Sentence examples for looking severe from inspiring English sources
Looking severe in his stereotypical Mao uniform and dark glasses, he stands before monuments, historic sites or roadside attractions -- the United States Capitol, a white Congregational church, an elephant in an amusement park -- which he encountered in his world travels.
In winter, he said, the serifs made the typeface look severe.
"It makes you look severe and beyond the reach of critics".
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".
It doesn't look severe enough to force him out of the game but it's clearly a concern.
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.
Of the early days of her collaboration with Mr. Colo, she said: "Colo was making wound paintings when I first visited his studio; he slashed his canvases and then sewed them back together so they looked severe.
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.
