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Meanings of too austere in English

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Usage of too austere in English
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There's Warden; but he is too austere and harsh, good as he is.
Brought Home
2
If the mind is too austere, cultivate a sense of humor.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
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Surely it's still a step too austere for domestic settings?
The Irish Times
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But her view of truth was too austere for this.
The Reconciliation of Races and Religions
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The oba is too austere a ruler for such things.
The nomad
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Plenty others find its stripped-down aesthetic a little too austere.
The Irish Times
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Two days elapsed, then Leslie received a second communication too austere to be disregarded.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
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Their style was too austere, their versification too harsh.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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Some (not me) might find Grafton's style too austere.
The Guardian
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Italian wines are food wines, it's often claimed - a little too austere to guzzle on their own.
The Irish Times
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If Boileau was too austere to admit the pliability of grace, he compensates by good sense and propriety.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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His life became too austere for his brother monks, and they compelled him to leave this aristocratic abbey.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07: Great Women
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The New Yorker, September 13, 1930 P. 17 The present ones are too austere.
The new yorker
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The laws of the convent are not too austere to prevent the interview she seeks in such a case.
The Parisians — Volume 12
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In point of fact, no book seemed to him too austere or too repellent or too obscure for his youthful understanding.
Honoré de Balzac
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One detects a hint, indeed, that for many the formalities of protocol were a little strange and a good deal too austere.
The Guardian
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