Sentence examples for a rather stern from inspiring English sources

Her first efforts resulted in a rather stern likeness.

There's a certain spare poetry in those six words, albeit of a rather stern sort.

Some German riesling has a rather stern core, but not this one: it's incredibly calm.

"No fish in here," he told me in a rather stern British accent.

The team's ambition was expressed, above all, as a rather stern negative: the Dodo Expedition was not prospecting for dodos.

He asks her to forgive him, for he is worried—his father has left him a rather stern note.

The statue is an imposing, 15-foot-tall, 22-ton bronze of a rather stern-looking Shinran Shonin, the 13th-century Japanese founder of the Jodoshinshu sect of Buddhism.

One couple have acquired 12 acres in Somerset; a woman is awaiting delivery of several sheep on her five-acre plot in Wiltshire; a rather stern-looking military man is looking for a plot to buy in south Wales.

The shrewd managers look around for bargains and they think there are bargains abroad and that isn't necessarily so". Manchester United dominate the back page of the Daily Mirror, with a photo of a rather stern-looking Radamel Falcao en route to Old Trafford and news of England striker Danny Welbeck's exit to Arsenal.

I asked the rather stern looking monk for a blessing and after reciting a few prayers, Akhyuk Rinpoche reached towards his chest and pulled from his bare skin a ringsel, a kind of pearl-like relic that is often found in cremation pyres of saints.

His face being rather stern, I expected a homily of some sort, but I was quite wrong.