Sentence examples for how sternly from inspiring English sources

For example, the teams are grappling with the problem that over time, people can change how sternly or leniently they rate movies.

In the last two years Iran's nuclear program has moved up on the agenda for the United States and Europe, but there has been a gulf over how sternly to deal with it.

But it shows how assiduously Jarman's father, born in New Zealand, built a career as a British officer—and how sternly he treated his arty son.Close to his mother, alienated from his father, Jarman was sent away to boarding school where he was once, traumatically, caught in bed with another boy.

Cathy is not an insurgent soul, and Moore respects that; compare her with the Annette Bening character in "American Beauty," and you realize how sternly Bening was nudged, by the sardonic comedy of that movie, toward the brink of a cartoon.

His material wasn't exactly gaily frolicking before – the waveform of Flesh and Blood gives you some idea of how sternly minimal his music is even before listening to it – but he's now phased out even more of his mojo, with this track made up of a tiny handful of elements.

If we're to judge black candidates on their most controversial associates — and how quickly, sternly and completely they disown them — we must judge white politicians by the same yardstick.

There will be yelling tonight about how loudly or sternly we are or should be speaking to Them.

He warned sternly how expensive renewables are, like Osborne, but was simultaneously "passionate" about the vital importance of growing renewable energy, like Clegg.

K: (Sternly) How long have you been self-administering?

"How", the rich demanded sternly, "can you think of distributing what has not been earned?

No figure's faith or inherent goodness is taken entirely for granted, least of all in the case of Moses himself, sternly played (how else?) by Christian Bale.