Austere in a sentence as an adjective

I can understand why you'd say poorly designed, because the tradition it comes out of is so austere.

I love how so many of the most distinguished names in computer science have absolutely austere websites.

Vipassana is a pretty austere form of meditation.

Living like an austere hermit isn't the way to do that in NYC, where so much of the scene revolves around putting expensive things in your mouth in front of other people.

IOS and Mac OS both have a penchant for faux-realism and pastiche which always seems strangely incongruous with the austere industrial design.

A whimsical yet austere post, heavy on the bombast but with hints of compassion and, for the discerning reader, notes of plaintive wishfulness, with a bitter yet wholesome finish.

Another explanation for color choices - the austere Jobs is no longer at the helm, it's Tim Cook, and Tim clearly wants to steer Apple into the fashion market - he recently hired many top execs from fashionable brands.

From a Time Magazine story from 2007: The iPhone is a typical piece of Ive design: an\n austere, abstract, platonic-looking form that\n somehow also manages to feel warm and organic and\n ergonomic.

Operators with experience working under austere conditions could provide a lot of value to an organization with a comparatively limited budget.

It is literally just what I wanted from a Linux distro: the dead simplicity and austere Unix-ness of Slackware combined with the up-to-the-minute-ness and easy source package integration of Gentoo.

*“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.” -Bertrand Russell

Austere definitions

adjective

severely simple; "a stark interior"

See also: severe stark stern

adjective

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

See also: stern

adjective

practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"

See also: ascetic ascetical spartan