Sentence examples for A bit severe from inspiring English sources

In his portrait by Rubens he looks alert, bright, a bit severe.

Considering that your sister-in-law was married for 15 years, "cohabiter du jour" is a bit severe.

"For some people, my work is a bit severe," he admits, "but the materials make it lively".

The couturier Philippe Venet, who trained with Balenciaga, described him as seeming "a bit severe — he was very rigorous".

The upper floors are a bit severe, but the ground floor could be that of a Fifth Avenue mansion.

Somewhat heavy features and owlish eyes, magnified enormously by thick lenses, which he has worn since boyhood, can make him appear a bit severe, and at times even forbidding, but that impression is immediately dispelled by his open, toothy, and utterly ingenuous smile.

Adjusted for inflation, and using 12-month periods, the maximum decline was 11.4 percent, just a bit more severe than the 11.3 percent fall recorded in the double-dip recessions of the early 1980s.

He transformed the apartment's architecture from what he called "sweetly traditional" to "30's or 40's glam" by replacing the old moldings with something a bit more severe, laying down a dark mahogany floor to contrast with the pale walls and enlarging the doorway into the living room to exaggerate the room's scale.

I've just had some that are a bit more severe than others".

"Sunday could be the last of the really big storms and it may just be a notch down - a bit less severe," spokeswoman Helen Chivers told BBC News.

The incident is vaguely reminiscent of TechCrunch editor Sarah Lacy's recent baboon attack in Rwanda, although in Siebel's case the consequences were a bit more severe than a psychological trauma.