall of the Bastille], thus convincing Koenigsberg that a world-shaking event had indeed happened.

The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.

So we come, at above street level, into the city, and to Canterbury East Station (9.8 miles). It is an austere, rather barn-like structure, with a high roof over the two platforms.

Counterintuitively, in an effort to be austere and save money, cities which only remove a crossing every couple of years manage to be way less efficient at it than Melbourne has been.