Sentence example with the word 'austerity'

austerity

abstinence, carefulness, exiguity, harshness, meagerness, paltriness, prudential administration, scrawniness, smallness, thriftiness, unwastefulness

Definition n. the trait of great self-denial

Last update: October 28, 2015


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The austerity of Government's economic measures did not please the industrial organizations.   [Please select]

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"If I accept," said I, with the austerity he deserved.   [Please select]

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Although some of his quatrains are purely mystic and pantheistic, most of them bear quite another stamp; they are the breviary of a radical freethinker, who protests in the most forcible manner both against the narrowness, bigotry and uncompromising austerity of the orthodox ulema and the eccentricity, hypocrisy and wild ravings of advanced Sufis, whom he successfully combats with their own weapons, using the whole mystic terminology simply to ridicule mysticism itself.   [Please select]

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The calmness of her austerity made emotion seem shallow.   [Please select]

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But now another fire seemed lit within her, and she found herself marvelling at such austerity.   [Please select]

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Her natural kindness was somewhat concealed by slight austerity of manner.   [Please select]

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There was in Cato’s austerity more ostentation than real virtue.   [Please select]

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His laughter shocked the austerity of that same jack-pudding.   [Please select]

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He made his profession at the Dominican convent in Valladolid, where he lived in great austerity.   [Please select]

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"As I said," repeated Glure with cold austerity, "it's not a matter for argument."   [Please select]

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It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity.   [Please select]

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