Sentence examples for a stern gaze from inspiring English sources

A stern gaze.

"We have your promise, man-to-man, that you won't go ashore, right?" one official asked, with a stern gaze, adding a warning about sharks circling the islands.

He fixed me with a stern gaze and tapped the end of his nose with a crooked finger: "I see you on the bike, boy," he said.

Yet at 71, he looks uncannily the same as he did at 45, the same firm features, the same ability to switch from an open smile to a stern gaze.

Then there are images that gain a certain exotic charm and humour because they focus on the discrepancies, on the extreme tensions within Iranian society - young girls looking like Vogue models posing under a larger-than-life poster of an ayatollah; a disco thriving under the stern gaze of a pulpit.

She had a high hairdo and the stern gaze of a hanging judge.

No drone, however inquisitive, and no glances, however loaded, between blood relations can rival the stern gaze of a theocratic state.

Beneath the stern gaze of a statue of Genghis Khan in Ulan Baator's central square, Mongolians celebrated Mr. Elbegdorj's victory and breathed a sigh of relief for the election's peaceful resolution.

A brief audience with the telescope — under the stern gaze of Dr. Strano — gives you an idea of how hard it must have been for Galileo to be Galileo.

Instead of opening with the usual merry 1870s carnival scene, with Julie falling under Billy's spell, Mr. Ruggiero begins earlier in the day, with the sound of clattering machinery and a tableau of Julie, her friend Carrie Pipperidge and other young women operating an unseen industrial loom under the stern gaze of the boss.

Early Christian and Buddhist murals, for example, portrayed an all-powerful, remote, and mysterious being, painted as a flat, formalized head or figure whose stern gaze dominated the interiors of temples, churches, and sanctuaries.