Sentence examples for less sternly from inspiring English sources
There are many societies in which marriage is considered a less-permanent arrangement and in which extramarital sex is less sternly condemned.
And if that seems less than sternly judicial, Judge López Torres does not give a hoot.
His music resembled bop in its brisk variations on standard themes, but was less rhythmically volatile and more sternly obsessed with pure improvisation.
"This company does not point fingers," he said, sternly, hinting that a less scrupulous C.E.O.
The sternly moral more-or-less Leavisite reading that we were taught aspired to an Olympian dispassion, approaching books like scripture (as I still more-or-less do).
Both, Wood points out, use a kind of stream-of-consciousness which owes something to Joyce, but not as sternly; they are friendlier than that, demand less marvelling at the technique.
Joe Jackson sternly keeps his youngest son tethered to his less talented brothers.
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No less chastening was the experience of watching Matt Drudge, in conversation with Brian Lamb the same day, sternly criticize Fox for cutting off the final moments of the Bush news conference for Paris Hilton's reality series.
In Moscow, no less an authority than Slava Fetisov, the former Soviet and Detroit Red Wings star, would tell me sternly that "Jagr was no P.R. gamble, no marketing decoration".
"No," he replied sternly.
