Sentence examples for look severe from inspiring English sources
In winter, he said, the serifs made the typeface look severe.
"It makes you look severe and beyond the reach of critics".
It doesn't look severe enough to force him out of the game but it's clearly a concern.
Dangin thought the model's face was too "crunchy" (meaning that the contrast was high, making her look severe); Demarchelier wanted the denim — a pair of white bell-bottoms — to pop.
The deputy sheriffs, all white men, except for one young woman, perhaps Filipino, who was trying to look severe but looked terrified, had black truncheons in their gloved hands that reporters later called batons and that were known, in the movies of my childhood, as billy clubs.
Foxconn is reporting two casualties and 16 hurt and the damage does look severe and quite thorough.
It looked severe, and, even for a dessert, seemed like a slog.
"Using force always looks severe but is necessary to arrest a culprit who resists".
A Gothic effect, the narrow shoulder turned aside, the plain, black, high-necked blouse; governess, or dowager, she looked severe to them.
She is a bookkeeper, and with her glossy black hair, black sweater and gold rings, looks severe and prosperous beside Stanja Radovanovic, who is 44 and in a coat that matches her flyaway gray hair.
