Sentence examples for look sternly from inspiring English sources

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"He'll produce volumes of statistics showing he's right, and look sternly over his glasses until they cave in".

As Antony dresses, the couple laugh and fumble cupidinously; they kiss passionately for a full minute as the music — Bob Dylan singing "Not Dark Yet" — surrounds them, and Antony's advisers look sternly on.

It's hard for a politician to resist a setting where he can look sternly into the camera and say to a disgraced accountant -- as Representative James Greenwood did to the fired Andersen partner David Duncan -- "Enron robbed the bank, Arthur Andersen provided the getaway car, and they say you were at the wheel".

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He looked sternly at the crowd.

Then he looks, sternly, straight into the camera.

It shows a middle-aged man looking sternly out at the viewer.

She looked sternly at Nadia, nodded in assent, and went back to her phone.

He looks sternly at my hiking boots and combat trousers and warns: "Adventure on horseback is for real riders".

Mr. Romney looked sternly toward Mr. Brownback and denounced the calls.

Mr. Bush looked sternly at Mr. Kerry and motioned that he wanted a chance to respond.

The body language during the Oval Office photo session was stiff, as Mr. Clinton looked sternly ahead.

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