Sentence examples for can be stern from inspiring English sources
Though he can be stern, he sometimes displays a dry sense of humor.
She can be stern or she can try to laugh it off.
Lowell, who can be stern and opinionated on the subject of his brother's life, is quoted in "Sing Me Back Home" as remembering Merle's return to Bakersfield with uncharacteristic tenderness: "He stepped down off the bus carrying his guitar.
The tone can be stern, as when he describes the threat to religious liberty he sees in the government's taking government contracts away from Catholic charities for refusing to offer adoption services to same-sex couples.
Reconstructing Hepburn as a kind of fragile monster, he explains things in a voice that can be stern and fussy (he relishes correcting past biographers mistakes) and on occasion so solemn as to seem comical: That the sophisticated circle surrounding Cukor was largely gay cannot be denied.
The author seems to have searched for negatives, but the best she could come up with are these points: Michelle can be stern and pushy.
Chablis, especially young Chablis, can be stark, stern and austere — steely is a common description — with flavors and aromas that do not connote lavish cornucopias of tropical fruit.
The Hayward can be a stern critic.
Mary Poppins can be a stern moralist, a hectoring heir to the Puritans, a caricature of the overbearing adult with no patience for fantasy.
Like the younger television evangelist James Robison, he can put on a threatening display; but also — and better than most media-cool personalities — he can be the stern but genial and caring father.
