Sentence examples for seemed severe on from inspiring English sources

He seemed severe – on my first day I gave him a friendly smile and he looked back as if I'd tried to punch him in the throat – but in conversation it turned out that a raucous laugh frequently breaks through his stoic expression.

Twelve months seemed severe compared with decisions handed down on charges that were much graver.

The problem seems severe.

It seems severe.

"It doesn't seem severe," Piazza said.

Think clean, polished, and elegant, without seeming severe.

This may seem severe.

These symptoms, which continued throughout the workday and improved once he left work, seemed especially severe on the first day of the workweek and worsened as the week progressed.

As she read, she suspected that her symptoms seemed on the severe end of the spectrum.

"That lack of space should preclude us from hearing another course from him during the winter would seem a severe reflection on the organising ability of the Camp as a whole," the editors grimly scold their readership.

However, the current mercury pollution seems sufficiently severe to cause adverse effects on brain development.