Sentence examples for not sternly from inspiring English sources

"I will not let that go by," Callas says, not sternly but insisting on musical and vocal integrity.

They also said that the letter, painstakingly composed with a sensitivity to public opinion in the United States, did not sternly admonish American bishops for their most aggressive remedies.

I have met many couples where the partner will not sternly tell the other that they cannot drink or do drugs, as they feel they have nowhere to talk, since they use something themselves.

As far as Wallace knows, there was no discernible reaction, conceivably because he hadn't sternly rebuked the evening news for not coming clean about whatever it was that it was doubtless trying to conceal from him.

Chief Inspector Hales is also hard to read and perhaps not as sternly by-the-book as she projects.

"I'm getting on that bus/ Got to get out of town," he sings, not very sternly, on "Vacation," one of his earliest songs, dating back all of 12 months.

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.

I have followed the Derby since 1994 and can't remember a year when I haven't been sternly informed that the race is in inexorable decline.

At the exit, she said sternly, "Not once this entire time have you all been together".

"You smile from the face only," she said sternly, not smiling at all.

"They were not," journalists were sternly informed, "campaigning as a couple".