It is austerely beautiful, like most everything else in these lovely shows.

Finally, though, it is Mr. Haitink's austerely beautiful, quietly ominous conducting that drives the performance.

Behind the hotel, the mountains rose in austerely beautiful peaks - the highest to 1,660 feet - and in late October even that was free of snow.

Instead, as much as through her voice, the story is told through her austerely beautiful face and hands.

Robert Silverberg described it as "a strange and austerely beautiful fable that cuts across genre lines."

Let the Right One In is one of those films - an austerely beautiful creation that reveals itself slowly, like the best works of art do.

After hearing Varèse's austerely beautiful Integrales, one girl wrote: "It was all about sound.

She sat back on her heels to laugh up into Celia's austerely beautiful face.

"Reversibility felt like an austerely beautiful thing," Dr. Bennett said.

Austerely beautiful and glowing with subtle colors one moment, the landscape can quickly hunker down under a dark blanket of clouds in what seems like hostile mockery.