Sentence examples for a set of stern from inspiring English sources

Freud, the Viennese Jewish patriarch, imagined the start of symbolic order as a set of stern self-denials: early man (and he did mean man) wanted to urinate on the campfire, Freud said, but he decided not to, and what we got instead is civilization.

A well-respected essayist, a proper novelist and a budding popular historian moved in, and the room acquired a certificate of incorporation as a non-profit arts organisation, a set of stern rules (don't be loud, don't be messy, don't interrupt) and a growing list of published books, screenplays, television series and essays.

Its title borrowed from Moholy-Nagy, the book set out a series of stern foundational principles for good design: the use of sans-serif fonts, standardised paper sizes, photographs rather than drawn illustrations, asymmetrical rather than centred layouts.

She is an ideological innocent, a superheroic Candide who obeys a stern set of values and looks for the best in everyone.

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Still, a kind of stern traditionalism undergirds the story.

Preceding it are a couple of stern and unusual injunctions.

White waded in with a series of stern responses.

"The forged diaries are a part of Stern's history," Dominik Wichmann, Stern's editor in chief, said in the statement on Tuesday.

Many pianists play this introduction with a touch of stern Baroque rigor.

Hancock was also a man of stern views and wild ideas.