Except for the mat, the atmosphere is fairly austere and clinical, and that's where we'll work.

He was able to get Congress to pass a fairly austere budget, by the standards of the time, that was not much different from what he proposed.

Besides, Mr. Bennett leads a fairly austere life for a celebrity.

Clad in black plastic and featuring music buttons on the front, the 3125 is fairly austere.

Korolev was rarely known to drink vodka or other alcoholic beverages, and chose to live a fairly austere lifestyle.

The base was fairly austere as it had suffered considerable war-damage from Desert Storm.

But the atmosphere of the book is fairly austere, and we never see happy kemmerers, except briefly in the hearth-tales.

"It could be a fairly austere year from a government-spending point of view," Mr. Gerding said.

The interior of the Curia Julia is fairly austere.

The lobby for all of its grandeur, ceilings of nearly 700 feet, was a fairly austere experience.